Volunteer Centre of Camrose & District
Our vision:
Passionate citizens participating in vibrant and welcoming communities.
Our mission:
Grow strong communities through leadership in volunteerism.
Our operations stem from four main goals:
- Promote volunteerism.
- Build capacity for effective location volunteering.
- Provide leadership on issues relating to volunteerism.
- Connect people with opportunities to serve.
Public Policy Stand:
December 2008 - We urge federal government to maintain existing funding to the not-for-profit sector and to consider implementing short-term tax incentives that would assist the sector to maintain service levels through recessionary times. Read more.
Major Funder:
Community Partners:
- Legal Resource Centre of Alberta
- Camrose County
- City of Camrose
- Village of Bawlf
- Village of Bittern Lake
- Village of Edberg
- Village of Ferintosh
- Village of Hay Lakes
- Village of New Norway
- Village of Rosalind
Project Sponsors:
- Camrose Canadian
- Volunteer Alberta
- Battle River School Division
- The Bethany Group
- Alberta 4-H
- Windwood Group
- Rotary Club of Camrose
What is the Volunteer Centre of Camrose and District?
- A community connector of people with opportunities, organizations with people, media and government with information.
- An organization that that strengthens volunteerism throughout our community.
- A provider of, and connector with, education and training opportunities on volunteer sector issues.
- A member of Volunteer Alberta and Volunteer Canada.
Services to Community:
- Online Clubs and Organizations Directory. See the navigation bar on our home page.
Services for volunteers:
- Current information about volunteer opportunities in our service area.
- Assistance with finding the right volunteer position.
- Opportunities for youth through such programs as Leaders of Tomorrow Awards.
- Local promotion of community involvement during National Volunteer Week and at community-based events.
- Website with current database of volunteer opportunities.
Services for organizations:
- Training and networking opportunities.
- A voice for shared issues.
- Access to the Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations.
- Recruitment and referral of volunteers.
- Website for convenient posting of volunteer positions and access to current local sector information.
- Print media advertising for volunteer needs.
- Coordination of National Volunteer Week activities.
- Members’ library.
- Connection to information about the voluntary sector locally, provincially and nationally
Privacy Policy
Information on this website is used to provide information to the public about our community organizations.
WhyVolunteer logs http requests to our server. These logs captures information such your domain name or IP address, which may identify you depending on the naming standards followed by your Internet service provider. You may wish to ask them about their policies and practices.
While we will not attempt to link information captured to the identity of individuals, the information captured provides the Volunteer Centre of Camrose and District with your IP address, the type of browser you use, your date of visit to our site and the pages you browse.
We use this information to track our site usage, in order that we can continue to improve the content, navigation and overall value of the website.
Visitor information is not disclosed to anyone except representatives of the Volunteer Centre of Camrose and District who play a key role in our website development and maintenance.
Use of the features of this web site for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, reproducing and storing in a retrieval system by any means, electronic or mechanical; or using the addresses or other information contained in this directory for any private, commercial, or political mailing, is strictly prohibited.
This site shall not be used in any manner prohibited by law or disallowed by licenses, contracts, copyrights or policies and regulations of the Volunteer Centre of Camrose and District. If you have any questions about the collection or use of this information please contact the Volunteer Centre of Camrose and District at (780) 672-0141.
