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Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick
Building a stronger community
Happy National Volunteer Week 2024!
This week is the time to acknowledge and recognize all volunteers! Our community volunteers are always there volunteering with programs and projects usually helping someone in need! Thank you for your tireless effort and commitment as it is greatly appreciated! And like our National Theme this year ‘Every Moment Matters’ and you do make a difference!
Thank you to all of you!
Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator | Volunteer Centre SENB
The event was “LIVE” on our Facebook page. Click here to watch.
Who We Are
The Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. is a registered charitable organization. Through the promotion of volunteering, the center supports over 150 registered not-for-profit agencies/organizations from the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview areas by responding to requests for recruitment community volunteers.
Our commitment
- Deliver creative solutions to serve the needs of the community.
- Promote volunteering, coordinate resources and people…
We are hiring !
“I’m feeling good at the legacy of the building we helped to create, dedicated to the community as a wonderful space to welcome newcomers and our new location a peaceful spot to focus on creating opportunities for citizens to give back to the community”. Our work continues!
The Volunteer Centre Administration Staff moved to their new office
on Monday, September 11th
located at 795 Main Street, Suite 301.
upcoming community events
Early Years Family Navigator Early Years Family Navigators are available to guide parents and caregivers of young children (birth to school entry) to community resources to support their family, specifically the child’s early learning and development, such as:
- connection to programs and services (Family Resource Centre, Talk with Me, Family and Early Childhood, etc.) • childcare/school registration (Child Care Connect NB, Anglophone East), • health needs (NB Patient Connect, developmental screening, direction after diagnosis), • basic needs including food insecurity, transportation, and housing,
- mental health supports (therapy, support groups, and crisis lines), • funding for various needs (recreational, childcare, government benefits, social supports, family emergency etc.),
- support to newcomers (Multicultural Associations, sharing knowledge of local programs and services).
Families can contact Natalie by phone or email, and she will provide recommendations and offer a follow up within a week to ensure the program or service recommended meets the needs of the family.
Natalie Leslie : Early Years Family Navigator
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood Services / Anglophone East
Riverview Middle School
45 Devere Road, Riverview, NB, E1B 2M4
Phone: 506.869-7197 Email: eyfn.asde@gnb.ca
Follow us on Facebook : www.facebook.com/EverythingEarlyYears
Website: https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/early-years-family-navigators.html
Kim Halliday Memorial Community Mentorship Scholarship Award
(A division of the Ron Smyth Memorial Scholarship)
Content has been moved to https://volunteergreatermoncton.com/kim-halliday-memorial-community-mentorship-scholarship-award/
International Volunteer Day (IVD)
International Volunteer Day (IVD) a global celebration of volunteers. It takes place every year on December 5 to shine a light on the impact of volunteer efforts everywhere.
Volunteers are leading social change around the world. This special day promotes the work of volunteers at all levels, including local, national and international.
This year, the UN marks IVD by recognizing the power of collective action: if everyone did.
If everyone volunteered, the world would be a better place. Imagine more than eight billion of us volunteering. Limitless possibilities for sustainable development – food and education for everyone, clean environment and good health, inclusive and peaceful societies, and more. Volunteerism is an enormous renewable resource for social, economic and environmental problem-solving throughout the world. As the world faces mounting challenges, volunteers are often the first to help. Volunteers are at the fore in crisis and emergencies, often in very testing and dire situations.
For more information, please visit the United Nations Volunteers website.
Volunteer Strategy
volunteerstrategy.ca
Online survey
highlights
Volunteering is rewarding.
You can:
- Learn more about the community and what it has to offer
- Create practical work experience
- Enjoy the feeling of making a contribution
- Meet people and build new relationships
“ Volunteer Drivers Urgently Needed for Dialysis Clients “
Volunteer Drivers are urgently needed to transport some of our clients for dialysis appointments. These clients living in the rural area have no other means of finding transportation and depend on our service. We are in urgent need of volunteer drivers from the following areas: Shediac {2 clients}, Murray Corner {1}, Cap Pele {1}, Petitcodiac {1}, Havelock {1}, Riverside Albert {1}. If you live in one of these areas and can give us a few hours a week to help us out in this urgent situation please contact our Ride Coordinator at 962-3073 or urbanruralrides@gmail.com. All volunteers drivers are reimbursed at 0.46/km from their home and return.
May 2024
June 2024
ICE 2 Run (I Care Enough) | The Salvation Army
ICE 2 Run (I Care Enough) | The Salvation Army
Through the promotion of volunteering, the Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. supports over 150 registered not-for-profit agencies/organizations from the Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview areas by responding to requests for recruitment community volunteers.
Non profit agencies, are invited to register. Fill out the Agency registration form
If you are a registered agency needing volunteers, fill out the Agency request for volunteers form
VOLUNTEER WEEK Greater Moncton Non-Profit Organizations
Nationally this is the week that we thank and pay tribute to all of Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers!
VOLUNTEER WEEK 2023: April 16th-22
“ The #beccatoldmeto Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award “
The #beccatoldmeto Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award was created in honour of Becca Schofield as her #Beccatoldmeto acts of kindness has inspired so many young individuals to make a difference in our community.
Striving to be a role model for agencies/organizations engaging volunteers, the Volunteer Centre of Southeastern New Brunswick Inc. coordinates and/or assists with workshops and training sessions for volunteers and agencies and organizations utilizing volunteers. The “Centre” also serves as an information and consultation service to the community-at-large.
Your charitable donation is your way of saying: “Yes, Volunteers are essential to the quality of our community!” Charitable tax receipts are available with any financial donation. You can donate online.
A Place to Learn & Grow
Upcoming Training Sessions
VMPNB information
and more
Posted on our Facebook page
Tri-Community Volunteer Promotion Campaign!
Dieppe/Moncton/Riverview
Pick your own way to help out in your community or let us help you find meaningful volunteering right for you! We are asking every volunteer in our community to help us in promoting ‘helping out by volunteering’!
By proudly displaying a sticker on your rear car window or on the front door of your home or office others will learn how they can volunteer too in our great community.
Volunteers are the heart of our community! Sign up to get your sticker now! Stickers can be mailed to you or can be picked up at Volunteer Centre office at 795 Main Street, Suite 301, Moncton.
Note: a confirmed time for pick up has to be scheduled by contacting Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator at 869-6905 or email at d.leblanc@volunteergreatermoncton.com.
Volunteer Centres: An Untapped Resource
We’re writing this letter, signed by aligned Volunteer Centres in a robust network across the country, to speak up on how meaningful volunteerism is enabled.
An Open Letter from Volunteer Centres Across Canada
Canadians volunteer more than anywhere else in the world. Every year, nearly 13 million individuals contribute time to an organization in their community, and during the COVID-19 pandemic hundreds of thousands more have stepped up to deliver services to those most vulnerable. While it’s clear that volunteerism is a powerful characteristic of Canadian identity, the role of Volunteer Centres—the vibrant network of 200+ agencies whose role it is to facilitate this extraordinary exchange—is far from understood, or worse yet, has been ignored. In recent weeks, we have been reminded that, in many instances, governments, funders, and even some non-profit leaders, fail to recognize the skill, resources, and infrastructure required to keep volunteers engaged and our social services afloat.
Notwithstanding a crisis, every single Canadian benefits fr om volunteer contributions because of their presence in our social fabric. Even more importantly, volunteers ensure our country’s most vulnerable community members are not left behind. This has been true for decades. The time and skill volunteers dedicate increase our country’s capacity in hospitals, shelters, food banks, schools, festivals, community sport, among others, that if paid, would exceed more than 50 billion dollars every year.
But volunteerism is more than human capacity, and what makes volunteerism truly meaningful is that the exchange is not one-way. When a volunteer gives their time, they in turn gain empathy, understanding, and access to skills or human assets. It is this two-way relationship, enabled by skilled volunteer engagers, that makes volunteerism a meaningful, and ethical exchange of labour. Without an understanding of this important social contract, we stand to drift from volunteerism as a truly democratic function of our society.
Local, community-based Volunteer Centres across the country have built connections between non-profits and volunteer seekers from every demographic. We continue to hold an essential recruitment role that enables volunteers to find the opportunities they are looking for and organizations find the volunteers they need.
We also do so much more.
More than ever, Canada’s 170,000 non-profit and charitable organizations have turned to Volunteer Centres for answers during the COVID-19 crisis. As organizations with decades of experience, we know that it takes expertise to respond quickly and effectively to recruit, train, and manage volunteers to serve clients safely. And what’s more, we know how to leverage the skills and interest of volunteers to build meaningful roles that grow personal experience, and therefore, economic and social opportunity.
While some governments spent time, energy and money in building new structures and mechanisms to recruit and deploy volunteers at national and provincial levels, local community based Volunteer Centres have been on the front-lines in realigning their existing resources; providing training and supports for volunteer engagement; coordinating recovery efforts; and pulling together diverse partners to meet identified needs – most often without additional financial or human resources.
We have ensured that volunteering has continued to serve a vital role in our community, despite the fact that two out of thr ee charities and non-profit organizations have lost more than 30% of the revenue that allow them to deliver regular, necessary services.
As we move to a post-pandemic world, the role of locally-based Volunteer Centres is more important than ever. In an anticipated time of high government debt, limited resources, and greater community needs, the expertise of Volunteer Centres must be harnessed to ensure that we uphold the integrity of volunteerism that underpins our vibrant, and diverse society.
We’re up to the challenge.
Signatories (Central)
1. Alliance des CAB de la ville de Québec (CABQ, CABC et Cab Aide23) - Québec, QC
2. Cab de Sherbrooke - Sherbrooke, QC
3. Centre d action bénévole de Farnham - Farnham, QC
4. Centre d’action bénévole de Contrecoeur - Contrecoeur, QC
5. Centre d’Action Bénévole Domaine-du-Roy - Saint-Félicien, QC
6. Centre d’action bénévole du Granit - Lac-Mégantic, ON
7. Centre d’action bénévole La Grande Corvée - Grande-Vallée, QC
8. Centre d’action bénévole Les Hauts-Bois inc. - Murdochville, QC
9. Centre d’action bénévole soif de vivre - Saint-Rédempteur, QC
10. Centre d’action bénévole Valcourt et Région - Valcourt, QC
11. Community Development Halton/Volunteer Halton - Burlington, ON
12. Convergence action bénévole - Lévis, QC
13. Fédération des centres d’action bénévole du Québec - Montréal, QC
14. Ontario Volunteer Centre Network - Ontario
15. Pillar Nonprofit Network - London, ON
16. PIN- The People Information Network - Guelph, ON
17. Volunteer & Information Quinte - Belleville, ON
18. Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region - Waterloo, ON
19. Volunteer Bureau of Montréal - Montréal, QC
20. Volunteer Canada/Bénévoles Canada - Ottawa, ON
21. Volunteer Dufferin - Mono, ON
22. Volunteer Markham - Markham, ON
23. Volunteer MBC - Mississauga, ON
24. Volunteer Ottawa - Ottawa, ON
25. Volunteer Toronto - Toronto, ON
26. Volunteer West Island - Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
Signatories (West)
27. City of Leduc - Leduc, AB
28. Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations - Edmonton, AB
29. Hanna Volunteer Association/Hanna Learning Centre - Hanna, AB
30. Propellus - The Volunteer Centre of Calgary - Calgary, AB
31. Rimbey FCSS - Rimbley, AB
32. South Okanagan Similkameen Volunteer Centre Society - Penticton, BC
33. Stony Plain Volunteer Centre - Stony Plain, AB
34. Volunteer Airdrie Society - Airdrie, AB
35. Volunteer Alberta - Alberta
36. Volunteer Campbell River - Campbell River, BC
37. Volunteer Lethbridge Association - Lethbridge, AB
38. Volunteer Nanaimo - Nanaimo, BC
39. Volunteer Strathcona Centre - Sherwood Park, AB
40. Volunteer Victoria - Victoria, BC
Signatories (East)
41. Kings Volunteer Resource Centre - Kentville, NS
42. Volunteer Centre of Southeastern N.B. Inc. - Moncton, NB
43. Volunteer Greater Fredericton - Fredericton, NB
Signatories (North)
44. Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon - Whitehorse, YK
Volunteering is an opportunity to give back to the community of Greater Moncton. Being a Volunteer Greeter is the highlight of my week!
Volunteer Driver assisting one our clients to an appointment. ‘Your commitment to volunteering many years in our community is outstanding’, Debbi LeBlanc, Volunteer Coordinator.
REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY
Come work in a fun casual atmosphere assisting people with physical disabilities. No experience necessary, fully paid training provided and medical benefits included. This is a 24/7 workplace with flexible part time hours, possibly full-time hours. Screening procedures are mandatory. For more information please call 506-382-9386 or email at v.roy@volunteergreatermoncton.com