Volunteer Centre Resources
Find a Volunteer Centre in your community
Starting a Volunteer Centre
Would your community benefit from a structured system of connection, leadership and management for volunteers?
If the answer is yes, the good news is that there are many available resources to provide guidance to starting a volunteer centre in your community.
A strongly recommended print resource is the Emerging Centres Manual published by Volunteer Canada. It is available from Volunteer Alberta’s Resource Centre.
What Support Can I Expect from Volunteer Alberta?
We are happy to provide advice and expertise for any concerns you may have, including:
- A one-stop shop for building strong and healthy Volunteer Centres
- Sample forms, policies, procedures, templates, and documents
- Recommended key reading materials
Resources for Volunteer Centres
- 7 Steps to Starting a Volunteer Centre
- How can a Volunteer Centre help you?
- Volunteer Centre HR manual – Volunteer Calgary Document
Learning Resources beneficial for Alberta’s Volunteer Centres
Knowledge Connector is Alberta’s largest hub for connecting the nonprofit/voluntary sector with critical learning opportunities.
KnowledgeConnector helps Alberta’s nonprofit/voluntary sector organizations attract and train the best and brightest to work with Alberta’s communities.
VAULT designed for managers of volunteers and is a means of collaborative sharing, accessing leadership and professional development, identifying best practices, the ability to respond to emerging trends, and access to practical expertise within the nonprofit/voluntary sector.
The Co-operators helps nonprofit/voluntary Sector organizations maintain insurability by having their specially trained agents review risk management practices. In addition, The Co-operators gives back to the community through a special Community Guard nonprofit fund and are easy to access with specially trained agents in the voluntary sector.
OASSIS is committed to providing access to affordable, comprehensive employee benefits for community-based organizations. It is a nonprofit organization that has provided competitive full service, financially secure products for over 20 years. The organization understands the funding and human resource challenges and complexities of the volunteer/not for profit sector. In Alberta, OASSIS partners with Volunteer Alberta to access respected and reliable carriers of benefit products.