It is our pleasure to share our conversation with Lisa Brett, the Community Connections Coordinator at Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) in Hinton, Alberta: A BRIEF STORY OF HINTON FCSS FCSS offers preventative programs and services that enhance social well-being at the earliest opportunity. Hinton FCSS was established nearly 40 years ago with the…
Every organization, town, and service provider have a unique way of showing appreciation to their volunteers and we’d like to share those with you as well as learn a little bit about all the different organizations and members in our community. Our intention is to get to know the organizations in Alberta and appreciate them…
As volunteers, our first instinct is to focus on how we can help. We want to be good neighbours and support our community through a crisis, but it is a bit more difficult now as we’re working to flatten the curve. In this blog, Daniela Seiferling from Volunteer Alberta and Ilya Ushakov from ECVO share examples of…
Recruiting and engaging volunteers is much more than requesting a police information check or simply putting an ad up on social media that says, “volunteers needed!” It’s an ongoing process that matches the right volunteer with the right opportunity creating a meaningful and mutually beneficial experience. At Volunteer Alberta, we believe that a successful volunteer…