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Volunteering Counts: Get Ready and Get Set to Volunteer
Do you volunteer as a hobby for something that you are passionate about? Do you have a business that is looking to build goodwill and more clients or customers? Here are two ideas for helping those that help others.

Volunteering Counts: Shake Up Your Summer and Volunteer for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
There is more than one way to make your mark for the athletes. It's the chance of a lifetime to join the team of volunteers as we welcome the world. This is your ticket to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and to enjoy the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

Volunteering Counts: Volunteering Incentives Canadian Style
Are you looking for new ways to have fun in your community and make a difference at the same time? Canadian communities need your compassion and your volunteer time.

Volunteering Counts: Help Build a Home or Be a Coach
What are you passionate about? Are you already doing it for a living? Why not consider combining them and making a difference in your community?

Volunteering Counts: Volunteer at the 2009 RBC Canadian Open
Give your love of golf a spring head start and be a part of the PGA Tour and the 100th playing of Canada's national open and Mike Weir's Hall of Fame induction.

Volunteering Counts: Sustainable Volunteer Opportunities
So you didn't quite make it as an athlete, but you're as passionate as ever to leave your mark. This is your ticket to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Volunteering Counts: Newspaper Jacket Keeps Homeless People Warm
Leave it to Canadians to put the good causes of helping our homeless and recycling together and come up with a multi-purpose solution.

Volunteering Counts: Share Kindness, Touch Hearts, Change Lives
2009 can be the year that you make a difference. A simple act of kindness can go a very long way.

Volunteering Counts: Elevate your Volunteer Experience to Excellence
Your relevance matters. Take the time to share your passions with others. Be amazed at how much you profit from the encounter.

Volunteering Counts: In Need of Holiday Help
'Tis the season of giving. Great ways for families, friends and corporate teams to participate and share in their communities' challenges.

Volunteering Counts: Create Your Own Carbon Credits, Volunteer
It all starts with you. One of the best ways to ensure you are a good steward of the environment is to get involved. Volunteers are our greatest natural resource.

Volunteering Counts: Welcome Aboard to People of All Ages and Abilities
Cruise or Dragonboat for a Cause or see what you can do in your Canadian community to make waterway cruising more accessible to everyone.

Volunteering Counts: What Are You Doing For Canada's Olympians?
Canada's Games. This is our time to shine, our time to show the world who we are and what we can do - from coast to coast to coast.

Volunteering Counts: Feel the Magic. Turn your Hobby into a Volunteer Activity.
Something magical happens when you get involved in your community. Volunteering transforms people and turns good communities into great ones!

Volunteering Counts: Spring into Action This Earth Day
Are you concerned about the environment? Not sure how to get involved? Earth Day provides the opportunity for positive actions and results.

Volunteering Counts: Volunteering is Good for the Heart, Literally
Volunteer, for the love of your health, your community and the world around you.

Volunteering Counts: The Business Case for Volunteerism
Career Reasons to Make Volunteering a Resolution.

Volunteering Counts: Give the Gift of Volunteering
Time is a precious gift to give

Volunteering Counts: Be a Santa to a Senior at Christmas: Brighten a Senior’s Holidays
Get a head start on your holiday spirit by encouraging your family and friends to committing their time now to making a difference for seniors living in our community facilities. If your high school students or teenagers still need to earn more of their mandatory volunteer hours, this is a fun way to make a difference while collecting hours?

Volunteering Counts: Create Great Family Bonding Through Volunteering
Canadians say they are having trouble balancing their work and family lives. Some are starting to actively seek new ways to balance it while creating opportunities for family members of all ages to take a fuller part in society. Many families give freely of their time and knowledge with little expectation of anything back. Without a doubt the return on their investment is great.

Volunteering Counts: Strengthen Your Charitable Muscles
Gear up your Fall routine with some fuel for the sole. Communities all across this great country hold fitness focused fundraisers and welcome you to get involved.

Volunteering Counts: Become a Voluntourist
Have you had your fill of beach vacations and getting too much sun? Do you wish that you had more time to be a volunteer and give back to the community? What if there was a way to travel to an exciting locale and make a real difference while getting the chance to experience a new culture first hand?

Volunteering Counts: Make Your Vacation Really Count
Summertime brings so many opportunities to give back to the community and enrich the lives of someone else through volunteering. Do you have vacation time? Days off? Are you looking for a way to make that vacation time more meaningful and possibly do more by getting involved in an organization that changes peoples' lives?

Volunteering Counts: Turning Volunteer Work Into Paid Employment
For all of you Dads and Grads, and the rest of you Canadians looking for more passion in your work days, here is how you can turn your giving back experiences into celebrating paid employment.

Volunteering Counts: What are Some Tips
To Get Started as a Volunteer

Volunteering Counts: Here are 12 Awareness Ribbon Colours to help you recognize their cause significance
Are you looking for a spring pick me up? Why not volunteer for a cause that you believe in!

Volunteering Counts: Daffodil Days
Getting involved with your community is just like Spring Cleaning for the Soul.

Volunteering Counts: Get The Most From Your Volunteering Experience
Did you know that there are hundreds of volunteer opportunities available...

Volunteering Counts: Volunteer Opportunities
At Senior Residences and Long Term Care Facilities

Volunteering Counts: Volunteer Energy
Connecting Non-Profits with Volunteers

Volunteering Counts: Lending a Helping Hand
Giving of your time and of your wealth

Volunteering Counts: Tips on How to Start
Family Volunteer Traditions

Volunteering Counts: Let’s Celebrate National Volunteer Week
National Volunteer Week takes place from April 23 – 29...

Volunteering Counts: Volunteering Opportunities
Check out these great opportunities...

Volunteering Counts: Give the Gift of Life
According to Canadian Blood Services there is a looming shortage of the life-giving liquid in Halton ...

Volunteering Counts: How to Help Halton Food Banks
The statistics are shocking: in Halton 7.6 per cent of children and 8.3 per cent of youth live in poverty ...

Volunteering Counts: Opportunities at The WaterFord
Interested in helping seniors in your community?