We are a charity that has been on the forefront of community building for over 65 years. We are the Volunteer Centre of Calgary and our commitment to providing digital solutions for volunteer engagement comes from our understanding that volunteers need to be engaged in a way that is consistent with the rest of their online lives.

We put volunteers at the center

• The VolunteerConnector is free for volunteers to get connected to their favourite causes so they can use their skills. It has
been designed by volunteers for volunteers with the support of a volunteer centre that has decades of
experience. If you are every wondering why the platform works the way it does, a volunteer made that choice!

We actively support grassroots and social justice movements
• Volunteerism has social justice and change for good in its heartbeat. This is why, in addition to supporting organizations, we encourage many grassroots initiatives to make use of this platform. We see positive societal change being rooted and activated in a whole new wave of formal and informal volunteering efforts. These efforts range from racial justice and anti-racism to environmental justice and education.

We care about community
• It is important to us to democratize volunteer engagement. This means providing access to simple, affordable solutions for volunteer engagement to grassroots, nonprofit and charitable groups everywhere. Typically, an organizing group uses either an excel spreadsheet or a complicated CRM to engage volunteers. In order to make the whole system of volunteering better we need everyone to have access to the same great tools and that is what the VolunteerConnector provides!

Volunteer Calgary is the hub of volunteering and the resource centre for the non-profit sector. We exist to create a thriving, engaged community for every person.

• We help build caring communities by connecting people and causes with opportunities to effect positive change.
• We ignite and empower the spirit of volunteerism by weaving communities, causes, and passionate people together.
• We work with organizations to ensure that people have meaningful and rewarding experiences through access to a simple, affordable digital platform to engage volunteers.
• We link  to community partners together to help transform ideas into reality

Make a Donation 

Staff and volunteers in non-profit organizations rely on bursaries and grants in order to access expertise and training to strengthen their organization and achieve their missions.

Every year in Calgary, volunteers contribute the equivalent of $3.5 billion is volunteer support to non-profit organizations! A donation to Volunteer Calgay is a donation to supporting the future of volunteerism in Calgary.