VOLUNTEER ROUNDUP

Need more information? Contact Volunteer Ottawa: 613-736-5270 or visit www. volunteerottawa.ca

Have a passion or skill to share? Compass Centre For Self-Directed Learning needs volunteers to teach classes and/or lead a tutorial. Compass helps teenagers live and learn without school by supporting teens to create a customized education based on their interests, abilities, and goals. Volunteer commitment: 60 or 90 minutes once per week for a minimum of 10 weeks. Volunteers needed for (but not limited to) the following: visual art, music, film production, journalism, web design, entrepreneurship, and languages (Japanese and Russian). Think of what you would have loved to have learned as a teen, and then contact us! Teaching certification not required. Contact program manager Rosalind at 613-916-6303 or rosalind@ compassteens.org Be a tutoring hero! Can you spare two hours a week? Assist Ottawa’s marginalized children by providing them with literacy, ESL and life-skills instruction. Training, materials and support provided. No formal teacher training necessary. Police check required. Contact The Excellence in Literacy Foundation’s Sage Youth Program to find out about programs, times and locations: email sageyouth@hotmail.com or call 613-838-5539. Visit www. sageyouth.org to learn more.

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movies: The Ottawa Family Cinema is a non-profit movie theatre run by volunteers in Westboro, operating every second Friday evening and every Saturday afternoon. Needed are snack bar cashiers and someone to make popcorn. A projectionist’s assistant is also required, as well as a volunteer co-ordinator to respond to requests to volunteer with us, setting up and conducting interviews, managing the student community hour program, checking references of prospective volunteers, and updating the Volunteer Ottawa site for volunteer positions. Contact Nancy Bradley: 613596-0260 or coordinator@ familycinema.ca

The Canadian Cancer

Society needs volunteers to assist with pink ribbon sales in local grocery stores during the weekend of Oct. 1 and 2 to raise funds for breast cancer. Choose a time and location by visiting www.ottawa.myccsschedule.ca. Also needed: volunteer drivers to bring cancer patients to and from cancer-related appointments. Must have a valid driver’s licence, smoke-free vehicle, and complete a criminal records check. Call 613-7231744 ext. 3623 or ottawavolunteer@ontario.cancer.ca