Volunteer - The Valuable Gift of Time
Making the most out of your volunteer activities can be crucial to making a real difference and having a rewarding experience.
Project417 provides a volunteer work and training opportunity which promotes personal and professional growth, and equips volunteers to provide organizational support to the project and our clients - homeless street people and the socially isolated living in poverty.
Volunteers are an important resource to our clients, providing experience, models, support, and an invaluable link with the community. We encourage volunteers to be involved at all levels of the organization and within all appropriate programs and activities.
Currently we have openings on the following positions:
Sandwich Run Volunteers
Sandwich Run Team Leaders - Urgent, please help!
Short Term Summer Mission Teams - Urban Adventures - Inner City Experience
Street Outreach Team Members
Hurricane Ike and Katrina Disaster Relief Team Members -
Knox Youth Dinner,(formerly Out of the Cold for Street Youth) - at Knox Church, 630 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Community Dinners -
Over the years Project417 has helped several inner city and suburban churches implement a "community dinner" program to serve meals to low income families, people living in crisis and the homeless. Three of the programs continue to operate every week serving hundreds of guests nourishing meals and an inviting atmosphere. The longest running is at St. Stephen in the Fields Church in the Kensington Market area of Toronto. For more than 15 years, a breakfast program there Saturdays and now Sundays serves 20,000 meals a year. The Project417 Homeless Sandwich Run team leaders first started this breakfast program to immediately follow the Friday overnight street outreach which ran from 2 - 6am. The congregation at St. Stephens caught the vision and have shown real community commitment in keeping the breakfasts running even through financial hardships. The Knox Youth Dinner (formerly Knox Out-of-the-Cold) at Knox Church Toronto on Spadina, serves dinner every week Tuesday nights from November to April in the coldest weather months to more than 120 street involved, low income and homeless youth. They also operates a food bank the same nights for recently housed youth as well. There is another church hosting a new program in the Bloor West area also ...or - Host a dinner at your church
For more information please contact us by email: volunteer@project417.com
