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We wish you a healthy, happy and restful holiday season. May the New Year shine bright for us all! Hope you all get some well deserved rest and relaxation. Our office will be closed from noon on December 24th and will re-open again at 8:30 a.m. on January 4, 2010. We look forward to continuing our conversations with you then! Sincerely, The staff at Volunteer Victoria The following is the first of many posts that we hope you will help contribute to. As we enter 2010, and celebrate 35 years serving our community, we want to highlight the many valuable relationships we have with our members, volunteers, partners, sponsors, funders and supporters. We invite you to join the conversation and to share your story with us. I would like to welcome and thank Ben Ziegler, a volunteer and board member with Victoria Restorative Justice Society (VRJS), who has kindly offered to be our first guest “member” blogger to share how Volunteer Victoria assists his organization. VRJS’s relationship … [Continue reading Community Collaborations: One of our many valued relationships with our members…] If you’ve lived in Victoria for any length of time, you will undoubtedly have heard people talking about “the big one.” When will the big earthquake hit, we wonder. And will we be prepared when the time comes? Although it is important to plan how our organizations will react to a large full-scale earthquake, it is equally important to plan how we will react to smaller, more day-to-day emergencies. That is the message that the Victoria Emergency Management Agency (VEMA) and the Canadian Red Cross gave to non-profit organizations the other day in our half-day workshop on ”Emergency Preparedness for Voluntary Sector Organizations.” Facilitators Sara … [Continue reading What will it take to be prepared?] Today I’d like to welcome Yasmin Rampuri from the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria who has written the following guest blog post for us about her experiences taking our recent Overview of Volunteer Management certificate course. Congratulations to all 23 of our 2009 course graduates! Over four Saturdays in October and November I had the great pleasure of attending Volunteer Victoria’s excellent Overview of Volunteer Management Course. The course was facilitated by two engaging and very experienced leaders in the Volunteer Management field, Diane Kirby and Theresa Vogel. Each of them led two of the Saturdays, and brought their different … [Continue reading Overview of Volunteer Management Course: A Participant’s Experience] |
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