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Request For Volunteers: Red Cross requires Forklift Operators and Commercial Drivers – 2

June 27, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

Description:  The Red Cross requires volunteers that are trained forklift operators (1) or truck drivers with a commercial license (1)
Location: Canadian Red Cross, 100, 1305 11th Avenue , SW Calgary
Date: June 27
Time: 12pm-6pm

Additional details:

Volunteers are needed to operate forklifts and drive commercial vehicles at the Red Cross. Volunteers should be trained in operating a forklift. Volunteers operating vehicles require their commercial driver’s licence.

To volunteer for the forklift operator opportunity, sign up here.
To volunteer for the commercial driving opportunity, sign up here.

Request For Volunteers: Red Cross requires Forklift Operators and Commercial Drivers

June 27, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

Description:  The Red Cross requires several volunteers that are trained forklift operators (6) or truck drivers with a commercial license (5)
Location: Bay A123 7139 44th Street SE Calgary
Date: June 38-30
Time: 8am-6pm

Additional details:

Volunteers are needed to operate forklifts and drive commercial vehicles at the Red Cross. Volunteers should be trained in operating a forklift. Volunteers operating vehicles require their commercial driver’s licence.

To volunteer for the forklift operator opportunity, sign up here.
To volunteer for the commercial driving opportunity, sign up here.

Request For Volunteers: 16 Volunteers Required for Tide Loads of Hope Campaign

June 27, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

Description:  Tide required 16 volunteers to help staff their Tide Lodas of Hope Laundromat Activation

Location: Glenmore Coin Laundry (6624 Centre Street SE, Unit 10B)
Date: Thursday, June 27 to Sunday, June 30
Time: Friday 1pm-5pm, Saturday 9am-1pm and 1pm-5pm, Sunday 9am-1pm and 1pm-5pm

Additional details:

Volunteers are needed to greeting people, distributing tokens for laundry, handing out laundry detergent, helping with folding (when appropriate).

To sign up for this opportunity, please contact Crystal Kwon with Tide at [email protected].

Request For Volunteers: IT And Social Media Volunteers Required

June 27, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

Description: 20 volunteers required to be IT and social media volunteers for YYCHelps
Location: This position can be done from your home. An internet connection and a minimum of 10 hrs a week will be required
Date: June 27-July 15
Time:  Dependent on volunteer project requests and needs

Additional details:

YYCHelps needs your help! We are in need of 20 individuals that can help us maintain our online presence. We are looking for Calgarians with experience with WordPress and/or CRMs. You must be skilled in the use of social platforms like Twitter and Facebook. We require qualified individuals to be available immediately until July 15th. Hours are flexible, but you will be asked to commit to specific shifts to help us monitor volunteer requests, staying updated via Twitter and Facebook with local requests, create volunteer request postings, survey monkey surveys, etc.

Volunteers will ideally be available for a training/briefing tomorrow morning, June 27 at 10am at Innovate Calgary.

Sign up for this opportunity here.

Request For Volunteers: Canadian Bridges Requests Aid And Donations at Siksika Nation

June 26, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

This request has been updated. Link to update on YYCHelps.ca

Link to update directly from Canadian Bridges on June 28

Original request:

Canadian Bridges is in need your support in the form of bodies to help and supplies at Siksika Nation

Description:  Canadian Bridges requires 150 at any one time to help sort donations, prep food, etc. Donation of cleaning and camping supplies are also required. Details below.

Location:  Deerfoot Sportsplex, Hwy 901 and Hwy 547.  CORRECTION added June 28: The volunteer check-in is at the high school beside the Deerfoot Sportsplex. The Deerfoot Sportsplex is the building with the red roof at the 901 and 547 intersection, south of Gleichen. There are many signs to direct you upon arrival.

Date: Thursday, June 27, Friday, June 28
Time: 9am-1pm, 5-9pm
Note: This opportunity is approximately an hour outside of Calgary. Canadian Bridges requests that anyone bringing children volunteer only sorting food donations.

Additional details:

The volunteer work includes sorting donations (biggest need); and sorting food and making food hampers.

Please bring your own snacks and drinking water.
Special requests: Siksika Nation is in particular need of volunteers trained in food preparation. Please let us know via the comments box on the sign up sheet if you possess any food preparation training. There may also be contamination issues. If you are trained in this area, please let us know via the comments box on the sign up form.
If you have items you can donate, please bring the following with you:
  • camping equipment
  • gift cards
  • non perishable food
  • water
  • cleaning supplies

If people are coming with resources (driving trucks and equipment) tell them to reroute via Yellowhead Highway 16 then Highway 2 – Highway 1 still restricted to Canmore residents returning and emergency response teams – road being rebuilt – watch AMA Road Reports- http://www.ama.ab.ca/

Note: Sign up so we know when we have enough volunteers, but do not wait to be contacted. Go straight to the address listed above.

Thursday, June 27. 9am-1pm. Sign up here.
Thursday, June 27. 5pm-9pm. Sign up here.
Friday, June 28. 9am-1pm. Sign up here.
Friday, June 29. 5pm-9pm. Sign up here.

Nine Year Old Learns Lesson in Generosity

June 26, 2013 by admin in Community Updates | Comments Off

We’re accepting incredible stories from the streets! Here is one from Grace…

Grace, spent the afternoon of her 9th birthday playing her violin on a street corner in Marda Loop. Through the generosity of passersby, Grace raised $320.63 for the Canadian Red Cross in just under two hours. The eagerness to give was unbelievable, people were waving money out of their car windows, others would walk by and then come back a few minutes later, saying they went to the bank to get money so they could donate. One fellow came back twice to donate, bringing his wife the second time, who also donated. Grace has numerous schoolmates whose homes have been damaged by the floods, and was thrilled the money she raised would go to help people like her friends. There may have been no school that day, but my daughter learned an amazing lesson the afternoon of June 24, 2013

To submit a story to be posted on our blog, simply visit the Stories page.

Free Hugs For The East Village!

June 26, 2013 by admin in Ways You Can Help | Comments Off
We don’t know when we’ll need you to volunteer for our community, but we will.
We don’t know when we’ll be able to collect donations for our residents, but we will.
We will need care packages, welcome home kits and plenty of man power to assemble them.
We are still under evacuation, we still do not have electricity, nor do we know when our residents will be able to return.
For those of you wondering how you can help, What we DO need from you right now are HUGS!
PLEASE write letters, cards, paint pictures and drop a sweet little “hug” into the mail that we can give to our 1200+ East Village residents, many of whom are seniors, when they return.
Let them know you’re thinking about them, sending them well wishes and that they are missed.
Help impacted flood victims, have you children, your school, church & community groups, and friends & family from all over the world send our seniors some hugs.
We will be collecting these cards and thoughtful notes and distributing them in our care packages when our residents are able to return to their homes.
Please send to:
East Village Hugs
C/O Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
429 – 8th Ave. SE
Calgary, AB
T2G 0G1
Please forward this message to your family and friends and anyone looking for a way to help Calgary flood victims.

Helping Flooded Businesses In Calgary

June 26, 2013 by admin in Business Offerings | Comments Off

A message from Michael Flewitt, President, Cloverhitch Technologies.

Turnover Manager would like to offer our services to all those affected by the recent Alberta floods. Turnover Manager is a property auditing tool that will let you audit the damages to your property, track the repairs and log the receipts and paperwork with the report. It’s a property auditing system with a cloud based management centre and a tablet inspection tool that will store your reports for dealing with insurance, government or contractors. The system is geared for property managers but can be quite beneficial to anyone with property that has been affected.

We’ll award you 10 free credits, which will be enough to record the property condition and track the repairs. We hope that this service can help ease the process of getting property and lives back to normal after this disaster. Sign up for our service at http://turnovermanager.com/register.php and enter ‘Alberta flood’ in the promotional code.

Turnover Manager is brought to you by Cloverhitch Technologies and Mobile Property Management. As we’re re-purposing the tool it may take a day or two for your credits to show, but the two week trial will cover you in the meantime.

Cloverhitch Technologies is located at 1929 10 Ave SW Calgary. Check out their website or give them a call at (403) 607-0875 for more details on this offer.

Disclaimer: Offers received from local businesses have not been vetted nor are they endorsed by YYCHelps. Please exercise caution when contacting any business offering free services.

Request For Volunteers: Bow Crescent NW Cleanup

June 25, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

*Note: This is a 2nd volunteer call for Bow Crescent NW.

Description: 100 volunteers required for Bow Crescent NW Cleanup to clean and empty homes
Location: To be disclosed to volunteers after sign up
Date: Wednesday, June 26
Time: 10am-4pm

Additional details:

Please bring rubber boots, rubber gloves and protective eyewear. Volunteers are required to help clean and empty homes at Bow Crescent NW. If you have any pumps or generators, those will be required as well. Please bring your own snacks and drinking water. Some work with seniors will be required. Further instructions on special entry points and meetup location will be provided to volunteers after you’ve signed up.

Special equipment needs:

Pumps and generators.

To sign up for this opportunity, please fill in your information here.

Request For Volunteers: 50 Volunteers Required to Sort Donations

June 25, 2013 by admin in Volunteer Opportunities | Comments Off

Description: 50 Volunteers required to help sort through donations at Siksika Nation
Location: Deerfoot Sportsplex, Hwy 901 and Hwy 547
Date: Tuesday, June 25, Wednesday June 26
Time: We have 4 shifts available. 1-5pm and 5-9pm each day.
Note: This location is located approximately 1 hr East of Calgary

Additional details:

Sorting donations received at the Deerfoot Sportsplex. Lots of clothes, stuff, bedding, etc that needs to be sorted, marked, and organized in order to make it accessible for the affected families on the nation.

No special skills required.

To sign up for this opportunity, please fill in your information at one of the links below:

Tuesday, June 25 – 1pm-5pm. Sign up here.  This opportunity has been filled.
Tuesday, June 25 – 5pm-9pm. Sign up here.
Wednesday, June 26 – 1-5pm. Sign up here.
Wednesday, June 26 – 5-9pm. Sign up here.

Note: Sign up so we know when we have enough volunteers, but do not wait to be contacted. Go straight to the address listed above.

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