United Way
Community Connections
United Way's Community Connections program provides customized employee volunteer opportunities that connect volunteers' talents and skills to needs of United Way member agencies in the community—to make an impact where it's needed most.
Here are some of the highly rewarding volunteering opportunities that will benefit your workplace, employee volunteers and our communities.
Matching Professional Skills
Use your professional skills to help one of United Way's more than 200 health and social service agencies deliver vital community services. United Way will match employees' expertise and interests to our agencies' needs in a number of areas including:
- Human Resources – provide advice on a number of topics: employment practices, labour management and conflict resolution
- Information Technology – give help through problem solving support, software updates/training, technology audits, and website development
- Finance and Law – provide financial planning, budgeting and auditing knowledge
- Marketing – help create professional agency marketing materials
Days of Caring
Days of Caring opportunities give employees hands-on experience supporting a member agency. United Way will work with your organization to tailor a volunteer team opportunity that connects employees' interests to the community through:
- long-term volunteer opportunities (i.e., mentoring, after-school programs)
- organization/team volunteer days in support of specific service areas (i.e., youth opportunities, homelessness prevention, seniors' support)
- product drives in support of an agency (i.e., school supplies, clothing)
Sharing Workplace Experiences and Resources
By allowing individuals or groups from member agencies to experience your workplace, you can help others in areas such as employment training or job searching. You can provide support by:
- inviting an individual to job shadow up to one week at your workplace
- hosting a workplace orientation session and group tour
- conducting practice interviews for individuals seeking employment
- providing occasional agency access to meeting space
- sharing knowledge of a profession, field or sector to clients of member agencies
For more information on United Way Community Connections or to schedule a consultation, please contact Quinn Bingham, Director, Corporate and Community Engagement at
Learn more about these workplace voluntarism opportunities—download the United Way Community Connections brochure (pdf - 525 MB).