• Event Planning Support: Assist in brainstorming, planning, and coordinating special events, including holiday drives, fundraising campaigns, and community outreach programs.
• Logistics & Coordination: Help with event setup and takedown, ensuring that all materials, supplies, and resources are prepared in advance for smooth event execution.
• Donations Management: Assist with sorting, organizing, and packaging items for holiday drives, ensuring donations are handled with care and distributed efficiently to the appropriate recipients.
• Volunteer Coordination: Support the recruitment and organization of volunteers for events, including providing direction and assistance on event days.
• Outreach & Promotion: Help promote events by creating and distributing promotional materials (flyers, social media posts, etc.) to raise awareness and encourage participation.
• Event Day Support: Provide on-site assistance during events, greeting guests, managing registration tables, assisting with food or item distribution, and ensuring a positive experience for all attendees.

This event is the Downtown Whitby Business Improvement Area (DWBIA), in collaboration with Mayor Elizabeth Roy, is launching the Home Sweet Home Helps the Homeless Initiative. This is a community-driven campaign designed to support people experiencing homelessness in Whitby. If interested in volunteering, please send your resume to jessica.p@cfoc.ca

General volunteers do a variety of tasks including food service * dispensing pantry goods * monitoring washrooms * coat check * and various other odd jobs.

·       Interacting with the public while providing great customer service. Merchandising and staging of furniture donations.

·       eCommerce: product research for price and key selling points, measure dimensions, photography, and minor touch up of items to support our new online platform.

·       Tasks may include customer service, product display, pricing, assembly, and repair

• Due to the physical nature of some of the tasks required, ReStore volunteers may be asked to lift heavy objects (bathroom fixtures, windows, doors, etc.)
• Assembling furniture and some restoration of various donations.
• Able to lift 10-20 pounds and be on your feet for several hours at a time.
• Volunteers are required to wear CSA approved green label safety shoes, some at store to borrow for volunteer shift

·       Come with a willingness to learn from experienced volunteers and staff and to work as part of a team. A positive attitude, enthusiasm, flexibility, and a sense of humour is always key! Tasks are not always glamorous, so be prepared to do a variety of things.