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Volunteer With Us
Thanks for considering becoming part of the YD Volunteer team! We would not be able to run our programs without our dedicated team of volunteers. The process to sign up is straightforward:
Step 1: Review Our Current Volunteer Needs
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VOLUNTEER ROLE |
COMMITMENT & SCHEDULE |
LOCATION |
WHAT WILL YOU DO? |
SKILLS NEEDED |
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GENERATIONS: FRIENDLY VISITS |
Minimum 4 months commitment; flexible schedule; 1.5-2.5 hours per week |
Various locations in and around downtown Montreal |
Coordinate weekly meetings with your senior match for casual activities like chatting over coffee, playing games, or going for walks. |
Empathetic, open- minded, reliable and organized. Conversational French an asset. |
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GENERATIONS: FRIENDLY ERRANDS |
Minimum 4 months commitment; flexible schedule; 1.5-2.5 hours per week. |
Various locations in and around downtown Montreal |
Support your senior match with their weekly shopping. |
Attention to detail, patient, reliable, and organized. French skills an asset. |
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GENERATIONS: ACCOMPA-NIMENTS |
Minimum 4 months commitment; flexible schedule; 1.5-2.5 hours per week |
Various locations in and around downtown Montreal |
Accompany a senior from their home to their appointment(s), providing physical and emotional support. No car needed! |
Patient, friendly and reliable. French skills an asset. Weekday availability. |
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GENERATIONS: TECH HELP |
Minimum 4 months commitment, flexible schedule, 1.5-2.5 hours per week |
Various locations in and around downtown Montreal |
Support your senior match with computer and Internet questions, helping build confidence and independence with technology. |
Teaching skills, patience, confidence with technology. |
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WELLNESS GROUPS: ART HIVE |
Minimum 4 months commitment, every Friday from 3:30-5:00pm. |
Galeries du Parc (3590 Rue Jeanne Mance) |
Assist the Art Hive Facilitator by setting up/cleaning the space, creating a warm and welcoming environment for participants, and answering questions |
Friendly and welcoming attitude, ability to take initiative, creativity, art experience an asset, bilingualism an asset. |
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WELLNESS GROUPS: HOOTENANNY |
Minimum four months commitment. Weekly Friday from 7pm-11:30pm |
3625 Aylmer |
Set up the space for the event (making coffee, moving furniture, etc), welcome participants, be an active and enthusiastic audience member (option to help host the event), clean up at the end of the night. |
Consistency, good communication skills, friendly and welcoming attitude, ability to carry chairs and small tables, musical knowledge an asset. |
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WELLNESS GROUPS: PLANT CARER |
30 minutes weekly – schedule flexibl |
Galeries du Parc (3590 Rue Jeanne Mance) |
Care for the plants in the Yellow Door Community Space (watering, pruning, re-potting as needed) |
Plant knowledge, punctual communication and consistency |
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VoisinAge: Activities Volunteer |
Minimum 3 months commitment, 3-week intervals followed by 1-week off, Tuesdays from 11am-12:30pm and 2-3:30pm, Thursdays from 11am-12:30pm. |
HLM PMR, HLM HDV, HLM Dufort |
Assist with set-up, welcoming participants, helping the facilitator, clean-up of activity. |
Good interpersonal skills, empathetic, open-minded, enthusiastic, bilingual. |
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RABBIT HOLE: CO-COORDINATOR |
Rabbit Hole runs every Friday during the academic year. Prep can be done at any time at the volunteer’s discretion. Approx. 5-10 hours weekly, including 1.5h service on Friday. |
YD Office (3625 rue Aylmer) |
Plan, prepare, and cook a healthy vegan meal and serve it to the community every Friday. |
Must have some knowledge & interest in cooking, must be comfortable working in a small team with another coordinator & drop-in volunteers, must be friendly and able to socialize with customers & inform them of YD programs. Food security training an asset. |
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RABBIT HOLE: MARKET VOLUNTEER |
Minimum 4 months commitment, biweekly on Wednesday from 10:45am-12:15pm. |
HLM Duorcher (425 Sherbrooke O) |
Help our affordable senior market run by helping seniors pick out their produce and noting what they took for checkout. |
Good interpersonal skills, good communication skills, bilingualism, ability to work in a team, patience. |
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RABBIT HOLE: DROP-IN VOLUNTEER |
The café runs every Friday afternoon during the academic year. The time of service can vary depending on volunteer availability, but a 1.5hr window for service is ideal on Fridays (12:00-1:30). Shopping, prepping, curating recipes can be done at any time at the volunteers discretion. This is a drop-in role, so a minimum of a 1 hour commitment is ideal. |
YD Office (3625 rue Aylmer) |
The Rabbit Hole is a volunteer-run café in the heart of Milton Parc that serves affordable, healthy, vegan meals to the community. A drop-in volunteer for the YD has a more lenient schedule; working with the coordinators, split up shopping, prepping, cooking, serving & cleaning tasks. Become a RH volunteer without the commitment. Come lend a hand when your schedule allows it! |
Knowledge and interest in cooking. Comfortable working in a small team, friendly, ability to socialize with customers. Food safety training an asset. |
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ADMIN: |
This role is on a callout basis. YD team will contact you when needed. |
Various locations in and around downtown Montreal |
Take photos at our events, edit photos if needed, and send photos to YD team to be used on our social media, website, promotional material, etc. Your work will always be credited! |
Knowledge of and passion for photography. Ability to work with the YD team to create photos that align with our brand and mission. Must own a camera. |
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ADMIN: TRANSLATOR |
5-8 hours per month |
Virtual |
Translate various documents in a timely manner from English to French |
Fully bilingual (English & French); experience with written translation |
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Last updated: August 12, 2026 |
Step 2: Complete Volunteer INTAKE FORM
Step 3: CHECK YOUR INBOX
At the beginning of each month, we invite all applicants to a 30-min online group orientation. At the orientation you can learn more about our programs, ask any questions about volunteer roles, and receive information on next steps.