Volunteering get-together

We have organized several volunteer happy hours in the Latin Quarter in Montreal. The purpose of these events was to discuss the issues of volunteering in a casual way, but also to network and create a real community of practice around the issues of volunteering in Montreal.

Get-together num. 1: the place of women in volunteering in Quebec. With : Lili-Anna Pereša, from Centraide.

Get-together num. 2: Volunteering and Urban Planning. With: Hélène Lefranc and Alexander Cassini from the collective Le Carré et sa ruelle and the co-creator of the Village Éphémère, Marie-Claude Plourde.

Get-together num. 3: Volunteering for and by seniors. With: Maryse Grenier, Volunteer Manager of the Providence Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Hospital Center, Linda Benjamin, responsible for recruiting volunteers at the Animation Committee for the Third Age of Laval (CATAL), Élise Robert, Volunteer President of the Montreal Region Committee for the Cystic Fibrosis cause, then finally Gérald Vigeant, elderly volunteer at Suicide Action Montreal.

Lunch conference on mental health and volunteering on March 24, 2021. With the participation of:Lise Noël, M.A. social intervention UQAM and Maryline Fournier, executive director of the Quebec Volunteer Action Network (RABQ).

This round table on November 26, 2021 aims to approach volunteering as invisible work or free work. Guests: Maud Simonet, sociologist and director of research at the CNRS and Camille Robert PhD student in history at UQAM.

June 8, 2022, round table on volunteering and diversity. With the participation of :
Lyse Kaze of the Network of Black Professionals at the National Bank, Mohamed Zarrouk, candidate for a master’s degree in international and intercultural communication at UQAM and Sylvie Roy, volunteer and ambassador for the Rick Hansen Foundation.