18 - SAVA!

Members of the Scarborough Association for Volunteer Administration (SAVA) Executive, Toronto, Canada

Pictured from left to right:

Alysia Neale - Outreach Coordinator, Volunteer Services, The Scarborough Hospital

Josie Dunn - Community Liaison Coordinator, Leisureworld Scarborough

Joan Walters - Volunteer Coordinator, Warden Woods Community Centre

Roseanna Wirt - Coordinator of Volunteers, VHA Home HealthCare

Carol Gamble - Volunteer Toronto

Jovel Patricio - Volunteer Coordinator, Momiji Health Care Society

Members of the SAVA Executive attend a Volunteer Toronto event entitled "A Salute to the Profession of Managers of Volunteers." Here they show their pride and enthusisam in belonging to a professional association for people who work with volunteers!

Thank you SAVA for all you do!

16 and 17 - Counting down to IYV+10 with Volunteer Toronto and the UN

On September 28, 2010, Volunteer Toronto held a special Volunteer Talk session with an International spin!

Simona Costanzo Sow, Project Manager for IYV+10 at UNV joined us via Skype from Bonn, Germany. Simona let us know that the UN has set up an online community where we can find out how IYV+10 is being celebrated around the world at http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/.

Check it out to see what is happening in your community.

Deborah Gardner, Executive Director and Marisa Gelfusa, Training Services from Volunteer Toronto high five after a successful International Volunteer Talk session!

Simona Costanzo Sow waves hello all the way from Bonn, Germany.

How will you be celebrating IYV+10?