DiscoverAbility is powered by mentoring.
Our goal is to support the development of our next generation, providing opportunities for them to enhance their talents, and empowering them to contribute to the community through the arts and athletics.
We are looking for students to help out in the arts and athletics areas; and corporate employees to help out in mentoring, writing, marketing, fundraising, technology and in many other duties at our community events. Join the DiscoverAbility Team by volunteering at our events throughout the year. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Arts students at Summer Street Festivals:
- We invite art students to paint along with volunteer artists or mentors to showcase your art talent to the public, and exhibit your paintings in our art gallery for charity fundraising.
- We need art students who are good in caricature, portrait sketching and face painting to help us with fundraising.
- We need art students to mentor young children for creative art and craft activities.
- We need music and dance students for performances.
The students will work under the instruction of the DiscoverAbility mentors to develop programming and teaching skills in the areas of visual arts, dance, drama, creative writing and sports.
- We invite students to be mentored by our art instructors and assist in our after-school art clubs or summer camp on a regular basis in a period of time e.g. once a week for a month or so.
- We invite senior art students to assist our art instructors in school workshops on a one-day basis during school hours.
DiscoverAbility Annual Children and Youth Art Exhibit and Charity Auction (February/March)
- We need photography and film making students at our gala event.
- We need visual art students for art demonstration, caricature and portrait sketching.
- We need dance and music students for performance.
- We need art students for exhibit set up.
- We need art students as our Friendly Art Ambassadors to guide the guests for gallery browsing.
- We need many students in other duties like greeting, coat check, craft sale table, selling raffle tickets, information booth, cash booth and exhibit tear down etc.
Annual Countryside Art Retreat and Art Tour (September)
- We invite senior high school and university arts students to join us for art demonstration at the countryside e.g. landscape sketching/painting, furniture painting, photography, portrait sketching, instruments demonstration, and dance performance. Created artwork will be donated for charity sale and auction.
- Overnight accommodations at designated group site with DiscoverAbility staff and volunteer artists may be arranged with a minimal cost. Carpool may be arranged with DiscoverAbility staff with advance notice.
CORPORATE EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERS
We need your participation: through your knowledge, skills, talents, and time, we can reach and better serve our community.
- Mentoring Senior High School and University Students
- Marketing and Promotion
- Sponsorship
- Fundraising
- Computer Technology
- Publishing Promotion Materials
STUDENT AND ADULT VOLUNTEERS DiscoverAbility "Master Dragon" Fundraising Challenge at Great White North Annual Dragon Boat Challenge (September)
- Paddlers (16 years old up)
- Fundraising Team
- Students for cheerleading
- Our goal is to apply as the designated charity of the GWN Dragon Boat Challenge and we will need 200 student and adult volunteers to help us to achieve our goal.
DiscoverAbility Annual Thanksgiving Pies Fundraising Campaign (September and October)
- Adult drivers for distribution of pies to different locations.
- Helpers to assist the drivers to distribute the pies.
- Promote pie sales through your contacts.
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