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Current Locations Looking for a Local Coordinator

Western Canada

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

Central Canada

Greater Toronto Area (Central)

Ottawa

Atlantic Canada

  • Brampton-Caledon-Orangeville

  • Brampton-Caledon-Orangeville

  • Brampton-Caledon-Orangeville

  • Brampton-Caledon-Orangeville

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Calgary

  • Campbell River

  • Campbell River

  • Campbell River

  • Campbell River

  • City of Kawartha Lakes

  • City of Kawartha Lakes

  • City of Kawartha Lakes

  • City of Kawartha Lakes

  • Durham Region

  • Durham Region

  • Durham Region

  • Durham Region

  • Edmonton

  • Edmonton

  • Edmonton

  • Edmonton

  • Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

  • Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

  • Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

  • Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

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  • Greater Toronto Area (Central)

  • Greater Toronto Area (East)

  • Greater Toronto Area (East)

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  • Greater Toronto Area (North)

  • Greater Toronto Area (North)

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  • Greater Toronto Area (North)

  • Greater Toronto Area (West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (West)

  • Greater Toronto Area (West)

  • Guelph-Wellington

  • Guelph-Wellington

  • Guelph-Wellington

  • Guelph-Wellington

  • Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant

  • Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant

  • Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant

  • Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant

  • Halifax

  • Halifax

  • Halifax

  • Halifax

  • Halton

  • Halton

  • Halton

  • Halton

  • Hamilton

  • Hamilton

  • Hamilton

  • Hamilton

  • Kamloops

  • Kamloops

  • Kamloops

  • Kamloops

  • Kelowna

  • Kelowna

  • Kelowna

  • Kelowna

  • Kingston

  • Kingston

  • Kingston

  • Kingston

  • Lethbridge

  • Lethbridge

  • Lethbridge

  • Lethbridge

  • London

  • London

  • London

  • London

  • Manitoba

  • Manitoba

  • Manitoba

  • Manitoba

  • Miramichi

  • Miramichi

  • Miramichi

  • Miramichi

  • Mississauga

  • Mississauga

  • Mississauga

  • Mississauga

  • Montréal

  • Montréal

  • Montréal

  • Montréal

  • Montérégie

  • Montérégie

  • Montérégie

  • Montérégie

  • Muskoka

  • Muskoka

  • Muskoka

  • Muskoka

  • Nanaimo

  • Nanaimo

  • Nanaimo

  • Nanaimo

  • Niagara Region

  • Niagara Region

  • Niagara Region

  • Niagara Region

  • Northumberland County

  • Northumberland County

  • Northumberland County

  • Northumberland County

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Ottawa

  • Prince Edward Island

  • Prince Edward Island

  • Prince Edward Island

  • Prince Edward Island

  • Québec City

  • Québec City

  • Québec City

  • Québec City

  • Regina

  • Regina

  • Regina

  • Regina

  • Richmond

  • Richmond

  • Richmond

  • Richmond

  • Saint John

  • Saint John

  • Saint John

  • Saint John

  • Sarnia

  • Sarnia

  • Sarnia

  • Sarnia

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Saskatoon

  • Simcoe County & Grey

  • Simcoe County & Grey

  • Simcoe County & Grey

  • Simcoe County & Grey

  • St. John's

  • St. John's

  • St. John's

  • St. John's

  • Sudbury

  • Sudbury

  • Sudbury

  • Sudbury

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Toronto

  • Vancouver

  • Vancouver

  • Vancouver

  • Vancouver

  • Victoria (South Vancouver Island)

  • Victoria (South Vancouver Island)

  • Victoria (South Vancouver Island)

  • Victoria (South Vancouver Island)

  • Waterloo/Kitchener

  • Waterloo/Kitchener

  • Waterloo/Kitchener

  • Waterloo/Kitchener

  • Windsor-Essex

  • Windsor-Essex

  • Windsor-Essex

  • Windsor-Essex

  • York Region

  • York Region

  • York Region

  • York Region

Leadership Opportunities

Bring your community together in a meaningful and impactful way. Build partnerships, develop community connections and devote your time to drive lasting change.

Start a New Local Chapter
This is the ultimate volunteer leadership position at the local level. 
If you are a mature individual with previous volunteer and leadership experience, this role is for you! 
We want to ensure every individual is set up for success in this highly rewarding role. To ensure the applicant is a good fit for this role, the volunteer application goes through a screening process before the individual is invited as a Local Chapter Coordinator.
Read through our position description to see the qualifications and time commitment needed, in detail.
See if a Chapter already exists in your community!
Apply Now
Lead an Existing
Local Chapter
Do you...
Enjoy using your leadership skills to support a cause with passion.
Search for ways to use your spare time meaningfully for your community.
Value building relationships and networks with like-minded people?
Embrace gaining life experiences?
Want to feel good about your contribution while having FUN?!
Read through our position description to see the qualifications and time commitment needed, in detail.
Apply Now
Post-Secondary Clubs
A great way to develop leadership skills, professional networking opportunities, and connect with think-a-like minds!
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Some key aspects to the role of a Local Chapter Coordinator are:

Shelters

  • Identify local shelters
  • Develop partnerships
  • Know & meet their needs

Volunteers

  • Recruit and coordinate volunteers
  • Collect, inspect, & deliver shoeboxes
  • Appreciate their efforts

Community Outreach

  • Engage & fundraise
  • Build local networks & partnerships
  • Facilitate corporate/school/group drives

Build Awareness

  • Share the giving excitement
  • Work with community leaders & press
  • Communicate the needs of women accessing shelter services

Are you...

  • A leader with strong project management skills?

  • Excited to build partnerships and develop community connections?

  • Devoted to giving the time and effort required to drive lasting change?

What is a Local Chapter?
A  Local Chapter is a branch of The Shoebox Project led entirely by volunteers.
On behalf of, and supported by, a trusted national registered charity, Local Chapters collect gifts and essentials from members of the community and distribute them through shelters and agencies to local women experiencing or at-risk-of homelessness.
Who Operates a Local Chapter?
Volunteers just like you!
Local Chapters Coordinators are community members looking for a rewarding volunteering opportunity.
Without Local Coordinators our Chapters would not exist!
What Does a Local Coordinator Do?
A Local Coordinator determines a Chapter's goals based on the needs of local shelters and community agencies.
They lead and execute seasonal gift drives by recruiting local volunteers to help.

Chapters at Work

The Shoebox Project for Women
108-1485 Dupont Street,
Toronto, ON M6P 3S2
(Please enter through 300 Campbell Ave.)

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