http://www.youngretired.ca Volunteering opportunities for active Canadian retirees. Profiles of major domestic and international volunteering organzations. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/VolunteerFront.html Experience shows that volunteering can be an important source of satisfaction for retirees. Volunteers often benefit as much -- or more -- from their assignments as their clients do. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/UNVirtualVolunteers.html Virtual volunteering is growing quickly because it is so flexible; volunteers work from home, and can offer to work a few hours on a project, or several hours a day, whatever fits their schedule. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/HabitatForHumanity.html Habitat for Humanity offers a wide range of opportunities for volunteers across Canada as well as abroad, either building houses, or helping to run the organization that gets the houses built. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/UNvolunteers.html UN Volunteers (UNV) finds skilled volunteers to serve on UN missions around the world, in development, peace keeping and advisory roles. Of 7,500 volunteers placed each year, 100 are Canadians. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/CESO/CESO.html CESO posts hundreds of people with all kinds of skills in Canadian and international communities. CESO volunteers are men and women, generally aged 50-70, and either retired, or working people who can take the time to do a volunteer project. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/CUSO/CUSO.html CUSO was once an organization for university-based volunteers; it is now one of the most active organizations sending older Canadians abroad to assist organizations in developing countries, generally for two year assignments. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/xcultSolutions.html An international voluntourism organization that caters to mature voluneers in addition to younger participants. Volunteer residences in 20 centres in 12 countries. Duration from 2 to 12 weeks. http://www.youngretired.ca/travel/Verge_Magazine.html A Canadian magazine that covers "travel with a purpose"; volunteering, voluntourism, working abroad, studying abroad, and eco tourism. It offers a database of "purposeful" travel offerings. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/CANADEM.html CANADEM's role is to assist international organizations to identify civilian experts for UN peace keeping, crisis recovery and governance, including electoral observation. These are short term jobs that pay a substantial wage for people with the right skills and experience in developing countries. They offer a program to allow people to gain work experience in the developing world on a self funding volunteer intern basis. http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/Frontier_College.html Frontier College needs retiree volunteers. Frontier College provides tutoring for the 42% of Canadians with difficulty reading & writing.� For 110 years, their emphasis has been on University student volunteers, but now they are looking for retirees with the right mix of enthusiasm and patience... http://www.youngretired.ca/volunteering/NewHorizons.html The federal New Horizons program has issued a call for applications for grants of up to $25,000 for projects that encourage seniors to share their knowledge, skills and experiences with others and help communities increase their capacity to address local issues. Last year two out of three applications for funding were approved.