About the Emerging Leaders Placement Project
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Explore Opportunities. Build Your Future.
Welcome to the Emerging Leaders Opportunities page! Here you’ll discover incredible organizations across Canada offering volunteer roles that align with your passions, skills, and goals. Whether you’re looking to make an impact in your community, gain valuable experience, or grow as a leader, this is your first step toward meaningful change.
How to Get Started:
1. Browse Our Partner Organizations
Scroll through our list of amazing nonprofit partners offering opportunities Canada-wide.
2. Find Your Fit
See an organization that inspires you? Click on it to learn more about their mission and available volunteer roles.
3. Click Apply
When you’re ready, click the Apply button — and you will fill out a form so we can learn about you to match with an opportunity that matches your values.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
We empower youth across Canada through meaningful volunteer placements that build leadership, foster mentorship, and support personal and professional growth in partnership with nonprofit organizations.
Vision
Youth across Canada unlocking their leadership potential, contributing meaningfully to their communities, and shaping an inclusive and equitable future through volunteer service.
Values
Equity & Inclusion
Creating volunteer opportunities that celebrate diverse voices, foster a sense of belonging, and empower youth to make meaningful contributions to their communities.
Mentorship
Fostering resilience, cultivating future leaders, and accelerating personal and professional growth — building a generation equipped to lead with confidence, compassion, and impact.
Empowerment
Empowering youth to lead with purpose and confidence. Together, we’re building stronger, more inclusive communities.
Reconciliation
Advancing truth, justice, and healing in building relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Growth
Developing adaptability and pursuing learning opportunities for continuous improvement and leadership skill-building.
Engagement
Working together with youth and not-for-profit partners to ensure meaningful volunteer placements that create positive community impact.
As a volunteer with the Emerging Leaders Placement Project, you will join a national community of youth making a difference. Each placement is unique, but you can expect a supportive and inclusive space, a role that reflects your interests, flexibility, and the opportunity to grow, lead, and co-create your experience.
What to Expect from Your Volunteer Placement
Types of Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer placements are as diverse as the youth who take them on. You might help organize a community event, support an environmental project, create social media content, or contribute to work focused on reconciliation, equity, and inclusion.
Many roles are co-created with your Placement Coordinator and nonprofit partners—offering full-time, part-time, and casual opportunities to fit your schedule and lifestyle. Your input, interests, and goals help shape your experience and inspire real change. Your voice matters.
How We Recognize You: Milestone Certificates, Spotlight Stories, Events
We celebrate your leadership and service. Volunteers will receive milestone certificates, be featured in Spotlight Stories through social media and newsletters, and may be recognized at special events. Your contributions matter and we want to showcase the impact you make.
Our Partners
National Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities
Ready to level up your skills, make an impact, and connect with your community? The Emerging Leaders Placement Project is here to help youth (ages 14–30, all genders) across Canada discover volunteer opportunities that are meaningful, flexible, and designed just for you.
This isn’t your typical volunteer program. We’re here to help you:
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Explore career paths and discover your passions
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Build confidence and develop leadership skills
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Make real change in your community—while having fun doing it!
You’ll work one-on-one with a dedicated Placement Coordinator in your area who will match you with a volunteer role that fits your goals, interests, and vision for the future. Whether you’re still in high school, studying, working, or figuring out your next steps, this program is built to meet you where you’re at.
Why Join?
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Find volunteer roles that align with your passions
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Gain hands-on experience and build your resume
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Meet new people and expand your network
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Be part of a movement empowering young leaders across Canada
This is your chance to step up, stand out, and start shaping your future. Are you ready to make an impact?
Land Acknowledgement
The Women in Leadership Foundation acknowledges that our head office is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land) of the Syilx / Okanagan people who have been here since time immemorial. We recognize, honour, and respect the Syilx / Okanagan territory upon which we live, work, and play.
The Okanagan Nation is comprised of 7 member communities in the Southern Interior of British Columbia: Okanagan Indian Band, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton Indian Band, Upper Nicola Band, Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands, and Westbank First Nation; and in Northern Washington State, the Colville Confederated Tribes.
tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ means the land in the nsyilxcən language and everything that lives and interacts on it. It is an all-encompassing word that expresses the intersectionality of land and nature.
Women in Leadership also recognizes, honours and respects the presence of all Indigenous people, past, present and future.
Funding Acknowledgement
The Emerging Leaders Placement Program is funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Service Corps Program.
We are proud to support youth leadership, community engagement, and volunteerism across Canada thanks to this vital funding.
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