Volunteer positions available with Smart Growth BC

Volunteer
positions available with Smart Growth BC

Earn hours towards
community service and access an amazing network of enthusiastic individuals.
These positions provide an exciting opportunity to develop and apply public
relations and event execution skills. Volunteers will engage in logistical
operations and in creating a sense of hospitality and a warm community welcome
at the events. Duties include event set-up and strike down, receiving
guests, assisting with Q & A periods, staging assistance and serving food
and beverage. If you have a background in community dialogue and facilitation,
planning, architecture, design, engineering or other, your skills would be most
useful as a workshop leader/facilitator at the YouMap Festivals. The two
events are being held on October 3^rd and 4^th and October
24^th & 25^th, in the two festival neighbourhoods of
Grandview-Woodland and Douglas Park respectively. 

Commitment: various times / various
positions

Smart Growth BC, in
partnership with the Vancouver City Planning Commission, is launching a community asset
mapping initiative unique to its kind in Canada. YouMap
Vancouver is an innovative approach to mapping community assets or
“amenities.” It will expand the definition of “amenity” beyond ‘traditional’
assets such as parks and libraries to include the intangible, qualitative
characteristics of neighbourhoods, such as special places, viewpoints, community
gardens, trees, historic locations, cafes and shops, trails and more. The
YouMap project empowers local
residents of all ages and backgrounds to build an inventory of what makes their
neighbourhoods great, by establishing an inventory of the strengths, weaknesses,
gifts of their “community,” and gaps that when filled make a complete community.

The YouMap project begins with a pilot
project in two neighbourhoods. On October 3^rd and 4^th in
Grandview Woodland and on October 24^th and 25^th in Douglas
Park, neighbourhood residents – citizens of all ages, including young people and
families, business people and community groups – are invited to attend their
neighbourhood festival and take part in the mapping and dialogue activities
designed to be fun, creative, and thought-provoking.

Those who can’t
attend their festival are invited to visit a website to contribute to their
neighbourhood mapping effort using an online tool, where they will be able to
upload images and record notes. Through the festivals and the on-line
participation, citizens will be able to share information about their
communities’ most valuable qualities, help Vancouverites broaden our collective
perspective, and refine our understanding and definition of complex concepts
such as “neighbourhood,” “community amenity,” and “community”
itself.

For more information
and to participate online, please go to: www.youmapvancouver.ca 

For more information
about the Vancouver City Planning Commission, please go to: www.planningcommission.ca

For more information
about Smart Growth BC, please go to: www.smartgrowth.bc.ca