Summer Volunteer Delight

Volunteering is a valuable and rewarding life experience.
It helps one see that one person can positively impact the world and come away feeling good with one small selfless act of volunteering. And volunteering is FUN!!! 

At The Salvation Army (TSA) Ontario Distribution Centre (ODC), we take pride in providing delightful, humbling, and rewarding volunteer experiences for you, your families, friends, and colleagues to get together and support our fellow Canadians in need.

Summer volunteer activities include helping us fulfill summer survival kits for our street outreach programs and preparing for the new school year with Back-to-School orders. There is also much food to be sorted and distributed weekly.  

For Parents with students in Grades 9-12, we welcome high school students looking to fulfill their community service volunteer hours during the summer. It’s an excellent opportunity to experience volunteering ‘behind the shield’ in a warehouse environment.

For Parents with children ages 10-13, this is an excellent opportunity to spend a few hours of quality family time together while helping the GTA-H community where you live and work. Note: An adult must accompany young people ages 10-13.


Please see our Ontario Distribution Centre volunteer program details below:

Volunteer Shifts: For safety reasons, we accept groups with a maximum size of 15 volunteers per shift.' 

March to October, we have the following volunteer shifts where the volunteers sort food and other items (clothing, houseware, back-to-school supplies, toys, etc.).

• Morning volunteer shifts: Monday to Friday (9am-12pm)

• Afternoon volunteer shifts: Monday to Thursday (1pm-2:45pm…our warehouse hours end at 3pm).

 For November and December, we have the following volunteer shifts where the volunteers bag and sort toys and sort food and other items (clothing, houseware, etc.). 

• Morning volunteer shifts: Monday to Friday (9am-12pm)  

• Afternoon shifts: Monday to Friday (1pm-4pm) 

 My Impact volunteer portal, volunteer forms and orientation document:

1. Register: Please create an account/register your name with the MyImpact volunteer portal. Fill out the ‘Availability’ screen, then click ‘Submit application’.  (IMPORTANT: Please follow the registration instructions included in the attached Corp-Salvation Army Food and Other Sorting Group Volunteer Sign-Up Package.)

2. Sign up: Please sign in under your name with the MyImpact volunteer portal. To select the date(s) and shift(s) that you wish to do, go to the ‘Opportunities’ tab – select ‘Opportunity Calendar’ -- this view presents a list of the shifts per day in the calendar. Select a date, then select the shift and click on the ‘Sign up’ button. You can also go to the ‘Schedule’ tab to see the shifts you have signed up for. You can also click on ‘Remove’ to remove yourself from a shift.

3. Forms: Please fill out the 2 Volunteer forms and bring them to your first volunteer shift:  1. Volunteer Waiver of Liability and 2. Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement. (Note: Ignore the ‘Group Volunteer Registration’ form – not applicable for the individual.)

4. Orientation: Please read the Food and Other Sorting information overview prior to the session prior to your first volunteer session.

Location, Parking and Entrance: Salvation Army Ontario Distribution Centre is located at 150 Railside Road, North York, M3A 1A3. (Major intersection: Lawrence Avenue and DVP.) Volunteer parking is in the Korean Community Church parking (1st driveway entrance). Accessibility parking is located near the main entrance (2nd driveway entrance). Please enter by the Salvation Army Main Reception.