Make a difference

Check out ‘Our Projects’ page for simple, flexible ways you can make a difference. Sign up for our newsletter or follow us on social media to learn more about the impact your acts of kindness make in our communities

HIP volunteers at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Calgary office

School volunteer projects

Looking for ways your students can help support community needs, demonstrate kindness and give back? We create citizenship projects students can do from their classrooms. Students learn how they can make a difference and gain an understanding of community needs.

Two young Humanity in Practice volunteers at work

Family & youth volunteer projects

Youth community groups, seniors’ homes, daycares – everyone can make a difference. We create monthly citizenship projects that groups of any age can do from anywhere. You can make a difference together as a group, gain an understanding of community needs while team building!

A Humanity in Practice volunteer dropping off donations at the Calgary Urban Projects Society's childcare centre.

Group volunteer projects

Looking for ways your business can support community needs, demonstrate kindness, and give back? We offer groups an opportunity to assemble kits for women & children living in shelters. Your group pays $10 per kit, and we bring all the supplies to you for a fun team building experience putting them together. We then, pick up the assembled kits and deliver them to those in need on your behalf! We have different themes of kits to put together from personal hygiene kits, to play kits to winter care kits!

Thank you!

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Upcoming project

Boo-boo kits!

You can help provide first aid. Donate bandages, wet wipes, tissues, hand lotion, lip balm or cough drops. We create individual first-aid kits with the bulk donations we receive.

Book kits made by Humanity in Practice volunteers. They contain seasonal treats, a colour-your-own-bookmark, and a pack of crayons.

h!ppo program

h!ppo is a program designed to support children living in shelters or transitional housing, by providing seasonal treats and creative play kits that are considered part of a happy childhood but that are not affordable for these families.

Our kits are a fun and safe way for families to spend quality time together, exercising creative expression and building happy memories. You can help by purchasing a kit for $20. Donate or e-transfer to hip@shaw.ca.