Ontario, Canada: The 2007 Canada Winter Games signed up its 2,000th volunteer on the weekend but organizers say they need at least twice that number before the event begins in February.   Read article

Nashville, Tennessee: Former United States Vice President Al Gore, the star of a documentary derived from his slide show on global warming, is about to begin training 1,000 "Climate Project" volunteers to help spread his environmental message around the globe.  Read article

London, UK: UK Social exclusion Minister Hilary Armstrong today visited Mencap in Preston to mark the announcement of almost £1m of funding to increase volunteering by those at risk of social exclusion.  Read article

Most employees say they would prefer to work for a company that allows its staff time off to volunteer, new research in the UK has found.   Read article

Shanghai, China: Around 150 to 200 young volunteers in China will be sent to countries in Africa, Latin America and the rest of Asia from this month as part of China's foreign assistance project, the China News Service said today.  Read article

About 40 volunteers from New York City and across the United States will visit Warrick County this weekend to help the tiny community of Degonia Springs with its rebuilding and recovery from the November 2005 tornado. Twenty of the volunteers will be New York City fire fighters.  Read article

Evansville, USA: Only five percent of the people who can give blood actually donate it. The American Red Cross is running a campaign appealing people to donate blood or volunteer at donation centres.   Read article

Manila, Philippines: Volunteers in the Philippines are getting shorn to save the shore. The cast-off clippings of human hair are going to be used to help mop up oil from a disastrous spill that has fouled beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps.  Read article

Washington D.C., USA: A new study released by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that America’s 65.4 million volunteers donate the economic equivalent of almost US$150 billion in services each year.  Read article

Singapore City, Singapore: The Singaporean education minister believes volunteering is key to national education. He notes that student volunteerism is continuously growing and young people are increasingly seeking volunteer opportunities locally and abroad.  Read article