VOLUNTEER
Make a Real Difference
Across New Brunswick, non-profit and co-operative housing organizations rely on dedicated volunteers to provide governance, oversight, and leadership. These roles are essential to the sustainability of housing that serves seniors, families, individuals, and people with complex needs.
The New Brunswick Non-Profit Housing Association (NBNPHA) represents 170 non-profit and co-operative housing organizations that own and operate over 6,500 affordable housing units across the province.
Whether you’re looking to give back, build experience, or use your professional skills for good, volunteering with community housing is a meaningful way to contribute.
WHY VOLUNTEER?
Help Protect and Sustain Homes
Board members play a critical role in ensuring housing is: financially sustainable, well governed, aligned with community needs, and stewarded responsibly for the long term.
Build Valuable Experience
Board service offers hands-on experience in areas such as: governance and fiduciary oversight, financial literacy and risk management, strategic planning and decision-making, and leadership and collaboration. This experience is highly transferable and valued across sectors.
GIVE BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY
Community housing organizations are deeply rooted in the places they serve. Volunteering means contributing to: housing stability, healthier communities, and stronger local economies. Your time and perspective help ensure housing organizations remain responsive, ethical, and community-focused.
STRENGTHEN YOUR RESUME
Serving on a non-profit or co-operative housing board demonstrates: leadership and accountability, commitment to community well-being, real-world application of professional skills, and experience working with complex systems. For professionals (including accountants, lawyers, planners, and managers), board service is a respected way to apply expertise beyond the workplace.
Interested in Getting Involved?
There is an especially strong need to recruit skilled professionals who can contribute their expertise in areas such as finance, governance, law, property management, human resources, development, and community planning. Fresh perspectives and specialized knowledge are essential to strengthening organizational capacity and ensuring non-profit housing providers remain effective, compliant, and forward-looking.
Why Partner With Community Housing?
Strong housing systems are built by people who care enough to step up.
meaningful, skills-based volunteer opportunities
strengthen governance across the non-profit sector
contributE to long-term housing solutions
cOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
Strong housing systems are built by people who care enough to step up.
There is an urgent need to recruit new board members throughout the province. About 1,000 long-serving volunteers have dedicated years of leadership and service and about 300 are now ready to retire. However, without new members stepping forward, they are unable to transition out of their roles. Succession planning has become a critical issue for many non-profit housing organizations.
Affordable housing is the foundation of healthy, thriving communities.
By stepping forward as a board member, you help ensure that non-profit housing organizations remain resilient, accountable, and ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow — while supporting a smooth transition to the next generation of community leaders.