Volunteering & Donation

Our Centre is a volunteer-run charitable organization. You may contribute to our work by volunteering with us or making a financial donation to support us.

Donations can be made by e-transfer to admin@appliedbuddhism.ca. We issue tax-deductible electronic receipts to donations of over $20. If you would like to receive a tax receipt for your donation, please send us your name and address along with your donation. We thank you in advance for your kind support.
Our registered charity number is 702619081RR001.

We offer volunteer opportunities to people interested in applying the Buddha-Dharma through volunteering in the following areas:

Administration
Buddhist counselling/psychotherapy
Facilitating psycho-education groups for university students/young adults
Peer supervision
Project co-ordination

Placement opportunities are also available to students in education programs in Buddhism, counselling, psychotherapy, spiritual care and social work requiring supervised placements.

Since 2019, we have accepted placement students in the Contextual Education course as well as the Supervised Pastoral Education course in the Master of Pastoral Studies Program at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.

Volunteers and students may also engage within our partnerships with Buddhist community groups under the join supervision of our Centre and our partners in the areas of senior care, end of life care, youth education and prison chaplaincy.

Our Buddhist community service partners:
Ven. Bhante Dhammo Truong, Abbot, Wat Khmer Kampuchea Krom
Ven. Xin Yin, Abbot, The Mahayana Pure Land Temple
Roshi Taigen Henderson, Abbot, Toronto Zen Centre
Ms. Chris Ng, President, Buddhist Education Foundation of Canada
If you are interested in volunteering with our Centre or in connection with our community service partnerships, please email us at volunteering@appliedbuddhism.ca