Why volunteer?
Volunteering with ArtsPond is about more than helping out. It is about helping shape how care, justice, and creativity show up in all facets of life.
Our volunteers support long‑term change by sharing time, insight, and lived experience. Whether you bring professional skills, community knowledge, or deep curiosity, your contribution helps strengthen systems that often overlook those at the edges.
If you care about people, culture, and collective futures, your voice and wisdom matters here.
For current volunteer opportunities, please visit https://artspond.com/jobs. To explore other ways to volunteer, please email us at jobs@artspond.com.
Our story
ArtsPond was founded over a decade ago in response to growing precarity faced by creative gig workers and small cultural organizations across Canada.
What we learned quickly is that money alone is not the root issue. Precarity is shaped by ableism, racism, colonialism, social isolation, digital barriers, and lack of care.
Since then, ArtsPond has grown into an organization that works across the intersections between arts, culture, technology, and public space to strengthen care for people, communities, and systems at the edge.
Today, we are entering a new chapter focused on shared leadership, deeper accessibility, and long‑term stewardship with Deaf, Disabled and other justice-deserving communities at the center. We listen closely to those most impacted and helping translate lived experience into shared solutions.
Our impact
- aHa!: Mentorships, internships, and paid opportunities for hundreds of young changemakers and caregivers.
- Digital Arts Services Symposiums: Canada’s first national conversations on digital arts services and support in 2017 and 2019, leading to multiple digital ecosystem- and platform-building projects.
- Groundstory: First arts-led collective impact effort addressing gentrification in Ontario.
- I Lost My Gig Canada: National mutual aid network for gig workers, connecting 7,500+ members during the pandemic.
Recent activities
- Hatch Open: Open-source arts management platform with diverse gig workers and small creative enterprises.
- Together There: International exchange on digital justice in arts and culture.
- Caring Cultures & I Love My Gig Ontario: Fellowships exploring creativity, resilience, and care in times of crisis.
- Access Art: Reimagining and mapping accessible public art in Ontario.