Nellie
continues to volunteer with several organizations.
Is committed to promote Canadian Citizenship to the Portuguese
community and to anyone that is eligible to become a Canadian
Citizen.
- YES committee of Toronto
- Unique Lives and Experiences 1993
- Toronto Historical Museum
- Toronto Sesquicentennial Committee
- Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club
- St. Clair Bear’s Nursery Co-op Board
Member
- Ontario Co-ops parent representative
- Association of Portuguese Disabled People
- Fundraising committee for the victims
of the Azores Floods
- Portuguese Canadian Women’s Council
founder and director
- Citizenship 2000 Committee
- International Workers Union Citizenship
drive co-coordinator.
- Boys and Girls Club Community Advisory
Committee member.
- WTN - Women’s Television Network
- Segment producer.
- Spokesperson for Dean Myers Chev. Olds
Corvette.
- Fund-raiser for Sick Kids Hospital since
1992.
- Host of Sick Kids Telethon International
Hours 1999-2000
- Citizenship 2000 committee member
- Member of the Antonio Dionisio / Local
183 Scholarship Trust Fund Committee 2000
- Member of the Local 183 Disabled Charitable
Fund
- Band of Directors – Society of Portuguese
Disabled Persons Building Fund 2001 - Present
- Port Coalition for Better Education 2000
- Present
