Deadline: 21 June 2019
Nominations are now open for Canada’s Volunteer Awards (CVA) to recognize the significant contributions of individual volunteers, non-profit organizations and businesses across the country in helping communities.
Award Categories
- Thérèse Casgrain Lifelong Achievement Award: recognizes dedicated individuals who have volunteered for at least 20 years and have inspired other volunteers, led volunteer groups or made other exceptional achievements through volunteering.
- Community Leader: recognizes outstanding individual volunteers or groups of volunteers who have taken a lead role in developing solutions to social challenges in communities. This category does not include not-for-profit organizations or registered charities.
- Emerging Leader: recognizes volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 who have demonstrated leadership and helped to build stronger communities.
- Business Leader: recognizes businesses that demonstrate social responsibility in their practices, including promoting and facilitating volunteerism locally, regionally, and nationally as well as, for-profit or not-for-profit social enterprises dedicated to creating social, cultural or environmental benefits for their communities.
- Social Innovator: recognizes not-for-profit organizations, including not-for-profit social enterprises that find and use innovative approaches that address social challenges in their communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominees can be individuals or groups, businesses, social enterprises or non-profit organizations and must meet specific eligibility criteria. Political and public advocacy work is not eligible.
- Individuals or groups must:
- be Canadian citizens, permanent residents or protected persons within the meaning of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
- be between the ages of 18 and 30 for the Emerging Leader category and 18 years of age and over for all other categories
- have contributed to addressing social challenges in their community
- Businesses or non-profit organizations must:
- be Canadian (for example, registered non-profit organizations or businesses registered in Canada). For the purposes of the administration of the Canada’s Volunteer Awards, non-profit organization means entities incorporated under either federal or provincial non-profit legislation or registered charities that do not have transferable ownership interests and are organized and operated exclusively on a non-profit basis for a variety of purposes including social, educational, professional and charitable purposes
- have contributed to addressing social challenges in their community in Canada
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Canada
For more information, please visit https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/volunteer-awards/nominate.html?utm_source=mp_amb&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cva16_17