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Awards will be presented in four categories:
1. Youth Awards
The Youth Good Neighbour Award acknowledges a youth who has made a significant contribution to his/her community and school through Neighbourhood House volunteer activities.
The nominee must demonstrate a commitment to his/her school, neighbourhood and community. The nominee must demonstrate his/her affiliation with a Neighbourhood House and that his/her volunteer efforts have a direct link with a Neighbourhood House.
Eligible youth must meet the following criteria:
- Contributed more than six months to the community as a volunteer of a program or service at a Neighbourhood House
- Demonstrates a strong link or affiliation with a Neighbourhood House in the capacity of helping, supporting, or contributing to programs and services provided by a Neighbourhood House
- Must demonstrate a commitment to Neighbourhood House programs and services or develop and/or lead a Neighbourhood House program or service by managing or contributing to programs or projects
- Your volunteer contribution has made or is making lasting benefits to the well being of neighbourhood life
- Must be currently attending a secondary school in the Lower mainland
2. Neighbourhood House Good Neighbours Award
The Neighbourhood House Good Neighbours Award acknowledges the valuable work of volunteers that reflects the Association of Neighbourhood Houses' commitment to making neighbourhoods better places in which to live.
Nominees must meet the following criteria as a volunteer on a non-paid, non-work related basis:
- Provided long standing community leadership;
- Created, developed and implemented programs or projects that benefit neighbourhood life;
- Made a significant and lasting contribution to neighbourhood life;
- Generously committed their time, talent and energy;
- Improved the well-being of families, youth, children, seniors, people with disabilities, multicultural/ethnic groups in the areas of social service or health.
3. The Corporate Good Neighbour Award
The Corporate Good Neighbour Award acknowledges a company that has made a significant contribution to the community through their support of neighbourhood house activities.
Nominees must meet the following criteria:
- Provided long standing community leadership;
- Supported or sponsored programs or projects that benefit neighbourhood life
- Made a significant and lasting contribution to neighbourhood life through support of Neighbourhood House initiatives
4. British Columbia Good Neighbour Award
The British Columbia Good Neighbour Award acknowledges a volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the community through his/her support of neighbourhood house activities, or the activities and initiatives of other, similar organizations.
Eligible persons include any adult resident in the British Columbia who meets the following criteria:
- Has provided long-standing community leadership across many neighbourhoods in the British Columbia.
- Has generously committed time, talent and energy to numerous community initiatives that have improved the well-being of family and neighbourhood life in the British Columbia.
- Who, through their volunteer efforts, has improved the well-being of families, youth, children, seniors, people with disabilities, or multicultural/ethnic groups in the areas of social service or health.
- Has been involved in creating, managing or participating in a program or project that has had lasting benefit to family or neighbourhood life.
- Is not necessarily affiliated with the activities of Neighbourhood Houses.
- Nominees must consent in writing to the nomination.
- Sponsors must provide at least one letter of reference/support with each nomination.
Calls for Nominations
Nominations are currently being sought for each of these categories. Nominations must
be received by October 31, 2010.
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