Good Neighbours Awards

The Good Neighbours Awards celebration is an annual event hosted by the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver (ANH) to honour volunteers who have made significant contributions to their neighbourhoods and communities. For the past twenty-two years we have been celebrating neighbours and neighbourhoods at a special annual dinner and awards ceremony.

Click here to view pictures from this year's Good Neighbours Awards Ceremony.

Each Neighbourhood House or Camp identifies the Good Neighbour they wish to recognize. We also accept nominations from across the Lower Mainland in order to honour one special volunteer whose activities span many neighbourhoods with the Lower Mainland Good Neighbour Award. Seven years ago, we added a Youth category to recognize secondary school students from Vancouver, the Tri- Cities and South Surrey who are already volunteering at their schools or in their neighbourhoods. In 2003, we included a Corporate Category to recognize and honour a company for significant and long lasting support of neighbourhood house activities.

Our annual signature event is the Celebration of Good Neighbours, an opportunity for the Association to recognize and honour those who have made a significant contribution to
their neighbourhoods through their volunteer activities.

We need you…

This year, on Wednesday November 14th, we will be celebrating our Good Neighbours event. Awards will be presented in four categories: Youth Awards to secondary school students; Neighbourhood House Awards to nominees from the individual Houses; a Corporate Award to a company which has supported neighbourhood house initiatives and an overall Lower Mainland Award, to someone
whose volunteer activities have benefited many neighbourhoods. We solicit nominations for the Corporate Award from the Houses and the Lower Mainland Award from the community at large.

Youth Awards: Each secondary school in Vancouver, the TriCities and South Surrey is asked to select one student who has demonstrated their commitment to their school/neighbourhood/community through their volunteer activities, to receive a Good Neighbour Youth Award. Award recipients include: volunteer tutors, service students, mentors, peer tutors, local and district student council members, volunteer interpreters,
youth office workers, leadership program volunteers; a number of award recipients were involved in provincial, national and international volunteer initiatives.

Elegibility Criteria

1. Neighbourhood House Award
   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.
2. 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;
3. The Lower Mainland Good Neighbour Award
   Acknowledges a volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the community through his/her support of neighbourhood house activities.
   Nominees must meet the following criteria as a volunteer on a non-paid, non-work related basis:
   
   • provided long standing community leadership across neighbourhoods;
     
   • 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 to numerous community initiatives;
     
   • improved the well-being of families, youth, children, seniors, people with disabilities, multicultural/ethnic groups in the areas of social service or health

Download Good Neighbour Award Elegibility Criteria and Nomination Form

Please return to Association of Neighbourhood Houses

c/o Barbara Low
Phone (604) 875-9111, ext. 100
Fax (604) 875-1256
brlow@anhgv.org
Suite 203 – 3102 Main Street
Vancouver, BC V5T 3G7

• Lower Mainland Good Neighbour Award Elegibility Criteria;
• Lower Mainland Good Neighbour Award Nomination Form