Manitoba Lotteries Family Volunteer Award

Call For Nominations

Volunteer Manitoba’s Volunteer Service Awards is an opportunity to celebrate and honour volunteers and groups who give their time, energy and talents to help Manitoba build stronger communities. Our province is rich with a culture of caring that volunteers helped to build - passionate people determined to make a difference. Manitoba Lotteries is committed to supporting volunteerism in our province and proud to once again be the Presenting Sponsor of the Volunteer Service Awards.

“Volunteers give the gifts of time, talent and resources to meet the needs of others. That spirit of service has helped shape Manitoba as a very caring and giving province,” said Winston Hodgins, President and CEO of Manitoba Lotteries.

Manitoba Lotteries is very proud of its own community of volunteers, with a volunteer program that exceeds 600 employee and family and friend volunteers.

The Award

The MANITOBA LOTTERIES FAMILY VOLUNTEER AWARD promotes family volunteering across Manitoba and recognizes an outstanding family that has dedicated their time and resources to giving back to Manitobans.

Who Can Be Nominated?

The recipient will be a Manitoba family who has demonstrated outstanding and consistent caring for the improvement of the community around them.

Criteria For The Award

The family must currently reside in Manitoba.
Involvement in a variety of volunteer programs is desirable.
The volunteer efforts must be completed solely on a volunteer basis, and the family cannot receive any monetary compensation for their efforts.
The volunteering must have occurred in Manitoba.

A “Family” is defined as two or more members that are related either through blood relation, marriage, or circumstance.

Please include a narrative that is at least one page in length detailing how the nominated family has contributed back to their communities, promoting togetherness, and generousity.

Nomination Procedure

Please provide a description of the family’s volunteer work and of the family’s motivation or reasons for volunteering. Including the name/ type of organization, if applicable.
Please provide details of how the family showed leadership in their volunteer activities, for example, in identifying a need, building and attracting support, fundraising and overcoming obstacles and challenges.
Describe how the family used initiative in their approach to meeting an individual’s or the communities’ needs.
Tell us the roles of the family members, while providing the service (e.g.: leader, treasurer, volunteer coordinator, etc.)
Describe how the family’s community or neighbourhood benefited from their volunteer contributions.
Approximately how many hours of volunteer work did the family contribute between February 1, 2011 to February 1, 2012?
Please outline the family’s prior volunteer experience and any other additional information that may be relevant to the award category.

Judging

An independent panel of judges reviews all nominations and will select the award recipients.

All nominators and candidates will be notified in writing of the judges’ decision.

Please submit a digital image, or photograph, of the nominated family, if possible volunteering, with your submission.

Nominee

Last Name of Family
First Names of Family Members

Relationship to Each Other

Address

City/Town
Postal Code

Daytime Phone
Evening Phone
Cell Phone
Email

Nominated By

First Name
Last Name

Address

City/Town
Postal Code

Daytime Phone
Evening Phone
Cell Phone
Email

Reason For Making This Nomination

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This Nomination Supported By

Reference 1

Name
Relation to Family

Daytime Phone
Evening Phone
Cell Phone
Email Address

Reference 2

Name
Relation to Family

Daytime Phone
Evening Phone
Cell Phone
Email Address

How did you hear about this award?

Radio
TV
Newspaper
Direct Mail
Volunteer Manitoba
Other

Declaration of Accuracy

A FAMILY REPRESENTATIVE MUST AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION OF ACCURACY

I have read the nomination details above, and all attachments, and certify that they accurately describe our volunteer work. I agree that our volunteer work was not performed as a condition of any salaried employment, or solely as a requirement of an educational or professional course(s).

In respect to the digital image/photograph submitted, I consent to our appearance in all materials that Volunteer Manitoba and Manitoba Lotteries may produce as it relates to the Manitoba Lotteries Family Volunteer Award.

Name Date I Agree NOTE: For those individuals in the digital image/photograph that you are not a parent or legal guardian to, please submit a letter of acknowledgement and consent from their parent/legal guardian.