National Awards

The Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

This Volunteer Award honours Canadians for unpaid voluntary activities, most often behind the scenes at the community level. They have given extraordinary help or care to individuals, families or groups, or supported community service or humanitarian causes. Recipients usually have been involved in these activities for several years and normally have not been recognized with a national or provincial honour. There is no deadline for nominations and awards are announced in press releases on an ongoing basis. For further information or to complete a nomination form, please contact the Chancellery, Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A1, or from toll-free line (1-800-465-6890) or visit http://archive.gg.ca/honours/awards/cca/index_e.asp.

The Flare Volunteer Awards

The Flare Volunteer Awards are presented each year to six outstanding Canadian women aged 18 and older whose volunteer achievements have made a difference to the lives of the people in their communities. For more information or to receive a nomination brochure, call 1-877-2-AWARDS, contact awards@flare.com or download the online nomination form at http://www.flare.com/volunteerawards/article/20426--flare-volunteer-awards.

Imagine Canada's Community Partnership Awards

Started in 1996, the Community Partnership Awards recognize sucessful partnerships between Canadian companies and voluntary sector organizations that address a social need with a sustainable and innovative solution. For more information or to request an application form, call 1-800-263-1178 (toll free) or (416) 597-2293 (Toronto region), send an e-mail to sthenner@imaginecanada.ca or visit www.imaginecanada.ca.

The Peter F. Drucker Award for Canadian Nonprofit Innovation

It is the vision of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation to find the Innovators, whether small or large, to recognize and celebrate their example, and to inspire others. The Foundation endeavors to fulfill this vision by calling attention to the worthwhile, innovative and essential contributions made to society by nonprofit organizations throughout Canada through the annual Peter F. Drucker Award for Canadian Nonprofit Innovation.

Peter F. Drucker defines innovation as: "change which creates a new dimension of performance". Innovative ideas need to possess resolve, imagination, and groundbreaking new thought. The ideas also need to be measurable and transferable to the experiences of other nonprofits in the field. Innovation at a nonprofit level should be shared and benchmarked in order to create an overall well being of society. Since 1993 the stories from applicants for the Drucker Award in Canada have proven that innovation can be a powerful tool in the betterment of people's lives. For more information, call (416) 979-3939 or visit www.innovation-award.ca/aboutdruckeraward.html.