Click Here to Submit a Volunteer Opportunity

Click Here to find Volunteer Opportunities

GPVSB is partnering with the City of Grande Prairie to celebrate National Volunteer Week. Click the 'Read More' for how you can join the celebration. Read More
Click on the "Read More" button to read our latest newsletter. Read More
Our Member Spotlight Returns! Featuring Canadian Mental Health Association ANWR, click the 'Read More' button to learn about this great organization. Read More
For the latest issue of our SANE-ITIZER Newsletter click on the "Read More" button Read More
WELCOME - The Grande Prairie Volunteer Services Bureau is the centre of Grande Prairie's community non - profit sector. We work collaboratively with individuals, non-profits, educational institutions, and the corporate sector to provide programs opportunities and advocacy to develop a vibrant, growing community that cares. Read More
The GPVSB is a Open Award Centre for the Duke of Ed Award! Read More
GPVSB MEMBER BENEFITS - There are many benefits to being a GPVSB member such as 3 free workshops for 2 participants, website linkage, volunteer listings, member pricing on professional development opportunities and more! Read More

› ‹

Our office is open Monday to Thursday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Friday 8:30 am - 3:00 pm.
Call 780-538-2727 to make an appointment. The GPVSB Office is closed on STAT Holidays.
Non GPVSB Members click here to submit your volunteer opportunities!
Click Here to read our latest Member Spotlight!
Nominate your volunteers for Tim Hortons Volunteers of the Week!
Contact us at 780-538-2727 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

VSB Highlights

April 8, 2021

Pam Rintoul: Bezanson Agricultural Society

Bezanson Agricultural Society nominates Pam Rintoul for Volunteers of the Week! They wrote ‘Pam is the gem that all organizations want on their team. Her quick wit and ready smile ensures that all tasks are fun. She has a wealth of skills and abilities and can make anyone feel welcome. She works tirelessly on bringing numerous opportunities to the community whether it is seniors’ activities, children and youth programs, sport clinics or being well involved with community events and fundraisers. Pam was instrumental in the ‘Take a Book, Leave a Book’ opportunity that is located at the Bezanson Community Centre. She is a team leader on the Bezanson Ag team as well as very involved with the Bezanson School programs.’

Shared on behalf of the Alberta Government

Proposed Legislation: Bill 58 Freedom to Care Act.

The Alberta Government has introduced Bill 58, the Freedom to Care Act. If passed, this legislation would provide broad liability protection for volunteers who are acting in good faith within the scope of their duties, and support nonprofit organizations to identify and access existing exemptions to regulations. If those exemptions do not currently exist, nonprofit organizations will be able to request new one-time exemptions to regulations that are preventing them from performing a social good.

The proposed Freedom to Care Act will:

Allow Cabinet (through Order in Council) to grant exemptions for nonprofits from government regulations intended for businesses, where an exemption does not already exist.
Require the Minister of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women to report annually to Cabinet on exemption requests that cannot be addressed through existing processes or legislation.
Provide individual volunteers with liability protection, if that volunteer is acting within the scope of their responsibilities and is not negligent or impaired in the performance of those duties.

If passed, the Act will come into effect on September 1, 2021.

Initial information is available online at https://www.alberta.ca/empowering-non-profit-and-charitable-organizations.aspx

Nominate your Volunteers for Tim Hortons Volunteers of the Week!

Tim Hortons & the Grande Prairie Volunteer Services Bureau (GPVSB) is looking to honour your exceptional volunteers with our Tim Hortons Volunteers of the Week program! This is a great way to let the people who go above and beyond know they are appreciated! The recipients will receive a letter of recognition from GPVSB, a $5 gift card & Travel Mug from Tim Hortons, be posted on the GPVSB social media sites and be featured as a Tim Hortons Volunteers of the Week in Friday's Daily Herald Tribune. They will also have the opportunity to be named Volunteer of the Month and win a $100 Tim Hortons Gift Card! This service is available to anyone who utilizes and depends on volunteer manpower. Click here to submit your nominations!

Please include your name, organization's name, the name of the volunteer and a brief description of why they are being nominated. Once nominated organizations cannot nominate that person again for 6 months. Individuals already nominated can be nominated by other organizations they volunteer with.

Tim Hortons Volunteer of the Month

Volunteer of the Month

The winner of February’s Volunteer of the Month draw is Maxine Maxwell! Maxine was nominated for Volunteers of the Week by the Grande Prairie Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society.

Here is a look back at what they had to say about their volunteer:

‘Maxine joined our Branch in 2001, shortly after retiring from teaching. Maxine has twenty years of continuous membership. During that time, she has had served two terms as President and three stints as Secretary - a position she currently holds. Maxine brings energy, commitment and hard work to our Society and to her other volunteer endeavors. I highly recommend her as a most worthwhile candidate for volunteer of the week award.’

Congratulations Maxine!

Volunteer of the Month winners are awarded a $100 Gift Card from Tim Hortons!

The staff and board of the GPVSB would like to thank our sponsor Tim Hortons for helping us fuel the volunteers of Grande Prairie and surrounding area.