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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 our website and social media sites. 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.

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

Tim Hortons Volunteer of the Month

Volunteer of the Month

The winner of April’s Volunteer of the Month draw is Rachelle Mah! was nominated for Volunteers of the Week by Meals on Wheels.

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

‘We are very grateful for Rachelle’s help delivering our special Good Friday dinner. Our clients really enjoyed seeing some new faces helping out. Thank you for giving us your time!’

Congratulations Rachelle!

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.