2024 National Volunteer Week Enhancement Funding – Canada

Enhancement Funding must be used to promote and celebrate National Volunteer Week throughout an entire community, rather than the volunteers of a singular organization, agency, or group.

The Enhancement Funding Grant is made possible through a partnership between Volunteer Alberta and the Government of Alberta. Funding is provided by Alberta Culture and is distributed by Volunteer Alberta throughout the province.

Funding Information

• Feature Sites will be supported with $1,200 and will be required to promote and celebrate National Volunteer Week throughout the entire community.
  • Sites will be required to meet the following criteria:
    • Lead/convene collaborative effort with other municipalities, villages, counties and/or nonprofit organizations, charities, societies in your region.
  • Incorporate all three of the following aspects:
    • Recognition of volunteers
    • Promotion of volunteerism
    • Recruitment of volunteers
• Host Sites will be supported in the amount of $600 and will be required to promote and celebrate National Volunteer Week throughout the entire community. Sites will be required to meet the following criteria:
  • Incorporate two of the following three aspects:
    • Recognition of volunteers
    • Promotion of volunteerism
    • Recruitment of volunteers
  • If two or more organizations/municipalities are applying in collaboration to be a Host Site, a National Volunteer Week Enhancement Funding Memorandum of Agreement must be included.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicant must be in Alberta and one of the following:
  • Recognized Volunteer Centre;
  • Family and Community Support Services;
  • Municipality;
  • Individual organizations collaborating in coordinated National Volunteer Week activities that benefit an entire region (municipality/village/county); or
  • An individual organization serving as a hub for a specific sub-community but may not be recognized as a volunteer centre
    • Some examples include, but are not limited to:
      • Organizations that serve ethnic, cultural, language minorities, or gender and sexually diverse communities.
      • Religious groups like churches, mosques, synagogues, or temples that provide voluntary service to an entire region.

Conditions of Enhancement Funding

• Applicants are strongly encouraged to collaborate with other organizations, municipalities/villages/counties/rural communities in your region to plan and celebrate National Volunteer Week.
• Enhancement Funding is intended to promote and celebrate National Volunteer Week and volunteerism on behalf of an entire community and is not intended to solely recognize volunteers of a particular agency or group.
• If an organization is partnering with one (1) or more applicant(s), they will need to complete a Memorandum of Agreement and identify a Lead Organization in the Memorandum of Agreement document.
• All applicants must identify a Primary Contact as the individual responsible for the management of the funds, measurement/assessment of outcomes and submission of the final report. A Secondary Contact must be identified in the case that the Primary Contact is unreachable.
• Organizations and communities receiving National Volunteer Week Enhancement Funding agree to recognize Volunteer Alberta and the Government of Alberta in all printed, online, audio or visual media promotions and materials in the instances where the funding is used.
• Approved funds must be spent by May 31, 2024.

For more information, visit Volunteer Alberta.