President’s Award for Community Service

Criteria

• Initiative: the nominee sees a need in the community and responds
• Innovation: the nominee’s volunteer activity is innovative or unique in its approach (e.g. establishing a new program)
• Impact: the nominee is making a significant positive impact in the community
• Commitment: the nominee demonstrates substantial, continuing and current involvement
• Inspiration: the nominee inspires others to volunteer or contribute
• Leadership: the nominee demonstrates or is developing leadership capacity
• Special Qualities: the nominee’s overall contribution to community service makes them particularly worthy of the President’s Award for Community Service
  

Please note:
The volunteer activity must not directly benefit the hospital sector and related foundations and must be unpaid and not mandated by an authority (for example community service placements required by schools.)

The benefit of the volunteer activity must be directed to the local community where the LHSC employee, physician or volunteer regularly works and/or lives.