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CBE传承奖表彰卡尔加里的公共教育和为我们社区作出贡献的个人。

于2019年1月8日，律师Gordon Hoffman在Hoffman Dorchik LLP获得此奖项。
Gordon Hoffman毕业于Central High School，当1969年重新在50th Ave. S.W.重新开放时，改名为Central Memorial High School。

他因为在我们社区和无数亚伯达省居民的生活中做出显著而持久的贡献而被提名。

Gordon融入志愿者精神到了一个全新的层次。40多年来，他一直活跃在卡尔加里的志愿者社区中。他曾担任近100个慈善和社区组织的主席、联合主席、董事和创始人。这些组织支持广泛的人群和社区，包括：

• 问题少年
• 无家可归和生活在贫困中的人
• 宗教组织
• 有学习困难、脑损伤或精神疾病的人
• 老年人
• 截肢者
• 体育界
• 艺术界等等。

名单可谓是长而不断增长。

他对我们的城市作出的贡献受到了广泛的赞誉。在获得传承奖之前，Gordon已获得了30个单独的奖项，包括卡尔加里市年度市民奖、女王钻石庆典奖章、卡尔加里天主教社区领导奖和加拿大总督关怀奖。他还被卡尔加里先驱报评为引人注目的卡尔加里人，并被CTV评为鼓舞人心的亚伯达人。

在所有慈善机构中，最让Gordon快乐的是他创办并且在某些情况下仍然担任主席的那些机构。这些机构是：Project Warmth、Operation Kickstart和Alberta Champions。

Gordon在20多年前创办了Project Warmth Society。顾名思义，Project Warmth收集了靴子、手套、外套、睡袋和其他服装，为那些需要的人提供帮助。自开始以来，成千上万的物品已经捐赠给我们的学校、他们的家庭和社区中的其他人。仅去年一年，就有超过10万个物品分发给有需要的人们。

Operation Kickstart的目标是帮助人们，特别是那些刚来到加拿大的人们，获得他们找到有意义的工作所需的技能。Gordon创办了这个组织，以解决教育和培训那些进入或重新进入职场有困难的人们的需求。

Alberta Champions Society是一个独特的倡议。该协会的使命是通过在城市各处设计和放置的结构钢“名人堂”来纪念、认可和表彰对卡尔加里及其周边地区做出重大贡献的亚伯达受众群体。您可以在Hyatt Regency酒店、McDougall Centre和Heritage Park等地方看到这些美丽的钢铁纪念碑。

当Gordon不是主持或创办新社会时，他通过展示给他人如何成功运营社会或筹款活动来指导他人。他真正激励他人志愿参与并捐赠他们的时间和金钱帮助那些有需要的人。

他是CBE传承奖的当之无愧的获得者。

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The CBE Legacy Award celebrates public education in Calgary and the individuals who have contributed to our communities.

Gordon Hoffman, a lawyer with Hoffman Dorchik LLP, received the award on Jan. 8, 2019.
Gordon Hoffman is a graduate of Central High School, which was renamed Central Memorial High School when it reopened on 50th Ave. S.W. in 1969.

He was nominated for the work he does every day to make a significant and lasting difference in our community and in the lives of countless Albertans.

Gordon has taken volunteerism to a whole new level. For four decades, he has been at the heart of the volunteer community in Calgary. He has served as chairman, co-chairman, director, and often the founder of close to 100 charitable and community organizations. These organizations support a broad spectrum of people and communities including:

• Troubled youth
• The homeless and those living in poverty
• Faith organizations
• People living with learning disabilities, brain injuries, or mental illness
• Senior citizens
• Amputees
• The sports community
• The arts community and so many more.

The list is long, and continues to grow.

His contributions to our city have been widely celebrated. After receiving the Legacy Award, Gordon will have chalked up 30 separate awards, including the City of Calgary Citizen of the Year Award, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Calgary Catholic Community Shepherd Leadership Award and the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. He has also been recognized by the Calgary Herald as a compelling Calgarian, and by CTV as an inspired Albertan.

Of all the charitable societies, the ones closest to Gordon’s heart are those that he founded, and in some cases, still chairs. These societies are: Project Warmth, Operation Kickstart and Alberta Champions.

Gordon launched the Project Warmth Society more than 20 years ago. As the name implies, Project Warmth gathers boots, gloves, coats, sleeping bags and other necessities for those who need them. Since inception, thousands of items have been donated to our schools, their families and others in our community. Last year alone, over 100,000 items were distributed to those in need.

Operation Kickstart is all about helping people, particularly those new to Canada, to gain the skills they need to find meaningful work. Gordon founded this organization to address the need to educate and train individuals having difficulty entering, or re-entering the workforce. 

The Alberta Champions Society is a unique initiative. The mission of the society is to commemorate, recognize and honour those Albertans that have made a significant contribution to Calgary and the surrounding area. The society does this through the “Fields of Fame,” which are groupings of structural steel that are designed and placed at prominent locations throughout the city. You can see these beautiful steel tributes in places like the Hyatt Regency Hotel, McDougall Centre and Heritage Park.

When Gordon is not chairing or founding new societies, he is mentoring others by showing them how to run a successful society or fundraiser. He truly inspires others to volunteer and to donate their time and money to help those in need.

He is truly a worthy recipient of the CBE Legacy Award.

Nominations for the Legacy Award are accepted year round. Click here to learn more.