2024 Business Success Award Nomination Form - Nonprofit Organization

This is a competitive award. Submissions must earn a minimum threshold evaluation score to be eligible to win. One eligible nominee will be awarded.

The award will be presented at Celebrate Aspire on April 25, 2024. Finalists are strongly encouraged to attend. Finalists will be announced on April 17. After the event on April 25, Aspire will announce the winning organization via communications to other Aspire members, and via a press release to Central Indiana news media outlets, which is also posted on Aspire’s website.

Eligibility and Criteria:

Organizations are encouraged to nominate themselves, or may be nominated by others.

Each nominee must be a non-profit business in operation for a minimum of two years, and a current Aspire Economic Development + Chamber Alliance member business.

Nominees must demonstrate qualified success in more than one of the following areas: growth and stability; commitment to quality; creative/unique solutions to challenges; and entrepreneurial spirit.

Nominees’ overall contribution to the community will also be considered.

How to Nominate and Nomination Deadline:

Please complete the following nomination form. If you are nominating another organization, please complete as much of the form as possible.

We cannot guarantee incomplete nominations will be sufficiently evaluated. We invite you to please make an appointment with the Aspire staff for assistance completing the form.

Nominations are due on or before Wednesday, April 10, 2024 by 5:00p.m. EST.

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* 1. Contact Information

Name *

Company *

Address *

Address 2

City/Town *

State *

ZIP *

Email Address *

Phone Number *

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* 2. Please provide a brief description of the organization being nominated.

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* 3. Describe the organization’s primary business goals/objectives and how they’ve been achieved.

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* 4. Is this business a non-profit or for-profit?

Non-profit

For-profit - please stop and fill out this form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2024SuccessForProfit

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* 5. What is the organization's full time equivalent employee count?

1-9

10-49

50+

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* 6. Required: What were the nominee’s revenue for the last three years:

2021

2022

2023

% Change from 2021

% Change from 2022

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* 7. Optional, but strongly requested: How does this performance compare with the nominee’s industry’s local, state, or national average? Please use specific numbers / percentages if possible. (Not sure? Contact your industry association, or the Central Indiana Small Business Development Association at 317.464.2228, or the Greenwood Public Library Business Reference Desk at 317.885.5036, or email questions to Johnson County Public Library reference staff at ask_us@jcplin.org.) Please also list your source.

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* 8. Special attention will be paid to organizations demonstrating creative, bold, unique and/or innovative solutions that are supported with available data and positive outcomes. Describe the organization’s achievements with regards to two or more of the following.

Growth and stability. Explain why this is remarkable; use comparative data if possible.

Commitment to quality. Use examples of your quality/service standards and/or how they are better than competitors.

Successfully overcame a business challenge. Describe the challenge you faced and how you successfully overcame it (i.e. business interruption, shifting consumer trends, economic pressures, supplier issue, labor issues, business model issues, government regulation, etc.).

Entrepreneurial spirit. Describe examples of innovation, growth, leading/changing your business’s industry, learning from failures.

2024 Business Success Award Nomination Form - Nonprofit Organization

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* 1. Contact Information

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* 2. Please provide a brief description of the organization being nominated.

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* 3. Describe the organization’s primary business goals/objectives and how they’ve been achieved.

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* 4. Is this business a non-profit or for-profit?

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* 5. What is the organization's full time equivalent employee count?

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* 6. Required: What were the nominee’s revenue for the last three years:

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* 8. Special attention will be paid to organizations demonstrating creative, bold, unique and/or innovative solutions that are supported with available data and positive outcomes. Describe the organization’s achievements with regards to two or more of the following.

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* 9. Please share any additional information that will be helpful as we make our selection.