The Staff Leadership Award honors an individual exhibiting an extraordinary commitment to philanthropy in the state of West Virginia. This staff member (volunteer or paid) excels in his/her role by demonstrating exceptional commitment and leadership in the field. Creativity is a significant component of the individual's efforts and the impact of his or her work has been clearly demonstrated. This is NOT a lifetime achievement award and so nominations should focus on nominees' work in the past 24 months or less.

Selection and Recognition

Nominations must be received no later than August 1, 2018. An independent volunteer peer review panel will review all nominations and select the award recipients. The nominators will be notified of the status of their nomination by September 7, 2018. The 2018 recipient will be honored during the Philanthropy West Virginia Annual Conference on November 8th in Charleston, WV.

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* 1. How did you hear about this award opportunity?

Nominations will be accepted for staff of grantmaking entities. Each nominator must follow the outline of this application and answer each question completely within the format provided. The nominator may include and attach up to two items (no more) including two references.

Additional items should be in PDF format, no longer than 1 page in length, and may be submitted by email to the Program Coordinator. Please title each document as 2017SOPNom:NomineeName. Insert the same text in the subject line of the email. The nomination is to focus on current achievements (within the past 24 months). Each year the review committee only reviews new nominations and previous year’s nominations do not carry over for consideration in future years.

Please note that each question response below is limited to 2000 characters in length.

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* 2. Please provide the following contact information for the Nominee and yourself (the Nominator), respectively.

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* 3. Please provide one reference that knows the scope and extent of the nominee’s activities. This individual may not be the nominator, a relative of the nominee, or the nominee. It is the nominator’s responsibility to please make the reference aware that they may be contacted.

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Describe specific effort(s), initiatives or collaborations where this person exhibited commitment, leadership, impact and creativity in philanthropy. Focus your nomination on recent achievements of the nominee within the past 24 months.

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* 5. How did this person gather and utilize resources including time, talent and financial support for the efforts noted?

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* 6. What is the immediate and/or lasting impact of efforts, initiatives or collaborations on the community?

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* 7. What qualities make the nominee an outstanding leader? (Based on the last 24 months of activity.)

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