2025 Neighborhood Summit Awards Nominations

Once again, the Neighborhood Summit will be recognizing significant contributors to our City's communities with four awards: Community Catalyst of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Rookie of the Year, and, following this year's theme, the Place-based Champion

Nominations are now being accepted for the following awards:

A volunteer in a community organization whose energy and ideas lead to a project or program that gets community members involved and excited, that produces good outcomes and results in increased neighborhood engagement

This award will be given to an individual, inside or outside of a community organization, whose life and work has benefited all of Cincinnati, through creating inclusiveness, increasing the viability of community activities and organizations, and supporting neighborhoods and neighborhood leaders.

Rookie of the Year
With this award, we recognize that hard work and dedication to positive change in our neighborhoods isn’t just something undertaken by the old hats and hands. This award is for the under-30 (ish) newcomers who are bringing passion, fierce commitment, and new forms of organizing and activism to make our city a better place for all.

This award goes to an individual, organization, or group for an outstanding place-based project or program that demonstrates the need for communities, organizations, and businesses to work collaboratively with the local assets and services to solve a community problem.