The annual STAR Awards are ISAE's opportunity to recognize the great achievements of our members.
Work completed during the
2025 calendar year is eligible for consideration in this year’s STAR Awards.
Review this year's award categories:
- Exemplary Communications/Marketing Campaign - An exemplary, new or unique way your association marketed a program/event or communicated with its membership. Successful submissions should detail the campaign's objective and goals, as well as how those objectives were achieved. It should highlight the creativity of the campaign and how that creativity conveys the message of the organization. Submissions can include, but are not limited to, print advertising, social media, web, email, etc.
- Exemplary Membership Program - A recruitment, retention, new member, lapsed member, or education program with results that exceeded your expectations. These programs can be general, focused on a particular hot-button topic specific to your members, or on a particular program, initiative, or product. Be sure to include the measurable goals and outcomes. What was the feedback from your members? How do you know it worked? What can other ISAE members learn from your entry, and how could they replicate it?
- Golden Shoestring - No Money? No Problem! Tell us how you successfully met a challenge head-on with a budget of under $5,000.
- Impactful Community Philanthropic Program - Entries must include public service programs that involved and benefit the greater community and surrounding areas beyond the confines of the specific association.
- Outstanding Annual Convention - Entries must be a convention that benefits your membership and makes a positive impact on your organization.
- Outstanding Government Affairs Program - Entries should outline how the legislative-specific government affairs program successfully lobbied elected officials or public agencies on a member issue on a local, state, or national level.
- Outstanding Individual Program/Event - Any single-day, non-convention event planned by the association for the membership. The focus of the event could be education, advocacy, networking, etc.
Nominations are due by
Friday, January 9, 2026. Late submissions will not be accepted.
