Award Criteria

This award recognizes creative applications and nontraditional approaches to solving community challenges. Nominated nonprofit innovations should:
  • Bring solutions to community challenges by using current solutions or strategies in new and creative ways or by bringing new solutions to a common problem;
  • Focus on doing things differently, rather than just doing things better;
  • Take new ideas and implements them successfully with measurable outcomes;
  • Employ a variety of strategies in developing these solutions; and
  • May collaborate with other nonprofit organizations, businesses and governmental agencies in their efforts.

To view survey questions to prepare responses, click here.

Nominations are due no later than 8 a.m. on Monday, May 18.

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