CATEGORY: Community Impact

Award Criteria:

Nominees for this award recognize new and better ways to address a need in the community despite the many demands, and sometimes too few resources available. Their efforts have a positive and meaningful impact on the broader community, resulting in clear and measurable change. Nominees in this category demonstrate a commitment to building relationships and collaborating meaningfully with the individuals and communities they serve. They have changed the culture of their organization or worked towards shifting systems by listening to the voices in their community and involving them in solutions and/or processes.

1. Outline how the nominee has made a measurable and meaningful change which has had a noticeable impact on the broader community.
2. How has this nominee demonstrated a commitment to building stronger relationships in the community?
3. Provide examples of how this nominee used their community ties to positively change the culture of their organization.

Please provide one or more of the following pieces of information that will be useful to the Judges in order to make a conclusive decision.

• Letters and/or testimonials with signatures from others who support your nomination, relevant to  the previous calendar year

• Newspaper clippings, social media posts relevant to the previous calendar year

• Promotional material, relevant to the previous calendar year

Please provide a photo(s) that represents you, your organization, or project/program which will be included in a visual presentation. Please provide a high-resolution logo of your organization.

Submissions are based on September 2020 – to September 2022

What's the Process?

1.  Nomination submission must be submitted by the deadline date.

2. The committee will be charged to base their decision solely on the nominee’s accomplishments as documented on the nomination submission.

3.  Each Judges’committee member will review the nominations and rate them on a rate scale 1(lowest) to 5(highest) in each category.

4.  The Judges’ committee will meet as a group and a vote will be taken with each committee member ranking each nominee in the areas of criteria.

5.  The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce will verify the votes and results of the committee.

6.  The nominee with the most committee votes is selected in each category.

7.  In case of a tie the committee will cast a second round vote of the tied candidates only.

8.  Winners will be announced at the annual Cambridge & North Dumfries Community awards in November.

9.  Members of the selection committee are not eligible to be nominated.

10. Nominators are not eligible to serve on the selection committee.

11. All entries will remain the property of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce.

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