The NAPABA Affiliate of the Year Award recognizes outstanding NAPABA affiliates for their best practices and accomplishments in their local communities.  This is an opportunity to nominate your affiliate and recognize its recent achievements over the past year. NAPABA may select up to two (2) affiliates for this award, an affiliate with less than 100 members and affiliate with 100 or more members.

Award Qualifications 

Please be advised that awardees must be: 

• Current with their NAPABA membership, and 
• Present to be eligible to receive the award.

Selection Criteria 

The awardees will be selected based on the following information: 

• Membership
• Finances
• Key Programs and Events
• Community Involvement
• Communications
• Challenges
• Helping NAPABA Locally, Nationally, and Internationally

Required Materials  

The following information must be provided in order for the nomination to be accepted for consideration. 

1. Include a cover letter (maximum of 2 pages) with your submission, summarizing why you believe your affiliate is most deserving of the Affiliate of the Year Award.
2. A list of required questions to include with your nomination can be downloaded in Word  or PDF . Limit your responses in each Section to a maximum of one page for each section (Sections I-VII). You may write your responses directly in the Word document or in a separate document in essay, bullet-point, table/chart, graphics, or other form, so long as the responses to each complete section fit on the front of one single page.
3. List of current officers and board members. 
4. Event photos, which may include brief captions, may be attached, but no appendices or extra attachments to the application will be allowed or considered.