Partner Opportunity: Points of Light
Nominate a Volunteer for the Cabot Community Celebrity Award
This is a Partner Opportunity from Points of Light. Do you know of an outstanding volunteer? Nominate them for the Cabot Community Celebrity Award. Cabot Creamery Cooperative will honor the winning celebrities with an 8 day / 7 night Alaskan Cruise, with stops in beautiful Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway as well as Victoria, British Columbia. Since 2010, the farmer-owners of Cabot Creamery Cooperative have presented the Cabot Community Celebrity Award program to honor the achievements and contributions of volunteers from every part of our great nation. The deadline to nominate a volunteer is May 2, 2016. Learn more and nominate an outstanding volunteer here.
Interested to learn who received this award? We were: The Carter Work Project
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Next Partner Oppertunity: Points of Light
Consider nominating a volunteer for a daily point of light award. Millions of people act on their power to do good every day, using their hearts, hands and minds to help strengthen communities and solve persistent problems. We recognize their individual stories, and lift them up to inspire others so we may each, in our own way, answer the call to make a difference.
Eligibility & Criteria
- Residency: Award nominees must be legal U.S. residents.
- Service: All volunteer activities must be unpaid and cannot include court-ordered community service. Nominees who receive a nominal stipend for their service or receive paid time off to volunteer are eligible.
- Timeline: Volunteer service must last for six uninterrupted months and still be ongoing (except disaster relief work).
- Impact: Work should demonstrate real impact from the activity. Examples include number of people served, money raised, etc.
- Community need: Activity must meet a community need or concern. Nominee must have sustainability plans for their activity (ex. working with community organizations to continue their work, empowering service recipients to continue their work, etc.).
Learn more about the award and engage with Points of Light.