DeMayo Bright Futures Innovation Award

Overview

_NOTE: This award is by nomination only._

Award Information

The Fund for Williamstown seeks nominations for the DeMayo Bright Futures Innovation Award. The award recognizes organizations, institutions, businesses or individuals who create new approaches to solving community challenges and/or who enhance life in Williamstown through innovative programs that do not currently exist in the community.

This award is presented to those demonstrating an exceptional degree of innovation and creativity, resulting in significant community impact. It recognizes non-traditional approaches to solving community challenges and/or to enhancing life in our community.

The DeMayo Bright Futures Innovation Award is named in memory of Dick DeMayo and in honor of Carol DeMayo, a couple dedicated to creating brighter futures for all through kindness and concern for others, and with the best interest of the community at the heart of their work.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Who can apply:
* Organizations, institutions, businesses or individuals may be nominated if they are passionate about solving community challenges with innovative practices in Williamstown, Mass.
* The award must be used for a charitable purpose.

Ineligibility

* Self-nominations and posthumous nominations will not be accepted.
\Self-nomination is when paid staff members nominate themselves or a colleague for a specific project, event, organization or company that pays them as an employee.
* All others, including board members and volunteers associated with the individual specific project or event, organization or company, may put forward a nomination.
* No current Fund for Williamstown committee member may be nominated.
* Past award recipients are not eligible for re-nomination within a three-year period.