Assessment Criteria:
Below you will find detailed descriptions of the assessment criteria for the three award categories. As a nominator, you must provide clear evidence that the nominee's contribution has excelled in all criteria.
Longevity:
This criterion is worth a maximum of five points.
- Describe how the nominee's actions and activities have made a long-term impact in the community.
- Assess how long the nominee has been active in the community.
Leadership:
This criterion is worth a maximum of five points.
- Indicate how the nominee has shown leadership to help their community take action to solve local problems or address local priorities.
- Describe what the nominee has done to help their community sustain activities that have brought about community-wide benefits.
- Describe how the nominee has made the community or community organization stronger.
- Describe how they have demonstrated leadership in developing solutions to local problems or priorities. Did the nominee employ innovative practices and experiment with new approaches to find solutions to local challenges and priorities?
Impact:
This criterion is worth a maximum of fifteen points. Impact is the depth of the nominee's contribution and is one of the key considerations in the assessment process. The nomination text for Individual, For-Profit Business and Not-for-Profit should describe how the nominee's contribution has made a difference in the community.
- Describe how the nominee's actions have made a lasting impact.
- Indicate whether these activities addressed a priority in their community and how that priority was identified. For example, Is there a significant financial contribution?
- Provide the evidence that exists to support the impact and its immediate effect.
- Point out whether the nominee built sustainability into their activities and, if so, in what way. For instance, indicate if the nominee accessed diverse sources of funding.
Reach:
This criterion is worth a maximum of fifteen points. The reach of the contribution for the Warden’s Community Service Award should describe who benefited from the nominee's contribution.
- Specify whether the beneficiaries of the nominee's activities are individuals, groups or the community as a whole.
- If the contribution benefited a group, indicate approximately how many people and whether the benefit has expanded to include other beneficiaries since the initial activity.
- Indicate whether the contribution has expanded beyond the nominee's community to benefit other communities or groups.
Engagement:
This criterion is worth a maximum of five points.
- Describe how the nominee's contributions to their community sparked others to become involved. For instance, describe how the nominee engaged others in their efforts to make a difference in the community.
- Indicate if the nominee leveraged resources from others to address social challenges, and whether that leveraging of resources has sustained the solution to overcome the problem or address the priority.
- Point out whether the nominee mobilized other people and resources towork toward common goals and the degree to which other partners were involved in the nominee's contributions and actions.
- Describe how the nominee engaged others in collective efforts to make a difference in their community.
- Indicate if the nominee leveraged resources from others, and whether that leveraging of resources has sustained the solution to overcome a problem or address a priority in the community. For instance, point out whether the nominee mobilized other Not-For-Profits, community organizations and private-sector companies to work toward common goals and the degree to which other partners were involved in the nominee's contributions and actions.
- In the For-Profit Business category, indicate if the nominee leveraged resources from others to address challenges and whether that leveraging of resources has sustained the solution to overcome a problem or address a priority in the community. Point out whether the nominee mobilized people and resources to work toward common goals. Reveal whether the nominee developed programs or put in place support measures to help employees volunteer in, or donate to, their community and, if so, describe how these programs and support measures work and the impact they had.
Challenges:
This criterion is worth a maximum of five points.
- Describe how the nominee has overcome challenges to make a contributionin their community.
- For the individual category, indicate the external challenges, such as living in a remote or rural location that the nominee has had to overcome to make a difference in the community.
- For the Not-for-Profit or Business category, describe how the nominee has overcome challenges to make a contribution in the community. For instance, consider if the nominee is a small organization or small business. Is the nominee located in a rural or remote area?
Inspiration:
This criterion is worth a maximum of five points.
- For the individual category, has the nominee become a role model to others in their community, or in the community group in which the nominee makes their contribution? For instance, describe to what extent the nominee mentored others, formally or informally, on how to become involved in helping the community. Indicate how the nominee shared their experiences and knowledge, and the people with whom they shared it.
- When nominating a Not-for-Profit organization for the Warden’s Community Service Award the nomination should describe how the nominee has become a role model within the community. For instance, indicate whether the nominee is a role model within the Not-for-Profit sector. Describe to what extent the nominee mentored others, formally or informally, on how to become involved in helping the community. Indicate how the nominee shared their experiences, knowledge and expertise with other Not-for-Profit and community organizations.
- When nominating a For-Profit business, describe how the nominee has become a role model within the business community. For instance, indicate whether the nominee is a role model in terms of its business practices within the business community. Describe to what extent the nominee mentored others, formally or informally, on how to become involved in helping the community. Indicate how the nominee shared its experiences,knowledge and expertise with Not-for-Profit groups, community organizations and other businesses.
