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Outstanding Achievement in Volunteer Management
The “Outstanding Achievement in Volunteer
Management” award goes to a volunteer manager who
has demonstrated excellence in running a volunteer
program. This provides executive directors the
unique opportunity to do something great for a
hard-working and committed volunteer manager.
It also reinforces the professionalism and expertise
that so many volunteer managers possess but are
rarely recognized for. The award will be
presented at DOVIA’s annual meeting in November.
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Nomination Deadline:
Nominations are accepted until October 22, 2007
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Outstanding DOVIA Member
The Outstanding DOVIA member award is presented to a DOVIA
member who has contributed a substantial amount of service and
effort in promoting the DOVIA mission.
This is your opportunity as a DOVIA member to honor a fellow
professional who has donated many hours to making DOVIA the
successful organization it is.
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Nomination Deadline:
Nominations are accepted until November 10, 2008
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The Marlene Wilson Award for Commitment to the Profession is
named in honor of Marlene Wilson, one of the highly respected
pioneers of volunteer management. This prestigious award is
presented to an individual or organization. The winner has a
minimum of 10 years experience or 10 years of support in the
field of volunteer resources management and is held in high
esteem by colleagues.
The honoree is active in local, regional or national
organizations devoted to volunteerism and has also supported the
profession through collaboration, mentoring, and training.
The Marlene
Wilson Award also reinforces the professionalism and expertise
that so many volunteer managers possess. The award will be
presented at DOVIA’s annual meeting in November.
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We Count on You Award
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Individual Award
The “We Count on You”
award affords a wonderful opportunity to show
appreciation and recognition to a star volunteer
within your non-profit organization. There are two
categories for nominees for this award,
Individual and Group Award. Unlike most award opportunities, every
volunteer nominated will also be recognized. Both
the nominee and the nominator will be invited as
well as any special guests your volunteer may want
to include. The award and certificates will be
presented at a luncheon with the DOVIA Recognition
Committee and representatives from other community
organizations. Nominees submitted previously, but
not chosen as a winner of the DOVIA “We Count on
You” award, can be resubmitted. Please note that the
deadline for this award is April 16, 2007. This is your
chance to do something special for a volunteer who
does so much for you.
Youth Award
Presented to an individual youth who has
demonstrated outstanding commitment, enthusiasm and
creativity to the promotion of volunteerism through
his/her work in the community. This commitment is
demonstrated specifically through sustained activity
and/or effect over a period of time. The individual
or group acts as a role model for other youth in the
community and generates interest in volunteerism in
other group. Age qualification under 21.
Youth Group Award
Presented to youth group volunteers who
have demonstrated outstanding commitment, enthusiasm
and creativity to the promotion of volunteerism
through his/her work in the community. This
commitment is demonstrated specifically through
sustained activity and/or effect over a period of
time. The individual or group acts as a role model
for other youth in the community and generates
interest in volunteerism in other group. Age
qualification under 21.
Nomination Deadline: April
16, 2007
Banquet Date: May
4, 2007, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm, Denver Merchandise Mart
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2008
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2007
Winners
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YOUTH AWARD -
Katie Marble - Family Tree
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BOARD
MEMBER AWARD
Kevin Kelley - Attention Homes |
INDIVIDUAL AWARD
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Debranne Hamilton -
Arvada Police Department / Arvada Child Advocacy
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GROUP
AWARD -
Adaptive Equipment Volunteers /
Hamilton School |
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Karen Paterson
Scholarship
Karen Paterson was a
very special woman and a leader in our field. She exemplified
the best and the brightest in nonprofit management. Karen worked
at Safehouse in Boulder, Project Angel Heart and the Denver
Mental Health Corporation as the Volunteer Manager. During these
years Karen also earned her masters degree in Nonprofit
Management from Regis University where she was honored with a
Graduate level award in her name: The Karen A. Patterson Award
for Community/ Organizational Change. Karen was very involved
with her professional community serving on the board of Denver
DOVIA and doing her masters thesis project with the
International Association of Volunteer Administration. Karen
accomplished all of this before she was 35. It is amazing what
an incredible impact Karen had and continues to have on her
community. It is something for us all to aspire to.
We honor Karen not for what she did but for who she
was; she was a great collaborator, she was the best networker I
ever met, and she understood the value of mentorship, both
giving and receiving. And most importantly at the end of her
life she lived the Seize-the- Day principle, living every day to
the fullest. These are important qualities for a professional in
our field. It is Karen’s honor that DOVIA has created the
Karen Patterson scholarship for selected recipients who will,
through the largess of this organization, learn the principles
of volunteer management -that Karen held near and dear.
Jill Friedman-Fixler
DOVIA Annual Meeting
November 1998
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2006 Winners
Mark Smith,
Lakewood
Heritage
Center
Sean Wolfe, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Nomination Deadline:
Nominations are accepted until November 10, 2008
Previous Award Winners
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Life Time
Achievement Awards
Marlene Wilson and Ivan Scheier
In celebration of
Denver DOVIA's 25th
Anniversary on
October 24,
1997,
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
awards were presented to:
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IVAN SCHEIER
Ivan Scheier, PhD is
known for his professional on-site consulting for volunteer
programs and citizen participation efforts in the US and Canada
since 1967. This includes involvement in over 100 publications
including a dozen books on volunteering; serving on commissions
for the White House Conference on Children and Youth, the
National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and
Goals and the National Forum on Volunteerism. This is only a
small list of the many accomplishments and honors Ivan has
received. He also served as the Director of Voluntas: The Center
for Creative Community, headquartered in Madrid, New Mexico.
Ivan is known as the grandfather to organizations
known as DOVIA's, "DOV's" " Associations," " Councils," or
"Clusters." Nearly all exist to enhance the profession of
volunteer management and to network with others. It was Ivan,
who introduced us to the role of the "Dream Catcher."
MARLENE WILSON
Marlene Wilson is
internationally know as one of the foremost authorities and
dynamic trainers in the field of volunteer management. Since
1972, more than 150,000 people from volunteer organizations and
churches have attended her workshops in the U.S., Canada, and
Europe.
Her methods are based on many years of experience in
the public and private sectors, as well as the church arena.
Marlene worked in human resources management for six years. When
she later became director of a Volunteer Center, she applied her
corporate experience to organizing volunteer programs. Since
1975, Marlene has served as president of her own publishing and
consulting firm, Volunteer Management Associates.
Both Ivan Scheier and Marlene Wilson founded the
Volunteer Program at Colorado University in Boulder in 1972. The
program has trained several thousand volunteer directors
throughout its' 25 years. Marlene served as the spark and
faculty director with Ivan providing training through most of
its remarkable existence. When discussions began about creating
a volunteer management association in the Denver area, Marlene
and Ivan provided their expertise in helping in the formation of
the organization we now know as Denver DOVIA.
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