Crissy Field Center Heroes

2009 Crissy Field Center Community Heroes Award
 
Call for Nominations     
The Crissy Field Center, an urban environmental center, announces open nominations for its most prestigious awards program – The Community Heroes Award.  This award honors the accomplishments, challenges and successes of community members who work tirelessly to preserve, protect, and raise awareness about our environment.
 
The Center’s Community Advisors selects Community Heroes from your nominations.  Heroes who are selected are honored with a ceremony at Crissy Field Center on Saturday, May 2, 2009, where we unveil a year-long exhibit depicting each of the honorees in life-size photographic portraits and companion digital stories that share their unique experience making positive environmental change in their communities.
 
Each year, the Crissy Field Center hosts approximately 60,000 visitors from around the Bay Area including youth and adults, political luminaries, environmental leaders and local celebrities – each and every one of these visitors is greeted by the Community Heroes exhibit!
 
This is an opportunity for unsung heroes and community leaders to share the limelight and receive well-deserved recognition for their valuable contributions and positive impact regarding the environment.
 
How Can I Help?
The Crissy Field Center is now accepting nominations for the 2009 Community Heroes Award.  We are asking you to think about individuals or groups in the San Francisco Bay Area who have made a positive impact and inspired others with their single action or on-going work.  If you feel their story is compelling and worthy of recognition, please sponsor their nomination for the Community Heroes Awards Program by completing the enclosed form.
 
There can be no Community Heroes without you!  Help us acknowledge the heroes among us and submit a nomination.  Tell us about the work they have done, are currently doing and why they should be recognized.
 
Nominations must be received no later than Monday, December 1, 2008
 
Who are Community Heroes?
Community Heroes are people from all over the Bay Area and from all walks of life.  They come from all races, ethnic backgrounds and age groups, working in common to protect, restore, and raise awareness for the environmental issues that are relevant to their communities.  Many are engaged in grass-roots activism, others work on legislation, and several are educators.  Many call themselves volunteers, while others have built careers working in the environmental movement.
 
Whatever their approach, methodology, or position, they all fit one very important criterion: their work has made a positive impact on the community and has inspired others to get involved and make a difference.

Click here to Download the form and Nominate a Hero now!

Every year, the Crissy Field Center honors Bay Area Community Heroes that work to improve their local environment.  Nominations take place each winter and award recipients are honored in May at the Center's Community Heroes Awards.  Please stop by the Crissy Field Center to view the video exhibit showcasing the winners and their efforts. View their stories online on the pages linked below:


2008
2008 Community Heroes

2007
2007 Community Heroes

2006
2006 Award Recipients

2005
2005 Award Recipients

2004
2004 Award Recipients

2003
2003 Award Recipients

2002
2002 Award Recipients

2001
2001 Award Recipient

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