The Heart of Chesapeake Country Heritage Area (HCCHA) is accepting nominations for the 2018 Heritage Awards to recognize and celebrate those individuals and organizations within the community that have helped to preserve and promote Dorchester County’s unique cultural, historical and natural resources.
The nomination deadline has been extended to September 17, 2018.
The annual Heritage Awards focus on four distinct categories:
– Individual Achievement, which recognizes a person for his/her contributions to the heritage community by interpreting, preserving, promoting, researching and/or supporting local history and cultural traditions.
– Business Partner, which recognizes a for-profit partner that demonstrates sustained commitment to heritage preservation and/or promotion, including historic preservation, cultural or natural resource stewardship, advocacy, or heritage tourism opportunities in the Heart of Chesapeake Country.
– Outstanding Project, which recognizes an exceptional project, event or activity conducted/sponsored by an organization, business, individual or local government that highlights Dorchester’s natural or cultural heritage and/or increases public awareness of its history, heritage and cultural traditions.
– Organizational Excellence, which recognizes an organization or local government entity that demonstrates sustained achievement in contributing to heritage preservation, promotion, interpretation or tourism efforts.
Nominations are due no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17. Any individual or organization may submit an award nomination – and self-nominations also are encouraged. For more information about the criteria for each category, download the online guidelines here.
There are three very simple ways to nominate someone:
1) Complete an online nomination form, upload any supporting documents and click “submit.”
2) Request a paper nomination form by emailing julie@visitdorchester.org, and email the completed form to: julie@visitdorchester.org.
3) Complete the paper nomination form, print and mail to the attention of Julie Gilberto-Brady, Heart of Chesapeake Country Heritage Area, 2 Rose Hill Place, Cambridge, MD 21613
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