Developing and Managing Awards: The Deutsch Foundation’s HALO Award
Challenge
The Deutsch Foundation was interested in developing an award that would both reward individual volunteers doing exemplary work with local nonprofits and help those organizations strengthen the ways in which they recruit, utilize, and retain their volunteers.
Approach
JMC assessed the value in creating an award focused on volunteerism, benchmarked the field to learn how other awards are designed and managed, created a process and criteria for selection, and formed a committee of community-based leaders to select the winners. JMC conducted the outreach and managed the overall implementation of the award.
Result
In 2011, the inaugural year of the award, seven exceptional non-profit volunteer pairs were selected as HALO Award winners out of a pool of 130 candidates. Chosen by a committee of nonprofit leaders, each winning organization received a $20,000 grant to help strengthen their volunteer efforts, which was paired with a $5,000 reward given directly to an outstanding volunteer who had gone ‘above and beyond’ in his or her service to the partner nonprofit and the community. In addition, each winning organization was offered three expert-led coaching sessions focused on increasing their impact and capacity in the volunteerism area. Today, the HALO Award continues its annual recognition of nonprofit volunteers and support of volunteer programs.
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