The Affiliate of the Year Award is an honor bestowed on one of NCLR’s affiliated Hispanic-serving organizations for exemplary work in serving its local community and for supporting NCLR’s policy and programmatic initiatives. The award provides NCLR an opportunity to showcase the achievements of an Affiliate and how its accomplishments have made a positive and measurable impact on the lives of Latinos.
The Affiliate of the Year Award provides NCLR an opportunity to showcase the achievements of an outstanding Affiliate - specifically how its accomplishments have made a positive, measurable impact on the lives of Latinos - and to recognize the Affiliate's active participation in NCLR events and support of NCLR's policy and programmatic initiatives.
NCLR is pleased to announce the opening of the application process for its 2010 Affiliate of the Year Program. This year, NCLR will be honoring NCLR Affiliates that have made a positive, measurable impact on the lives of Latinos as well as maintained their support of NCLR's policy and programmatic initiatives.
Complete applications will be due no later than Friday, March 26, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. EST.
A completed application packet has three parts (please see nomination application for formatting guidelines):
- Basic Information:
- A signed application cover sheet
- A narrative describing the nominated organization and its demonstrated impact in the community it serves (such as evaluation results, outcome measurements, and other indicators requested in the narrative questions)
- At least one recommendation letter from other NCLR Affiliates and/or community-based organizations with which the NCLR Affiliate has worked closely during the past year
- Two signed testimonies from families whom the applicant organization has served within the past year (testimonies may be written in Spanish or English)
Please submit application materials to mhernandez@nclr.org no later than March 26, 2010. Please contact Mauricio Hernandez at mhernandez@nclr.org or 202-776-1716 if you have any questions or concerns.


