AAUW-NM Ingenious Ideas Award
Description: Award given annually to AAUW-NM branches for innovative and successful mission-based programs, activities, or governance practices. This award was originally created and inspired by Marjorie Bell Chambers and Gloria Cordova, both long-time AAUW members and mentors.
Purpose: To recognize groundbreaking and outstanding branch programs, activities, fundraising ideas, member recruitment activities, and governance practices. To encourage mission-based programs and provide tested ideas for other branches to replicate.
Criteria (must meet one or more):
- Innovative and successful mission-based branch program
- Successful new branch activity or new collaboration (within the past 3 years)
- Innovative and successful membership recruitment activity
- Innovative and successful fundraising activity
- New and successful governance practice (within the past 3 years)
| Who nominates | Branch board, council, or president/facilitator |
| Nomination deadline | March 17 |
| Nomination process | Complete a nomination form on the AAUW-NM website and send to AAUW-NM Awards Chair. |
| Selection process | AAUW-NM Awards Committee chooses winner. |
| When awarded | AAUW-NM convention |
| Award | Check for $75 to one branch for best idea. All nominations that meet one or more award criteria are recognized at convention, published in Summer Roadrunner, and posted on AAUW-NM website. |
| Award budget | $75 |
| Review cycle | Reviewed by Leadership Team every four years. |