Diversity Award

This award recognizes an individual or organization for outstanding efforts in promoting ethnic and gender diversity in the natural resource professions, especially wildlife conservation and education. Recognized activities may focus on encouraging ethnic and gender diversity in the workforce, academic enrollment, or organizational membership.

Criteria

Both individuals and organizations are eligible for the award. Individuals include anyone participating in a natural resource field. Organizations include public agencies, institutions of higher education, companies, and non-governmental organizations.

Evaluation criteria for individuals are as follows:

Leadership
Innovation
Tangible Results

Evaluation criteria for organizations are as follows:

Innovation and Creativity
Resource Investment
Overcoming Challenges and Obstacles
Sustained Efforts
Tangible Results

Nomination Instructions

Nominations may be self-nominated or submitted by a second party. Include both a letter of nomination and at least one letter of support from another source.

Email all materials as a single PDF file to both Jeanne Jones at jjones@cfr.msstate.edu and Yanin Walker at yanin@wildlife.org by March 15, 2013. Include contact information for the primary nominator and for the supporting reference(s).