Telluride Foundation: Nominations Open for 2024 Volunteer of the Year! Applications Due by 9/16!

31 Aug Telluride Foundation: Nominations Open for 2024 Volunteer of the Year! Applications Due by 9/16!

The Telluride Foundation announces nominations are officially open for the Telluride Foundation’s 2024 Volunteer of the Year Award. This year marks the 21st anniversary of the award.

Nomination form is posted and must be submitted on the Telluride Foundation’s website at https://telluridefoundation.org/volunteer-of-the-year/.

Nominations are due by 5pm, September 16th. Anyone is invited to nominate a fellow community member. Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee and interviews may be conducted to learn more about the nominees and bring to life their community contributions.

Please contact Courtney Groves at courtney@telluridefoundation.org with any questions.

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David Sussman, 2023 Volunteer of the Year.

Nominations are officially open for the Telluride Foundation’s 2024 Volunteer of the Year Award. This year marks the 21st anniversary of the award, which recognizes community members who unselfishly contribute to the improvement of our region through volunteerism, community service, or philanthropy. The award aims to recognize local heroes among us who consistently donate their time and energy to important causes that have a positive impact on quality of life in our region.

Community and nonprofit leaders are encouraged to think about the people who are making an impact – specifically those who are working in an unpaid capacity on important issues that our region faces. One of the things that makes our region so special is its strong sense of community responsibility and philanthropy. There are countless individuals donating their time and energy to address challenges in health, human services, environment, education, arts and culture, athletics, and more. Please support the Telluride Foundation’s efforts to recognize these superstars by submitting a nomination.

“The Volunteer of the Year Award is a celebration of people and their impact on our community; we really want to encourage community and nonprofit leaders, as well as all residents to think about the people who are making a difference in your life and your community,” said Telluride Foundation President and CEO, Jason Corzine. “We hope you will consider nominating them and helping to give them the recognition they deserve.”

Award winners will receive a $5,000 grant from the Foundation to be given in their name to a regional nonprofit of their choice. A community celebration will also be held in October to honor the winners.

The 2024 Volunteer of the Year will share this honor with Terry Tice (2003), Lissa Margetts (2004), John Micetic (2005), Bill Carstens (2006), John Pryor and Jane Hickcox (2007), Kathy Green (2008), Marilyn Branch (2009), Dan and Greer Garner and Andrea Benda (2010) and Billy “Senior” Mahoney (2011), Anne Brady (2012), Dean Rolley (2013), Kristin Holbrook (2014), Gary Freedman (2015), Elaine Fischer (2016), Wendy Brooks (2017), Susan Rice (2018), Barb Gross (2019), and San Miguel County Search and Rescue (2020) and the Ouray County Good Neighbor Fund Founders: Cat & Barthold Lichtenbelt and Marti & Partick O’Leary (2020), Corinne Cavender, Lollie Lavercombe, Cara Wilder (2021), and Claudia Garcia Curzió, Julia Millan Avila, Andres Jacinto Alonzo (2022), and David Sussman (2023).

Nomination Guidelines

• Nominee must be a community member within the Telluride Foundation’s service area, which includes San Miguel, Ouray, west Montrose counties and Rico.

• Nominees will be selected based on unselfish and extraordinary contributions to the community that include volunteerism, collaboration, leadership, and compassion.

• Nominees in paid positions that represent these traits are eligible; however, the nomination must be based on their non-paid work.

• Telluride Foundation board members and staff are not eligible.

•The award is designed for a single individual; however, exceptions may be made based on nominees.

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Telluride Foundation sign by metal artist Lisa Issenberg

The Telluride Foundation is committed to enriching the quality of life of the residents, workforce, and visitors of the Telluride region. It is a nonprofit, apolitical community foundation that makes grants and runs programs in arts, education, health and human services, community development, and social enterprises.

The Foundation strives to achieve excellence for the community through its mission and core values of inclusion, self-reliance, and innovation.

The work is funded through the generous support of hundreds of donors and grants from state and national foundations.

Pease visit telluridefoundation.org.