Board of Governors Excellence Award Nomination Form

The Yale Alumni Association aims to recognize the accomplishments of alumni organizations and initiatives through the Board of Governors Excellence Awards. These awards complement those for individual volunteers, such as the Yale Medal and the YAA Leadership Awards.

General Judging Criteria

Enhances the reputation of Yale while also supporting the mission of Yale, the Alumni Association and the organization, or school.
Meets goals and objectives of organization’s strategic plan (if one exists).
Evidence of sound planning, implementation, creativity, innovation and effective communications.
Consultative and broad-based engagement of organization’s leaders (not a one-person show…).
Is a role model for other Yale alumni organizations.
Meets the needs and expectations of target audiences.
Complements Yale’s institutional goals and initiatives.

Rules and Guidelines

Nominations for awards can be made by any Yale alumni, including the leaders of the relevant alumni group, or any other alumni who are familiar with its activities. If you would like to nominate a group and are not also the president or chair of the given organization, please gain the president’s assent before submitting the nomination.
Applications must be submitted in a timely fashion in accordance with accepted deadlines.
The award selection committee prioritizes applications where a significant part of the nominated activities take place between July and June.
The award selection committee will only consider one nomination per alumni group per category or event.
Awards need not be given every year.
No organization can win the same award more than two years in a row, and must retire from that category for at least one year before submitting again.
Winning organizations must have representative(s) at the YAA Assembly to receive the award.

SPECIAL NOTE: There are only two Award Categories for which you may provide supplementary material (up to 4 images or pages) beyond the online nomination form text, if there is a visual element that is central to the nomination-- "Best Marketing, Branding and Communications Effort" and "Most Creative Use of Technology and Social Networking Media."

Nominee Contact Information

Alumni Organization

Organization Officer Name

Officer Email

Officer Phone Number

Event, Program or Effort proposed for the award

Web link for this program (if applicable)

Alumni Organization Location (City/State/Country)

Nomination Details

Award Category

Describe how the program or event that your group organized demonstrated excellence.

How did this group or event support the mission of a) your group or school and b) the Alumni Association and Yale?

How does this program or event serve as a role model for the other Yale alumni groups?

What was the benefit of this program or event to participants and, if applicable, to the Yale community or the community at large?

Describe any aspects of this program or event that were particularly creative or innovative.

Supplementary Materials

There are only two Award Categories for which you may provide supplementary material (up to 4 images or pages) beyond the online nomination form text, if there is a visual element that is central to the nomination: "Best Marketing, Branding and Communications Effort" and "Most Creative Use of Technology and Social Networking Media."
Maximum 4 files.
100 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, png, bmp, eps, tif, pict, psd, txt, rtf, html, odf, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, xml, avi, mov, mp3, ogg, wav, bz2, dmg, gz, jar, rar, sit, svg, tar, zip.

Nominator Contact Information

Nominator First Name

Nominator Last Name

Nominator Email Address

Daytime Phone Number