The Greater Hudson Heritage Network’s Awards Towards Excellence program seeks to recognize and commend exceptional efforts among GHHN members. Awards are made to projects that exemplify creativity and professional vision resulting in a contribution to the preservation and interpretation of the historic scene, material culture and diversity of the region. Awards will be presented at Greater Hudson’s Annual Meeting, October 2, 2009. Nominations must be made by July 28, 2009.

Any GHHN member organization or individual can be nominated for projects completed by September 30th of the current year. Projects not yet completed must have reached a point sufficient to permit judgment of merit. Self-nominations are encourged.

Awards may be made to organizations or individuals in any or all of the following areas of achievement:

* public programs (including education, exhibition, interpretation),
* publications
* historic preservation
* community documentation and collaboration
* new technology (e.g. website development, blogs, audio tours)
* Board Vision
* advancement of regional history

Nominations reflecting work in 20th century documentation, or re-interpretation of collections are strongly encouraged- nominations of collaborative or regionally-focused projects are especially welcome.

Nominations will be judged on the evidence of quality, creative use of resources, and long-term significance, by a peer jury of professionals, representing the history, museum, archives and/or academic fields.

Late entries will not be eligible for consideration. Details can be found at www.greaterhudson.org/awards. Contact 914.592-6726 or e-mail either [email protected] or [email protected] with questions.