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The Selection Process for the ENCORE! Lakeshore Awards
Through a community nomination process, a select panel of community members have chosen seven people who will inspire, uplift, educate, enlighten and encourage our community. Resthaven has celebrated the "retirement" lives of these incredible people at a gala held on October 15, 2009 at Macatawa Legends.
Following the event, those honored with the ENCORE! Lakeshore Awards will conduct public interviews through the media and will be invited to participate in a local lecture tour that will involve visiting area clubs, schools and student groups.
If your group would like to have any of the ENCORE! Lakeshore Award winners speak at your function, call Mark deRoo at (616)796-3506 or click here.
Panel of Community Members
We wish to offer heartfelt thanks to our 2009 panel of community members: Deborah Sterken (Chair) Tom Arendshorst, Virgil Gulker, Steve Hoogewerf, Ginger Jurries, Stan Koster, Karen Mulder, Karen Sanchez, Jackie Timmer, and George Zuidema.
Who was Eligible?
To be eligible for the ENCORE! Lakeshore Award, a nominee must:
- Be at least 70-years-old (by the deadline of August 22, 2009).
- Be an innovator, contribute to positive social change, or serve as an inspirational role model after the age of 65. ENCORE! Lakeshore
nominees combine personal meaning and social or productive impact through new or continued efforts in the latter stage of life.
- Have demonstrated “encore” creativity and leadership with the promise of more to come.
- Be a person of high integrity.
Please note that elected officials were not eligible for the ENCORE! Lakeshore Awards. Individuals working in faith-based service organizations which have a broader social mission were eligible, and we encouraged their nominations. However, the purpose of their project could not be strictly religious or sectarian, in that it is confined exclusively to individuals within a denomination OR for the sole purpose of expanding the religious mission of the denomination or faith.
Selection Categories
Applicants are evaluated on the following categories:
- Has the person been an outstanding social contributor after age 65 who has worked creatively to spearhead significant change? How important is the need, issue, or process the person has addressed? How much of an impact has his or her work had on this need, issue, or process?
- Has the person been an innovator? Has the person started or invented some important change or developed a new venture (independently, or within an organization) in an encore effort after age 65, demonstrating creativity and leadership, and promising more to come?
- Have the person’s activities or achievements lifted the spirits and lives of others and/or provided key leadership? How has this person’s effort been significant?
Looking Forward to the 2011 Awards
We sincerely hope that there is an inspiring person in your life whom you would like to nominate for the 2011 awards! Nominations will open early in the summer of 2011. |
Stuart Padnos in his workshop with one of his favorite sculptures. |