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Friend of IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Nomination Form
The Friend of IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Award was created to specifically recognize support provided to the IEEE and its members in support of its goals by firms, divisions of firms or individuals.
There are two types of Friend of IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Awards: Individual and Organizational . In addition, each award can be earned at two levels: Supporting and Sustaining Friend .
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ELIGIBILITY
Individual Awards will be given to those individuals that have provided recurrent or unusually intense help to a member volunteer of the Institute. Generally, recipients of this award are not eligible for IEEE membership. Typical recipients might be administrative assistants, secretaries, fellow workers that are not engineers, local business people, etc. Organizational Awards are provided to those companies, or divisions of a company that encourage volunteerism through its practices. In particular, the atmosphere created by the company should be to facilitate the IEEE volunteer(s) to do his or her job. Examples of this atmosphere would be: time off to travel to IEEE meetings, full or partial reimbursement of travel and/or per diem, offering company space to conduct IEEE meetings, encouraging and/or promoting membership in professional organizations, underwriting all or a portion of IEEE dues for its members, or supporting the volunteer by permitting free or discounted use of company resources for such things as telephone, fax, electronic mail, printing newsletters and/or other circulars. Supporting Friend Award. It is up to the volunteer to nominate an individual or company for the award. The nominator will submit a one page typed justification to the Member and Geographic Activities Board Awards and Recognition Committee (MGA ARC) on why the award should be given to the individual or firm nominated. Specific examples of support are required, generalized and unsupported statements will not be sufficient. In general, the proposed recipient should have a long (minimum of one full year) history of providing support to the volunteer. Supporting awards can be made for truly extraordinary examples of singular events, for example, assistance provided to host an IEEE conference or meeting. Winners must wait at least one year from receipt of the award before they can be resubmitted for another Friend of IEEE Regional Activities award. Sustaining Friend Award. Recipients of these awards must meet all of the conditions of the Supporting Award and must have demonstrated this support for a minimum period of three years and must have won a supporting award at least once during the period in question, usually three to five years. The nominator will submit a one to two page typed justification to MGA ARC on why the award should be given to the individual or firm nominated.Requests for Sustaining Friend awards made to companies or to senior individuals within companies should be endorsed by an appropriate number of IEEE members to indicate that the support provided is genuine and broadly based. Sustaining Friend awards are not given for singular events. Winners must wait at least three years from receipt of the Sustaining Friend award before they can be resubmitted for another Sustaining Friend award. However, recipients can be resubmitted for a Supporting award after one year.
THE AWARD INSTRUMENT
Friend awards made to administrative assistants, secretaries or others may be awarded a framed parchment certificate. The nominator should state if the award is for a plaque or certificate.
AWARD DEADLINE
Submit nomination online. MGA ARC can at its discretion downgrade a Sustaining Friend award to a Supporting award if it feels that there is insufficient justification for the higher award. In these cases the nominator will be contacted and told of the decision. If the nominator chooses, he/she may elect not to have the lesser award and resubmit the nomination for the higher award with added justification. Contact Information:
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