We are requesting you all to circulate the nomination package and nominate individuals for our North American Zarathushti Community Awards.
As you may know, these awards will be given out at the North American Congress in December 2014 at Los Angles, CA.
There are 7 award categories:
- Outstanding Zarathushti Student Award
- Outstanding Young Zarathushti Award
- Excellence in Performing Arts, Painting or Literature Award
- Excellence in Business or Profession Award
- Humanitarian Service Award
- Outstanding Zarathushti Award
- North American Mobeds Council (NAMC) Community Services Award
The Awards Committee would like receive at minimum 3-4 applications for each award category – for your reference, a minimum of 2 applications is required for there to be a recipient for an award category. We are therefore asking each and every association and corresponding member association to nominate at least 2 individuals from their community. We know that we have the talent within our community, and that a number of individuals within our North American community qualify for these awards. It is therefore up to us to recognize them for their achievement and showcase them in order to inspire the next generation.
With this in mind, please find attached the nomination instructions and application. Kindly forward this to your membership with the following timeline:
August 1st – please send an email to both Adil Mistry (afmistry@gmail.com) and myself (nlangrana@aol.com) with the award categories for which you are planning to submit an application. This is simply an advisory email to us, so that if need be we can solicit additional nominations in order to ensure that we have a recipient for each award category. The actual individual’s name, while welcome, is not important at this stage.
September 1st – Electronic submissions are due. We encourage all applications to be as succinct as possible. While some repetition of qualifications and achievements may be necessary, the FEZANA Awards Committee is looking for quality over quantity. No consideration whatsoever is given for the length of an application so long as it does not exceed a maximum of six 8.5″x11″-size pages, including a cover page.
Nomination Forms should be e-mailed to awards@fezana.org An e-mail confirming receipt will be sent to the sender. If the packet is sent via postal mail, it must be postmarked on or before August 20, 2014.
Nomination Forms sent via postal mail, please send an email to notifying the chair of the postal mailing; followed by mailing the completed forms at the following address:
Noshir Langrana, FEZANA Awards Committee
19 Brookfield Way, West Windsor, NJ 08550-3510
November 1st – All award recipients will be notified.
Finally, please note that while the FEZANA Awards Committee is collecting applications for the NAMC Community Services Award based on the timeline, guidelines, and process mentioned above, the actual award recipient for this award will be determined by a committee selected by the NAMC.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you in advance for your assistance in helping highlight the talent and inspiration of our community.
Sincerely,
Noshir A. Langrana and Adil F. Mistry
Co-Chairs, FEZANA Awards Committee
Download 2014 FEZANA Awards Nomination Package
