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Awards Preparation Information
Laurels are a non-competitive awards that can be given to any qualified District or individual club member. These awards encourage and recognize outstanding accomplishments that are "above and beyond" the regular duties of office or committee. Each District may introduce its own special "Laurels" as a way to say "Thank you". Each District will set its own deadline date and indicate which District Chairman should receive application forms. Laurels will be presented to the selected recipients and clubs at the Annual District Meetings held in the fall of each year. There are no limitations on the number of Laurels that may be given to a club by the District. Be selective in your choice of nominees. Consider persons who have never been recognized and honored for superior service to club, District or Federation. The District Awards Committee will review applications and determine whether the activity or project merits a Laurel. Do not make an application for an individual who has received a Laurel for the same project before a three (3) year period lapses. If, however, a nominee qualifies for a Laurel for an entirely different project or activity than she had previously qualified, she may be nominated again for one of the above categories. Consider persons who have never been recognized and honored for superior service to their Club, District, or Federation. The Awards Committee reads and critiques all applications, and determines whether the activity or project merits a Laurel.
Use a separate sheet of paper for each application and include the following:
Thank you for taking the time to recognize those SPECIAL members. Members of clubs may be recognized for outstanding activity in the following:
District Laurels Certificate: Please email the GCFP Hq Secretary for a certificate.
Awards Manual And Application Forms Each Federated club in the state receives an Awards Manual listing the National, CAR and GCFP Awards for which clubs may apply. All applications for awards must be prepared according to the requirements outlined in the GREEN Awards Manual. Before preparing your Books of Evidence (BOE), read the entire section titled "The Award Process" beginning on page 6 of the Green Manual. Follow the directions outlined in preparing and mailing your BOE, Publication, Video, etc. Some awards have special requirements which are outlined in the description of that award. Note that all BOE do not go to the State Awards Chairman. Also note that some awards have special deadline dates which are outlined in the description of the website. At the time our manual went to press, CAR had not completed their award changes. For the complete listing of CAR Awards, please check their website: www.centralatlanticregion.org.
Click here to download a Flower Show Achievement Award Checklist & Book of Evidence Guide
Contact the awards chairman with questions concerning information in the GCFP Awards Manual.
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Check your directory issue of THE KEYSTONE GARDENER for mail, phone and address information.
NGC List of Awards for 2009-2011
The Club Yearbook Award is one of the easiest for which you may apply! All the information needed to apply for the Club Yearbook Award is in the green Awards Manual. You only need to send two (2) completed National Award applications (dated 2009-11) and one GCFP award application form along with your club yearbook. Both forms are available on this page above. The DEADLINE is December 1, 2009 for the GCFP awards which may go on to NGC for national recognition. Mail your Club Yearbooks and completed application forms to me BEFORE December 1, 2009 at the following address:
Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Email at Barbara Lotito or 724-327-0501 Looking forward to receiving all your interesting yearbooks and perhaps your club will win an award!!!
OPERATION WILDFLOWER AWARDS are listed with the other National Awards and described in the fall edition of The National Gardener Magazine in the odd years. Awards of up to $1,000.00 may be given in several categories for each award.
Books of Evidence, sent to the NGC Awards Chairman, must include supporting information as applicable: before and after photos, educational value, unique aspects of the project, financial statement, publicity, etc., and must follow the same requirements necessary for NGC Awards. No project may receive the same award for two consecutive years. In 2006 two single member garden clubs and a state garden club received $1,000.00 awards for their projects, others received $500.00. Applying for these awards is definitely worthwhile! If you are aware of a project that fits Operation Wildflower award or grant requirements, suggest that an application be submitted. Winning $1,000.00 or even $100.00 could make a huge difference to a project. Please contact me if you need more information. Sue Redden NGC Wildflower Chairman, 16 Appian Way, Barrington, RI 02806-1948 Phone: 401-245-8215.
reprint from "Keep In Touch" The planning for a flower show will begin long before the show actually takes place. This article is not going to delve into the process of planning flower show specifically. It is going to deal with three problem areas that arise when judging the Books of Evidence to determine if the show is worthy of a prestigious NGC Award. Those three areas where most clubs fail besides in the wording of the schedule are the actual innovative staging in all divisions of the show and in carrying out the Theme Staging throughout the show. Then if they have accomplished this task the photographer fails to document it. Those photos are as essential to the success of the show as any other part. Most clubs do reasonably well in using innovative staging in the design division of their show by using pedestals, frames, floor designs, etc. But when you get to the horticulture division of the show you line all of the specimens up in rows, nothing imaginative to the staging of this section. Wake up friends. This division needs diversity also. Use clay pots turned upside down to elevate specimens, raise specimens up on cylinders with tile square tops or some other means of getting some of those specimens up so they can be seen better. Then comes the Special Exhibits Division, this division needs diversity also. Make sure that your exhibitors do something beside use a table with a background. This division needs elevation and imagination also. The key after having completed this task is to photograph it. Documentation for the Book of Evidence is vital to winning an award. Theme staging is another part of the show that suffers. Just because you use signage at the entrance to the show and make the entrance look really neat doesn’t end your job. There needs to be imagination in signage marking the divisions, sections, and classes of the entire show. Be imaginative and use a little of the entrance imagination throughout the show, then photograph those areas to document how the theme of the show was carried throughout the show. If you start with one color, then continue that color throughout the show. Continuity is the name of this game. Photographing of a show should be done by more than one person, if possible. Accidents happen to the best of us. The computer crashes before you’ve gotten it backed up. Pictures are lost due to accidentally hitting that delete button or any of several ways that they can be lost, so a second or third person is essential to getting great pictures. Plus not all pictures turn out as well as one might wish even with digital cameras. Before the photographer begins he/she should make a detailed check list of all areas that have to be photographed for the Book of Evidence. Try photographing immediately following judging and prior to the opening of the show. This will help guarantee having photos that omit people. (Omit people as much as possible.) The list of photographs needed includes all Top Exhibitor Award Winners. (In horticulture they may be grouped on an awards table for ease of photographing and public viewing.) You need photos to show overall shots of the design division, horticulture division and special exhibits division. Have photos showing the innovative staging in design, horticulture, & special exhibits. Don’t forget to document that theme staging; this is vital also.
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