Fernando Award Foundation's "Call For Nominations"

Fernando Award Foundation Requests Names of Nominees For The 2013 Fernando Award

The 2013 Recipient Will Be Honored For Volunteerism & Civic Accomplishment

(Los Angeles) - -May 1, 2013 - The Fernando Award Foundation Selection Committee is asking community and civic organizations to select their nominees for the San Fernando Valley’s most prestigious award for volunteerism and civic accomplishment. The call for nominations will end on June 28, 2013.

There are two ways to get the nomination process started. Organizations and businesses, including Chambers of Commerce, non-profits, Valley Industry & Commerce Association (VICA) members, and past recipients, may contact Dennis Watsabaugh at (818) 231-2288 for a Nomination Packet. Organizations can also visit the Fernando Award Foundation website and download a Nomination Packet: www.fernandoawards.org . Members of the Fernando Award Board of Directors are available to explain the process and help complete the nomination package.

The Fernando Award Foundation, presenting the highest award for volunteerism in the San Fernando Valley, will hold its annual recognition of the 2013 nominees with a dinner at the Warner Center Marriott on Friday, September 20, 2013.

Initiated in 1959, by a group of San Fernando Valley business and community leaders interested in encouraging community involvement, the award is open to all Valley residents. “The mission and purpose of the Fernando Award is to promote and recognize lifetime volunteerism in the San Fernando Valley. We hope organizations will look at their own members, and also at other organizations with whom they are familiar. The silent heroes that the Fernando Award Foundation is seeking com from all walks of life. They give to the community without any thought of recognition and this is our opportunity to thank them,” said Dennis Watsabaugh, President, Board of Directors.

The Fernando Award is in the form of a miniature replica of the Fernando monument located in the Van Nuys Civic Center. Names of the award recipients are etched in the base of the monument and on a marble obelisk in Warner Center Park, located in Woodland Hills.

For more information and Nomination Packets, please phone Dennis Watsabaugh at: (818) 231-2288 or Daniale Perry at: (818) 980-7867.

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