Award Nominations

The Pesticide Stewardship Alliance believes it is important to showcase outstanding efforts in Pesticide Stewardship and annually recognizes people, teams, organizations, and businesses for excellence.

Awards mission:  To recognize and promote dedicated, innovative and creative pesticide stewardship efforts of individual persons, programs, organizations, government agencies and industry. (See list of past recipients.)

Award Eligibility and Criteria:  Awards are open to TPSA members in good standing, or those having notable stewardship innovations and contributions.  TPSA members are invited to submit nominations for the programs or people fitting the award category criteria.  Members may submit more than one entry and may nominate themselves.  Individuals serving on the awards committee cannot be nominated nor can his/her company/organization/program unless the awards committee representative abstains from the evaluation and discussion.  Members who received awards in a particular category are not eligible for future nominations for that same category award but are open to other categories.

Award Evaluation:  Nominations will be reviewed and judged against the criteria listed for each category.  The awards committee may solicit additional information from the nominees to assist in the award evaluation.  Awards may not be given in a category if nominations are not received by the deadline of December 15, 2024, or do not meet the listed criteria.

Nomination:  The nomination form (below) and any accompanying support letters should showcase stewardship service and/or achievement in one or more of the award categories. Nominations can be submitted for more than one category but use a separate nomination form for each submission.  The criteria listed below are areas nominators should try to consider when preparing the nomination. This will assist the awards selection committee in equitably evaluating the nominees.