HYP Leadership Awards
We invite HYP members to nominate young professionals (under 40) that are making an impact on our lakeshore community. If you know someone in the working world who has shown exemplary leadership, a dedication to the Holland/Zeeland area, or a drive for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, nominate them here.
Nominee Requirements:
Holland/Zeeland Young Professionals believes everyone doing good work should get the recognition and kudos they deserve. However, for this particular set of awards, we would like to ask that nominees…
should live and/or work in the Holland, Zeeland and surrounding areas.
should be 40 years old or younger.
should not nominate themselves.
should embody the core values of HYP (read them here).
Nominees are not required to be active members of HYP or to have previously engaged with HYP in any way. If they’re doing good work in the community, we want to honor them!
Awards will be determined by the responses submitted by nominees and nominators, so please be as complete with your answers as possible.
Award Categories:
Community Matters: A leader who make an impact outside their professional role by volunteering, coaching, non-profit board activity and other civic engagement.
Equity Matters: A leader who advances equity, inclusion, and justice and has created an impact toward, but not limited to, ethnic and cultural diversity, gender equity, socioeconomic equity, and underprivileged persons' rights.
Business Leadership Matters: A leader who supports community causes beyond their ‘regular jobs’ in the private sector, specifically someone who promotes the Holland/Zeeland area as a great place to live, work, learn and play. This individual is dedicated to volunteerism, coaching, nonprofit board leadership, and/or civic engagement and is employed in the private sector.
Non-Profit Leadership Matters: A leader who supports community causes beyond their ‘regular jobs’ in the nonprofit space, specifically someone who promotes the Holland/Zeeland area as a great place to live, work, learn and play. This individual is dedicated to volunteerism, coaching, nonprofit board leadership, and/or civic engagement and is employed in the nonprofit sector.
Development Matters: (Age 26 and under) An intern or entry level person who has shown great potential for future leadership in our community. *Limited to nominees aged 26 years old or younger at the time of the leadership awards gala