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DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE AWARD RULES

CLUB YEARBOOK:

A Club Yearbook is a booklet published annually, composed of a selected number of pages stapled or otherwise bound together within covers.

CATEGORY:

A category is a division of award entries to provide equitable competition among states, according to financial resources, and among clubs, according to total paid club membership. A paid membership is one for which a National Capital Area’s Garden Club has forwarded the required per capita dues to National Garden Clubs Headquarters.

National Capital Area’s yearbook categories are:

(1) with advertisements;
(2) without advertisements.

Club membership categories are:

(a) clubs under 20 members;
(b) clubs 20-29 members;
(c) clubs 30-44 members;
(d) clubs 45-69 members;
(e) clubs 70-99 members;
(f) clubs 100-299 members;
(g) clubs of 300 or more.

ACTIVITY:

An activity is a specific deed, action, function, or sphere of action.

An activity may be a single function whose direct purpose is to further one or more of National Garden Clubs’ objectives, without being involved in a specific project, or major undertaking.

Example:

A field trip to a botanical garden is an activity in pursuit of the objective of advancing the study of horticulture.

Activities are also the means for accomplishing accepted projects, undertaken for the purpose of fulfilling one of or more of National Garden Clubs’ objectives.

Example:

Preparing suet ball bird feeders for the winter season is an activity planned as part of the project to provide backyard bird.


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Yearbook

DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE AWARD RULES