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AWARDS YEAR: January 1 through December 31.



A.  Winners are published in an Awards Booklet distributed at the following March National Capital Area Garden

Club’s Awards meeting and are listed in the summer issue of ‘The Capital Gardener’.


B. FORMS AND DEADLINES:

All awards require duplicate application forms. Forms and supporting evidence are due on or before

NOVEMBER 4, 2011, except for the single application for Award #18 (Citation for Outstanding Garden Club Achievement) due on or before January 23, 2012.


Application forms may be obtained from National Capital Area’s awards chairman or from the National Capital Area District’s awards chairmen.  To access online National Capital Area’s Application Forms [Click HERE]


C. ELIGIBILITY:


Only clubs that are members of the National Capital Area Garden Clubs are eligible to apply for a State Award except when the recipients are proposed by the Awards Committee or by the Board of Trustees. Junior Garden Clubs, Intermediate and High School Gardeners must be sponsored by a member club. Clubs and individual members may apply for one or more awards. Only members of the National Capital Area are eligible to apply for a Central Atlantic Region Award and/or a National Garden Clubs Award. This application must be submitted through the National Capital Area’s Awards Chairman.


D. PROCEDURE FOR FILING:


Applications for National Capital Area Awards that are to be submitted to National Capital Area’s District

Awards Chairmen first are as follows:
       #18 - Citation for Outstanding Garden Club Achievement.
       #20 - Yearbook Certificate of Merit.
       #21 - Publication Certificate of Merit

District I -   Sally O'Connell, 10223 Big Rock Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901, 301-593-8970,

soconnell44@hotmail.com    

District II -   Lin Stauffer, 4411 Boxwood Drive, Dumfries, VA 22025, 703-670-2376, linstauffer@verizon.net

 District III -  Anne Stuntz, 2596 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna, VA 22181, 703-938-1894, stuntzag@aol.com

District IV - Anna Mae Kobbe. 4312 Woodberry St., University Park, MD 20782, 301-277-0414,

amkobbe@aolc.com

Applications for all other State Awards are to be sent to the National Capital Area Awards Chairman,

Jo Sellers; 5831 Fitzhugh Street; Burke, VA 22015 703 451-7037 or awards@ncagardenclubs.org.


E. Please click HERE for information on preparing a Book of Evidence.

F. AWARD APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR DOCUMENTATION:

Requirements for Award Application -

A Flower Show Book of Evidence is required for these last two awards. You now

have a choice for submission. Your Book of Evidence may be prepared either on CD/DVD using WORD or Power Point if you don't have the capability of saving in PDF. Attach a label to the CD/DVD then proceed to assemble the pages in the order dictated by the Handbook for Flower Shows. Do not put the schedule on the CD/DVD. Submit with 1 paper copy of the Award Application and 1 copy of the schedule with the CD/DVD in an envelope and send it to the State Awards Chairman. Books of Evidence will still be accepted if a club chooses not to do a CD/DVD.


G. FLOWER SHOW AWARDS:

1.   Non-Standard Flower Shows are eligible for State Awards #9 and #33. A State Awards application and

Book of Evidence showing top award winners is required for Award #33. Small Standard Flower Shows are eligible for State Awards #9 and #31. Standard Flower Shows are eligible for State Awards #6, #7, #9, #10, #11, #12, #30 and #33. Evaluated Standard Flower Shows scoring 95 or above are eligible for NCAGC Award #32 and a NGC (National) Award. A Flower Show Book of Evidence created using NGC Flower Show guidelines is required for Awards #31 and #32.


2.   Applications for evaluated Standard Flower Shows must be made to the National Capital Area’s Council of

Accredited Flower Show Judges' Chairman 60 days prior to the date of the show. For complete information on procedures to be followed to have your district or club Standard Flower Show evaluated, refer to

THE HANDBOOK OF FLOWER SHOWS, 2007 Revised.


NOTE:

Guidelines for a Standard Flower Show Book of Evidence can be found on pp. 61-63, HANDBOOK OF FLOWER SHOWS and on the National Garden Club’s web site, under Awards section.  

To access the National Garden Clubs Website:  [Click HERE]


H. NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA’S AWARDS COMMITTEE:

Consists National Capital Area’s Awards Chairman, President, First Vice-President, Awards Chairmen from  the National Capital Area’s four Districts, Civic Development Chairman, Council of Accredited Flower Show Judges Chairman, & the National Capital Area’s – Environmental Consultants Council President, Gardening Consultants Council President, Landscape Design Council President and Garden Therapy Chairman.


AWARD CERTIFICATES


During each calendar year, January 1 - December 31, National Capital Area Garden Club collects donations for the following organizations:  


Community Gardening (previously World Gardening),

Fern Valley,

Friendship Garden,

Chesapeake Bay Foundation,

Nature Conservancy,

Scholarship

Arbor House


For a minimum  donation of $50 or a $1.00 per member toward the President’s Project, a garden club will be listed in the annual National Capital Area Garden Club Awards Book and receive an Award Certificate.





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