I am sitting on the nominations committee for the Burnaby Board of Trade Business Excellence Awards 2007. We are coming up with a list of businesses and non-profit organizations that deserve to be in the running for an award this year, and encourage people to nominate them. I am the president of the board of the Stream of Dreams Murals Society that won the Community Service award in 2004.
The Burnaby Spirit and Community Service awards have been combined into the category of Burnaby Community Spirit. This category is not open to non-profits. To accommodate non-profits and not have them run directly against businesses, there is now a new category of Non-Profit Organization of the Year.
The other categories remain the same and are open to both businesses and non-profits: Business Innovation, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Newsmaker of the Year, Business Person of the Year, Small Business of the Year (fewer than 50 employees and annual revenues of up to $5 million), and Business of the Year.
Please contact the board of trade at the link above if you have any ideas about Burnaby based companies and groups that you feel would be deserving of an award.