The Award Categories

This most-coveted award sets the bar for aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs. The award encourages nominees, and all entrepreneurs, to pursue their goals and attain the level of financial success and prominence that past recipients have achieved.

This award recognizes businesses that have significantly grown in recognition since their startup days. From impact on the community to financial prosperity, this company will have overcome it all to reach accomplishments.

The winner of this award may not look like your typical entrepreneur, yet they’ve managed to operate their business with the spirit and risk-taking tenacity that is so often admired in traditional entrepreneurship. The winner, or winners, are individuals who think outside the box.

The private judging panel of local entrepreneurs will analyze the philanthropic activity of nominees, considering both their philanthropic activity and ways in which the company fulfills social duties. It is important that our awarded businesses make the world around us a better place.

This award will be given to a nonprofit that serves the area in a large capacity and produced outstanding accomplishments in fundraising, awareness and education efforts to the public.