Community Builder Awards

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THE 2023 COMMUNITY BUILDER AWARDS

Location:
The Community Council offices at 80-Twenty Studios located at 2528 Highway K, Suite 204 in O'Fallon, MO 63368.

Heavy appetizers, beer, wine and soda will be served.

Each year, we recognize people in the community who embrace and put into action the collaborative work that is key to successfully tackling complex social problems.

At the Community Builder Awards event, we celebrate individuals, coalitions, and organizations that exhibit the collaborative spirit that makes our nonprofit network so effective. This year, help us recognize our 2023 award recipients in these areas:

Community Collaboration Award - Recognizes social service organizations that: focus on the community (not a single organization); promotes collaboration, connections and partnerships by bringing others together in cooperative endeavors; displays sustained commitment to community and provides solutions to improving the lives of fragile people in that community.

Community Champion Award - Presented to an individual who has contributed to community well-being through service and leadership by: being a positive influence in the community; providing community leadership beyond the organization where they work; becoming a familiar voice while bringing people together framed through diversity, equity and inclusion.

Community Spirit Award - Recognizes organizations/businesses that are committed to the community and give back in unique and impactful ways by: focusing on the community (not a single organization); finding a way within their organization to give back to the community or reaching out to the community through influential service; bringing people together in cooperative endeavors to serve vulnerable people in the community.

Frank Martinez Legacy Award - Presented to a volunteer that has made a positive impact and contributed to the well-being of our community through their ongoing service to community organizations and initiatives. Special consideration will be given to individuals who share in Frank Martinez's love of service in the following areas: military, the church, nonprofits and advocacy for children.

Past Community Builder Award Recipients

Past Recipients: 2022 Peg Capo (Community Collaboration), Cheri Thurman (Community Champion), Kyle & Kelly Dent, Shamrocks (Community Spirit); 2019 Sally Faith (Social Service Collaboration), Michelle Woods (Visionary), The Brass Rail (Give Back); 2018 BCI, Cottleville Firefighters Outreach, Delta Center for Independent Living; 2017 LINC St. Charles County, Lincoln County R-III School District Buddy Bags, Mercy; 2016 Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles County, ITN St. Charles, Neighbor Helping Neighbor Service Coalition, Walking for Wellness: Stop Heroin; 2015 St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office & The Child Center, Jobs for Life by OASIS Food Pantry & Thrift Store, Heat Up St. Louis, Shower of Love by Community and Children's Resource Board; 2014 Rotary Clubs of St. Charles County, Sts. Joachim & Ann Care Service, Francis Howell School District, Lindenwood University Nonprofit Administration Program, No Hunger Holiday; 2013 Restore St. Charles, Showers of Blessings at First United Methodist Church St. Charles, Roy Pierce of St. Charles County Housing Corporation, Diann Swain of Metro St. Louis Cinderella Project, St. Charles City-County Library District; 2012 Enterprise Holdings, Todd Barnes of JCPenney, Brad Smith of the St. Charles City-County Library District, Community Living Inc., Harvester Christian Church; 2011 Volunteers in Medicine - Lake St. Louis, Coalition of Service Providers, St. Charles Convention Center's Helping Hands for the Holidays; 2010 Anita Telkamp of the City of St. Charles, Kathy Halstead of the City of O'Fallon, Patricia Stevens College Visual Design Class, SENTralized Communities of Faith; 2009 Operation Food Search Wentzville, Mary Martha Thrift Shop, Long Term Flood Recovery Committee, Operation LifeRaft; 2008 Crider Health Center, Cheryl Glass, St. Louis HOME Consortium, MO Probation & Parole Drug Court Team; 2007 Volunteers in Medicine - St. Charles, Mayor Paul Lambi, RSVP Speedy Bunch Volunteers.

Past Frank Martinez Legacy Award Recipients

Past Recipients: 2022 Bill Weisrock; 2019 Chris Hoffman; 2018 Dianne Garrision; 2017 Tom & Vicki Houska of FAST (Foster Adoption Support Team); 2016 Steve Collier, Restore St. Charles; 2015 Miriam Mahan, Sts. Joachim & Ann Care Service; 2014 Shirley Russell, Volunteers in Medicine - St. Charles; 2013 Maurice Helmich, FISH of St. Charles County; 2012 Dan Rubery, Society of St. Vincent DePaul