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Membership Awards

STANDING OVATION AWARD 

This award is for individual contributors to the overall growth of NAACP Membership and awardee(s) must be submitted by the leadership of the Unit to Membership Services.  A winner from each Region will be chosen. In the case of multiple entries, National Staff will choose a winner based on the following criteria: 

  • Positive attitude about the NAACP  

  • Submitted an "I AM A NAACP Member" Story here

  • Prepared, organized, and works within timelines as demonstrated by leading a membership drive in the last year

  • Succeeded in selling NAACP memberships

  • Has high-level teamwork, integrity, and honesty. 

Use this link to nominate your Standing Ovation Award Nominee.

NAACP CLUB 100 

This award is open to all Units, specifically for the membership chair and team that signed up at least 100 new members between May 1, 2022, and May 30, 2023. Members must be reported in the membership portal on or before May 31, 2023. Awards will be available for pickup immediately following the National Membership Luncheon on July 30, 2023. 

PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE 

This award is open to all Units, specifically for the membership chair and team that sold at least $5000 in memberships between May 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023. Awards will be available for pickup immediately following the National Membership Luncheon on July 30, 2023. 

ELLA JO BAKER AWARD 

Ella Baker began her involvement with the NAACP in 1940. She worked as a field secretary and then served as director of branches from 1943 until 1946. Inspired by the historic bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, Baker co-founded the organization In Friendship to raise money to fight against Jim Crow Laws in the deep South. In 1957, Baker moved to Atlanta to help organize Martin Luther King's new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She also ran a voter registration campaign called the Crusade for Citizenship. 

The Ella Jo Baker Award will be awarded to the top three Units in each category with the highest membership percent increase between May I, 2022, and May 31, 2023:

  • Units that started with 100 or less. 

  • Units that started with 101-250 members. 

  • Units that started with 251-500 or more. 

  • Units that started with 501 or more. 

Four awards will be presented during the National Membership Luncheon on July 30, 2023. 

LUCILLE BLACK AWARDS 

Lucille Black joined the NAACP in 1927 and became the national membership secretary in 1945. Her duties expanded to include planning, coordinating, and supervising membership drives, acknowledging and recording memberships, and attending branch meetings throughout the country before retiring. 

This award is for the membership chair and Unit with the highest total of new memberships added between May 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023.  Two separate awards for Adult and Youth and College will be presented during the National Membership Luncheon on July 30, 2023. 

THE IMPACT AWARD 

This award is given to the top Unit and team that has earned or qualified for all the awards and received the highest in each category. 

To qualify, your Unit must have: 

  • 100 or more active members between May 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023.  

  • Raised $5,000 or more in membership revenues (includes corporate) between May 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023, and

  • Increased membership by at least 25%. The winners will have increased membership by the highest percentage growth in the past year. 

CENTENNIAL UNIT AWARDS 

This award is a recognition of those Units that will celebrate 100 years as a chartered Unit in the current year.  For this year, we will recognize units that have reached this centennial milestone within the last five years.  

Deadline:  

To qualify for any award, you need to be nationally compliant. All memberships should be entered into the membership portal by Friday, June 9, 2023, at 5 PM EST.  Paper memberships must be postmarked by National by May 31, 2023. NO EXCEPTIONS.