Innovation Of the Year

Innovation of the Year

This award honours innovative solutions that address pressing challenges while improving the quality of life in Canadian communities. Innovation of The Year award celebrates groundbreaking achievements in municipal innovation that set new standards for municipal excellence.

Who Is This Award For?

The Innovation of the Year award recognizes transformational approaches to delivering municipal services. Four criteria will be used to evaluate scholarship applications.

The four criteria used for evaluation:

• Culture – the development of organizational thought transformation and approaches to service delivery and relationship cultivation;
• Ecosystems – collaborative efforts of cross-sector engagement that establish unique partnerships;
• Strategy – the design and creation of resourceful self-sustaining systems that drive high performance; and
• Operations – innovations in the delivery of service to streamline and create organizational efficiencies.

What Are The Requirements?

Your application should detail the innovative approach and how it delivers quality of life improvement to the community. Specifically, your application must contain a brief overview of:

• The local innovation,
• The issue it resolved, and
• The outcomes as a result of the transformative action/policy.

Power Point or similar presentation methods are encouraged. Word documents or pdf are also acceptable formats. Please note that written submission should be no longer than 500 words. Innovation being submitted should have commenced after Jan. 1, 2023.

Nominations must be received no later than 11 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 4.