Hear From the Members Who Never Nominate Anyone

A 30-minute session for associations on making award nominations easy to start, clear to aim and simple to finish, so the right members get recognized.

At many associations, a short list of people sends in most award nominations: board members, committee chairs, past winners and staff. They know the awards exist, what the committee looks for and how the form works.

Everyone else has someone in mind too. They just never hear the call, aren't sure their person qualifies, or open a long form and close it. So the same people nominate, and the same kinds of people win.

This session draws on two of the five dimensions of Review Integrity, a framework for judging whether an application and review process is fair, consistent and defensible.

The first is Intake Proportionality: does what you ask of a nominator match what it takes to recommend someone? A member should be able to say who and why without assembling a full award file.

The second is Rubric Clarity: are your criteria written, weighted and visible before anyone applies? When members can see who you're looking for, they nominate people who fit, and they nominate people they'd otherwise assume didn't qualify.

When neither is in place, deserving members never reach your judges, because judges can only choose from who was nominated. Newer and less connected members read the winners list and decide the program isn't for them. And when the board asks what your awards do for the whole membership, the answer is that they reach the people who were already engaged.

The nomination form, the criteria and the reminders are all set before the call for nominations goes out. Once members are working from them, changes reach only the people who haven't started.

In This 30-Minute Session, You'll Learn Four Ways To:

• Make nominating a two-minute job. A short nominator form asks only who and why, and the nominee is invited to fill in the rest.
• Show members who you're looking for. Publish categories, criteria and their weighting before anyone nominates, with eligibility questions up front so wrong-fit nominations stop at the door.
• Reach past the usual nominators. Put every award in one portal, and send the call and its reminders from your own email domain so they land in members' inboxes.
• Finish what gets started. Give nominators save-and-return, send reminders for unfinished nominations, and see which ones are still incomplete.

Who Should Attend

Association staff who run awards, recognition, fellowship or member scholarship programs, in membership, programs, events, foundation or communications roles, plus the committee chairs who oversee nominations.

About Reviewr

Founded in 2011, Reviewr is SOC 2 Type II certified and has processed more than 1 million applications for thousands of organizations.

Internal Notes

• Registration form checklist (check before Send 1 on Dec 15):
  • New HubSpot form named with the exact webinar title
  • Name + email only (3–5 fields maximum; no phone field, which can cost up to 48% of registrants)
  • One form for this webinar, with no duplicate variants splitting attribution
  • Test a submission end to end and confirm it shows in HubSpot form submissions
  • Page shows Tue Dec 22, 11:30am CT, and every email links here
• Permanence: this page stays live on-demand. No dated stats or holiday references; the Critical Event paragraph has no dates.
• Review Integrity by name: this page uses it. Add it to the running inventory of pages that name the framework.
• The headline differs from the title and leads with the benefit. Dimension names and wording match the emails.
• Claims: same as the email file. Confirm the nominator-to-nominee workflow and reminders for unfinished nominations before publishing; if either isn't confirmed, use the fallback wording in the email Internal Notes here too. Proof points are the four approved ones. Single CTA, no presenter, client or co-host named, no AI, pricing, benchmark numbers or disbursement.

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