Excellence Through Collaboration Award

To be eligible for consideration, nominated projects must involve collaboration and shared responsibility between state government and one or more corporate/non-corporate partner(s) in good standing with NASCA.

This award recognizes initiatives that deliver a valuable public benefit, services, or resource that positively impact the state's citizens. In-kind donations and contracts for services do not necessarily constitute a public-private partnership for purposes of this award. Nominated partnerships should be collaborative in nature as described above.

• State must be a current member of NASCA.

• Submissions must be made by State Chief Administrators (or equivalent) or with the State Chief Administrator's approval; corporate member may submit with the CAOs approval.

• Nominated programs/projects should have implemented within the last 36 months.

• Projects may be led by other agencies/departments, but staff from the administration department must have played a significant role in developing the program or project. (e.g., HHS stockpile redesign, Department of Corrections recruitment and retention initiative)

• Only one nomination per state is allowed in each category, not multiple categories. Contact headquarters@nasca.org if you need help on the category selection.

• Only completed submissions will be accepted.

• Submissions will only be accepted online.

• Prior year submissions that were not awarded and have been updated can also be submitted.

Applicants will use a NASCA template that includes an executive summary and narrative of each of the following judging criteria. Visual aids are encouraged and may be included as supplemental material, but scores will be based on the written submission:

• Innovation: Project Goals/Objectives (25%): What problem does this address? Why does the problem matter? What unique ways, approach, scale, or magnitude of effort did the state undertake? What makes this universal and transferable? Goals should be broad and overarching objectives should be expressed in specific and measurable terms.

• Strategy/Tactics (25%): Strategy/Tactics should outline the plan, strategy, tactics, resources, team, roadmap used to reach the goals and objectives set.

• Impact: Success Metrics/Outcomes and Efficiencies Achieved (50%): For the measurement of your goals and objectives applications should indicate the metrics used to measure success. Examples include:

  • Number of hours saved

  • Employee engagement survey change

  • Comments and data from a customer satisfaction survey

  • Visits to the online data visualization

  • Dollars spent on MBE vendors

• All nominations must be submitted via the Typeform link below under “How to Nominate.”

• All nomination packets must be formatted in Arial font, size 11, with single spacing and 1-inch margins on all sides.

• Nomination packets must not exceed four pages, excluding this title page.

• Please remove all italicized instructional text in the template below before submitting.

• In addition to this submission packet, the Typeform survey will prompt you to upload:

  • Recent headshots and short biographies (maximum 100 words each) of the key individuals involved in the project.

  • Optional supporting materials such as visuals, images, examples, etc.

Step 1: Download and complete the Nomination Template.

Step 2: Submit your completed Nomination Form using the link below along with headshots and 100-word biographies of the key individuals involved in the project.

Please note: Only complete submissions made through the Typeform link below will be considered.