CHRA Leadership Award

This award recognizes individuals who have significantly influenced or championed one or more of CHRA's four pillars with systemic or national results. CHRA's four strategic pillars include: Keeping homes affordable, ending homelessness, renewing communities, and sustaining an affordable housing profession.

Focus: This is to recognize the work of an individual for their work on a particular project/program/initiative of influence within this person’s career.

Eligibility Criteria: The nominee;

• Is an individual
• Has affected significant change on a foundational level through policy change and/or advocacy efforts,
• Has initiated programs, designs, or methods that have seen wide-spread replication across Canada, beyond the local community
• Is an ambassador or champion for the sector through media or public outreach, and
• May or may not be a member of CHRA

Award Guidelines

The nomination and presentation of CHRA awards will be guided by the following terms:

1. Nominations must come from CHRA members in good standing, either individuals or organizations.
2. For four of the CHRA awards - the Community Builder, the Sustainability Award, the CHRA-Rooftops International Service Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award - the nominee must be a CHRA member in good standing.
3. CHRA is not obliged to present each award annually if insufficient nominations are received or those received do not adequately meet the award criteria. Upon internal review, nominees may be transferred into a different, more appropriate award category.
4. A nomination consists of a completed nomination form, a nomination letter of approximately 500-750 words and a minimum of one letter of support.
5. The Awards Committee may extend this deadline by one or two weeks to promote further submissions. CHRA members currently sitting as an elected officer of the Board of Directors or currently participating in the Awards Committee are not eligible for receipt of a CHRA award although they may act as nominator or supporter. Board members and Awards Committee members should abstain from voting on any awards where they were the nominator, wrote a letter of support or have a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest would occur if the Board member works at the same organization as a nominee, works with a nominee, or could occur for any other reason determined by the Board member.
6. A non-selected nomination may be re-submitted in a subsequent year by the nominator, revising the submission as needed.
7. The CHRA Awards Committee selects and recommends award recipients to the CHRA Board of Directors for final decision. The Awards Committee selects the CHRA award winners through a consensus process, aided by an evaluation matrix. The CHRA-Rooftops International Service Award is an exception, administered by Rooftops Canada/Abri International.
8. Award recipients will be presented with their memento by the CHRA President or designate during the awards luncheon at CHRA's National Congress on Housing and Homelessness. The ticket for the award winner and guest(s) attendance at the awards luncheon is complimentary.
9. If an award recipient is unable to attend the awards luncheon at CHRA's National Congress on Housing and Homelessness National Congress, an alternate presentation opportunity will be considered. Otherwise their award will be mailed to them.