Recreation Awards

Recreation Section Professional of the Year: The WPRA Recreation Section Professional of the Year award is presented to a WPRA Member who is currently working as either a full-time or permanent part-time professional in recreation, with more than seven years of service. 

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Silver Star Awards

• Adult/Older Adult Programming: Programs, activities or services offered to adult or older adult populations. 
  
• Creative Service Delivery/Marketing: Activities or services that are non-traditional in nature and enhance the agency’s missions. Included but not limited, to Recreation programming, strategic plans, fundraising, multi-party partnerships/sponsorships, and/or creative marketing initiatives. 
• Special Events: Special, civic or community events that occur one time and require special programming needs. 
• Youth Programming: Enrichment programs, sport or fitness programs, activities or services offered to youth populations on an on-going basis.

Entries for Silver Star Awards will be judged by the following criteria.
Please keep responses to 200 words or less for each question. 

• Goals: What are the goals of this program?  (Responses may include, but are not limited to target audience, long term goal of this program/event, how did your program align with your community's/department's mission, etc)
• Objectives: What steps did you take to meet your goals?
• Outcomes: - Describe the program’s outcomes. (Responses may include, but are not limited to goal and actual registration numbers, max participation allowed and why, minimum participation needed to run the program/event, % of community population served, demographic of community served, etc)
• Operational Efficiency: How did this program demonstrate fiscal responsibility? (For example: partnerships, sponsorships, volunteers, staffing, etc) Highlight any specific operational efficiencies, or inefficiencies,  that affected your budget or impacted this program. For any inefficiencies, how did your team work to overcome them?
• Creativity and Innovation: Detail the unique and innovative features of the program or event. (Responses may include, but are not limited to, implementation of new process/technique to programming, new technology, etc)
• Marketing: Describe how the program was marketed. Please attach any marketing materials.