Advocacy Awards

Nominations for National PTA’s 2020 Advocacy Awards are now being accepted! National PTA’s annual Advocacy Awards recognize outstanding youth, individual PTA advocates, and local unit and state PTAs that have done great advocacy work. Winners will be announced in January and will receive their awards at the 2020 Legislative Conference in Alexandria, VA. If you know of an outstanding youth or individual PTA advocate, or know of a local unit or state PTA that has done great advocacy work, please nominate them at www.PTA.org/AdvocacyAwards.

As many of you may already know, our four advocacy awards are the Shirley Igo Advocate of the Year Award, the Outstanding Youth Advocate of the Year Award, the Outstanding State PTA Advocacy of the Year Award, and the Outstanding Local PTA Advocacy of the Year Award. The deadline to submit a nomination is Wednesday, December 18 at 11:59 ET. You can find the nomination forms for all four awards as well as a list of the nomination requirements and rubric for each award at www.PTA.org/AdvocacyAwards.

We are counting on you to both nominate strong advocates in your states and promote the awards while nominations are open. Attached you will find a social media toolkit designed to provide sample social media and newsletter messages that can be used to share the Advocacy Awards opportunity with PTA leaders in your states.

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Government Affairs at LegCon@PTA.org.