Final Days to Nominate Environmental Volunteers for Atlanta's 2017 Cox Conserves Heroes Awards Program
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
Tuesday, August 15th, 2017
Channel 2 WSB-TV, in partnership with The Trust for Public Land, is accepting nominations for Atlanta's 2017 Cox Conserves Heroes program at CoxConservesHeroes.com through 5 p.m. EDT on August 21.
Nominees are individuals who volunteer their time and resources to creating, preserving or enhancing outdoor spaces in their communities.
Eligibility Criteria
Nominee's activity creates, protects and/or beautifies an outdoor community space;
Nominee's activity is done on a volunteer basis and is not part of his or her paid employment;
Nominee's activity inspires others to engage in community conservation.
Local judging panels, comprised of civic and environmental leaders, will select three finalists who then compete to be named Atlanta's 2017 Cox Conserves Hero. The winner, chosen through an online public vote, will receive $10,000 to donate to his or her selected nonprofit beneficiary. The two finalists each will receive $5,000 for their nonprofits of choice.
Previous recipients of Atlanta's Cox Conserves Heroes award are Linda Cotton-Taylor, Tom Branch, Bob Scott, John Gordon, Donna Shearer, Na'Taki Osborne-Jelks, Angel Poventud and Don Wells.
Cox Conserves Heroes was created through a partnership between The Trust for Public Land and Cox Enterprises, the parent company of Cox Communications, to honor local conservation volunteers.