Idaho REALTORS® Good Neighbor Award

The Idaho REALTORS® Good Neighbor Award is a new award that recognizes REALTORS® who have made an extraordinary impact on their community through volunteer work. To be eligible, nominees must be members of Idaho REALTORS® in good standing and should have made a significant impact as a volunteer for a nonprofit organization. The award focuses on the level of personal contribution, the impact of personal contribution, the broadness of impact, and the project’s suitability as a role model for other REALTORS®. Nominees can document the results of their individual involvement through published reports and/or testimonials from the organization they served or the people they helped. The award is intended to recognize individual contributions, not the association- or company-wide efforts. Nominations must be accompanied by a completed entry form and received by 5 PM MST on the deadline date to be considered for that calendar year’s awards.

• The 2023 Deadline is Saturday, August 5th.
• Please Submit Finalized Scoring and Entry Forms to .

Eligibility Criteria

1. Nominees must be members of Idaho REALTORS® in good standing.
2. Nominees should have made a significant impact as a volunteer for a nonprofit organization. Eligible activities are not limited to real estate or housing issues and may include volunteer work done overseas.
3. Nominees should have made a significant contribution of personal time, but contributions of money, materials, and other resources will also be considered by the judges.
4. Nominees will be judged on level of personal contribution, impact of personal contribution, broadness of impact, and the project’s suitability as a role model for other REALTORS®.
5. The award is intended to recognize individual contributions, not association- or company-wide efforts. If an individual within your company can be singled out as instrumental to the success of a group effort, he or she is eligible. If the achievements of two people (such as a married couple or co-founders of an organization) cannot be separated, they can enter as a pair and their entry will be considered as one.
6. Some portion of the nominee’s community work must have taken place during the timeframe specified on the application form, but judges will also consider ongoing efforts outside that timeframe that demonstrate a depth of commitment.
7. Nominees should be able to document the results of their individual involvement though published reports and/or testimonials from the organization they served or the people they helped.
8. Nominations must be accompanied by a completed entry form to be considered (REALTORS® may nominate themselves or may be nominated by another member, a local association executive, or the community organization they serve).

Good Neighbor Awards Program Rules

1. Nominees must be members in good standing of Idaho REALTORS®.
2. To enter or nominate a REALTOR®, complete the official entry form and submit it with attachments.
3. Entries must be received by 5 PM MST on the deadline date to be considered for that calendar year’s awards. All entries shall become the property of Idaho REALTORS® and will not be returned. Visit our nomination page at Idahorealtors.com to learn more. Finalists will be nominated by the Idaho REALTORS® Executive Committee.
4. The finalists’ nomination materials will be sent to a panel of judges appointed by the IR Executive Committee for scoring. Judges will award points to finalists’ entries based on level of personal contribution, impact of personal contribution, and the project’s suitability as a role model for other REALTORS®. The judges’ decisions, including selecting a winner from the nominees, are final.
5. Nominees’ entry information will not be given to anyone outside of the Idaho REALTORS® Executive Committee, IR staff and the judges; judges will receive only the information necessary to evaluate the candidate.
6. A monetary prize in the amount of $1,500 may be awarded by Idaho REALTORS® to the nonprofit named by the candidate member selected by the judges as the winner of award.
7. The staff of IR and the program sponsors will not take phone calls or release any information regarding the judges’ identities, judging process, or status of the entries.
8. Finalists must sign an affidavit of eligibility and be willing to be interviewed, photographed, filmed, and featured by IR.
9. Good Neighbor judges and their families, IR staff, program sponsors, and their families are ineligible to participate.
10. Idaho REALTORS®, program sponsors and judges are not responsible for late, stolen, or misdirected entries. The winner will be notified by telephone and email.