The Mandel School Alumni Association Board is now seeking nominations for its 2025 awards. Award recipients will be announced Summer 2025 and will be honored at the 2025 Alumni Awards Celebration on Friday, October 10, 2025 during Homecoming & Reunion weekend.
Nominations typically require a candidate’s name, full contact information, biographical information, and qualifications for the award. Supporting documents encouraged.
Register a Mandel School alum by April 30, 2025.
The Awards
Distinguished Alumnus
Nominees demonstrate extraordinary professional success and achievement over the span of their entire careers (usually 25 or more years). This award is the highest honor bestowed by the Mandel School Alumni Association Board.
Professional Achievement
Nominees are mid-to-late career and working 15 or more years who have made exemplary professional or career achievements.
Nonprofit Leadership
Nominees have been working as leaders over a span of 15 or more years in the nonprofit profession. Preference given to those that have earned a Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) degree or a Certificate in Nonprofit Management (CNM) from the Mandel School.
Louis Stokes Community Service Leadership
Nominees embody the socially-minded characteristics of the late beloved and honorable Congressman Louis Stokes: community service leadership, social justice advocacy and volunteerism.
Early Career Success
Nominees have usually been working for 15 or fewer years and have demonstrated significant career achievements.
Selection Procedures
Awards may be given posthumously and nominators need not be alumni. Self-nominations are no longer accepted.
Although the committee seeks to honor alumni who have not received a school recognition; they will consider nominations for previously awarded alumni to a different category; therefore, please review the Hall of Achievement listing before submitting a nomination. If the alumnus you would like to nominate appears on the listing, please contact Nada DiFranco to determine if your nominee already received the award you are planning to nominate them for.
Nominators must provide all information listed on the nomination form. The Alumni Awards Committee will review each nomination and recommend award candidates to the Alumni Board and the dean of the Mandel School. The committee won’t be conducting further research on nominees; therefore, please include all pertinent information on the nomination form or on an attachment.
Nominations must be received/postmarked by April 30.
Conferring of Awards
Alumni awards are presented during Homecoming & Reunion during the Mandel School Alumni Celebration on Friday, October 10.