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	2010 Agnes L. Colgan Community Service Award Nomination Form
	Community Service Award Recipients

Agnes L. Colgan
Community Service Award

Formerly called the Shelley Krasnow Award, the name was changed to the Agnes L. Colgan Award at the Excellence in Business Awards Luncheon held in May, 2009. The name honors Agnes L. Colgan, devoted mother and philanthropist and the late wife of Senator Charles J. Colgan.

The Agnes L. Colgan Community Service Award is presented to one or more deserving nonprofit organizations for outstanding community service. A one thousand dollar check is presented to each recipient along with a plaque commemorating their service at the Chamber’s annual Community Showcase Luncheon held each February. The recipients’ names are inscribed on the Agnes L. ColganCommunity Service Award plaque that is permanently displayed at the Chamber office.

Members of the Colgan family, including Senator Charles J. Colgan (center) and Past Chamber Chair Mary Finnigan, Colgan Air (center right) celebrate with Chamber Chair Steve Nelson, Junction Travel, Inc. and Lucy Beauchamp, Potomac Science Center (second and third from left) the announcement that the Chamber’s Community Service Award will henceforth be named in honor of Agnes L. Colgan.   (Photo: Photography by Exposure)

2009 Shelley Krasnow Community Service Award

The Prince William County-Greater Manassas Chamber of Commerce presented the final two Shelley Krasnow Community Service Awards to GFWC Dominion Woman’s Club in the category of Arts and Education and Project Mend-A-House, Inc. in the category of Health and Human Services. Both organizations received a plaque and a check for $1,000. Their names will also be engraved on a permanent plaque which hangs in the Chamber main office.

The awards were presented by Todd W. Hewitt, Executive Vice President of Cardinal Bank, this year’s Shelley Krasnow Community Service Awards sponsor at the annual Community Showcase Luncheon held on Tuesday, February 24th at the Best Western Battlefield Inn in Manassas. The luncheon was sponsored by The Cancer Center at Lake Manassas and Touching Hearts at Home on behalf of Capital Hospice.

For the past two decades, the Greater Chamber has been presenting the awards annually to local nonprofit organizations in recognition for the service they provide to our community. Next year, the name will be retired in order to honor a more recent local philanthropist.

The money for the award was raised by the Chamber’s Community Relations Committee at the Cuisine de Commerce Luncheon held every year in November.

The Community Showcase is one of the many benefits of membership in the Prince William County–Greater Manassas Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the luncheon is to highlight member nonprofits and the work they perform in the community. Not only are they offered free exhibit space at the event in which to distribute information about their organization and its mission, but their services are also highlighted to other businesses through the Shelley Krasnow Community Service Award nomination and award process.

Nominees

There were 33 nonprofit organizations or programs nominated for this year’s Shelley Krasnow Community Service Award:

• American Diabetes Association
• American Red Cross - Prince William Chapter
• Asaph Dance Ensemble
• BEACON for Adult Literacy
• Blue Ridge Assistance Dogs
• Brentsville District High School Orchestra
• CASA of Greater Prince William
• The Center for the Arts
• Children’s Wellness Festival - Rotary Club of Gainesville-Haymarket
• GFWC Dominion Women’s Club
• Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital
• Good Shepherd Housing Foundation
• Greater Manassas Baseball League
• The House, Inc
• Leadership Prince William
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, LIGHT the NIGHT Campaign
• Manassas Community Chorale
• Matthew’s Center for Visual Learning
• Medical Missionaries
• Osbourn Park High School Future Business Leaders of America
• Prince William County Public Schools Education Foundation

• Prince William Study Circles
• Prince William Symphony Orchestra

• Project Mend-A-House, Inc.
• SERVE, Inc.
• Shaken Baby Prevention, Inc.
• Soroptimist International of Manassas
• Transitional Housing BARN
• Voluntary Action Center - Disaster Education Program
• Voluntary Action Center Retired & Senior Volunteer’s Un-Trim-A-Tree 

   Holiday Gift Program
• Week of Hope Program, City of Manassas
• Woodbridge Dance Company
• Yes You Can! Young Lady Young Man