Lana Faessler Award

Sue Bannon, Executive Director, Midland Area Reading Council, was the fourth annual recipient of the Lana Faessler Outstanding Service Award. The award is presented annually to an employee of a Laubach Literacy Ontario agency who has given Outstanding Service to his or her agency and community by advancing literacy in the community.

Past Recipients:

2008: Margaret Maynard, Executive Director, Literacy Council of Niagara West
2007: Val Sadler, Executive Director, Hamilton Literacy Council
2006: Lana Faessler, Executive Director, Laubach Literacy Ontario

What does it take to qualify for the Lana Faessler Outstanding Service Award?

The Criteria

1. The employee will be currently employed with the member council and have worked at their agency for a minimum of 5 years. The employee will have shown a dedication to their agency and to advancing the cause of literacy in their community.
2. The employee will have generated initiatives in their community that raised awareness and/or funds for their agency.
3. The employee will have also accrued volunteer hours over and above his/her work schedule through tutoring, training, public awareness campaigns, fund raising events or committee work.
4. The employee has upgraded his/her skills as related to his/her daily work and/or their volunteer commitment.

The Process

1. The member agency will submit a written nomination form with supporting documentation for claims of outstanding service, to the LLO board of directors.
2. The nomination forms will be submitted by a predetermined date prior to the Annual General Meeting of LLO.
3. An Ad Hoc committee will review all nominations submitted on time and determine the award winner. The winner will be announced at the LLO Annual Conference.
4. The winner will receive a personal plaque declaring he/she is a winner of this award. The winner will keep this plaque.
5. The nominating agency will be presented with a plaque announcing their winner. The agency will keep that plaque for one year and return it to the LLO office in time for LLO to present to the next year’s winner and their agency.
6. A picture of the winner will be taken and used in the LLO newsletter and on the LLO website.