NAVPLG Awards honor volunteer programs and volunteer engagement leaders who work in recognized government agencies.
 

2025 - Nominations opening soon

Agency Awards

• Community Engagement Excellence
• Innovative Program

• Outstanding Public Official
• Outstanding Volunteer Administrator
• New Volunteer Administrator
• Lifetime Achievement

• Award of Merit

2024 Recipients

2024 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator Award: Kim Nishihara, Queen Creek, Arizona
2024 Award of Merit: Gretchen Jordan, AL!VE
 

2023 Recipients (see article)

2023 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator Award: Kellie Vitaich, City of Davis, California.
2023 New Volunteer Administrator Award: Brian Beach, Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
2023 Innovative Program Award: City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2023 Award of Merit: Corina Sadler, CVA, City of Plano, Texas
2023 Rising to Excellence Award: Volunteer Gwinnett, Gwinnett County, Georgia
 

2022 Recipients (see article)

2022 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator Award: Jody Cook, City of Columbia, Missouri
2022 Innovative Program Award: Volunteer Gwinnett, Gwinnett County, Georgia
2022 Rising to Excellence Award: 3rd Cavalry Regiment & Cen-Tex Partnership at Fort Hood, Texas
 

2021 Recipients (see article)

2021 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator Award:  Tibby Larson, City of Salem, Oregon
2021 Innovative Program Award: City of Shawnee, Kansas - Neighbors Helping Neighbors Program
2021 Rising To Excellence Award:  City of Santa Clarita, California
2021 Rising To Excellence Award:  Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia 
 

2020 Recipients

2020 - No Awards Presented due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
 

2019 Recipients (see article)

2019 Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator Award: Meghan Delaney, VolunteerNow - Dallas, TX
2019 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator Award:  Christine Stansfield, Sno-Isle Libraries
2019 Innovative Program Award: City of Dublin, Ohio - Alexa Pilot Project

2018 Recipients (see article)

2018 New Volunteer Administrator: Roxanne Flores-Achmed, City of Killeen, Texas
2018 Innovative Program Award: Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Open Canvas Project - Deconstruct - Reimagine
2018 Award of Merit: City of Kettering, OH - Kettering Leadership Academy
 

2017 Recipients (see article)

2017 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator:  LeeAnn Harvey, Volunteer! Decatur, Decatur, GA
2017 Innovative Program Award: City of San Jose, CA - The Sunday Series
 

2016 Recipients

2016 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator:  CHRISTINE NARDECCHIA, City of Dublin, OH
2016 New Volunteer Administrator: SHAYLON SCOTT, City of Dallas, TX
2016 Innovative Program Award: CITY OF KETTERING, OH
 

2015 Recipients

2015 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: SUE IREY. City of Carlsbad, CA

2015 Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator: JORG HRUSCHKA,City of Fort Lauderdale, FL

2015 Award of Merit: CHANDLER POLICE DEPT (VIPS), Chandler, AZ
 

2014 Recipients (see article)

2014 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: Kathy Halstead, O’Fallon, Missouri
2014 Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator: Anthony Richardson, Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District,  Jurupa Valley, CA
2014 Innovative Program Award:  Gilbert Fire & Rescue Department, Gilbert, Arizona, Kim Yonda
2014 Award of Merit: Volunteer Tyler – Tyler, TX
 

2013 Recipients (see article)

2013 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: Susan Hawes, Portland Parks & Recreation – City Nature East
2013 Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator: Sheryl Ivey, Salt Lake County, Utah
2013 Innovative Program Award:  VolunteerLEON , Walk a Day in a Soldier's Boots
 

2012 Recipients (see article)

2012 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: Robin Popik, City of Plano, Texas
2012 Innovative Program Award:  Volunteer!Decatur, Decatur, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service

2009 Recipients

2009 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: Donna Koehler – Boulder County Public Health, Volunteer Services Program Manager, Boulder, Colorado
2009 Outstanding New Volunteer Administrator: Corina Sadler, City of Plano, TX
2009 Innovative Program Award:  Glendale Fire Department Crisis Response Program, Glendale, Arizona

2008 Recipients

2008 Outstanding Volunteer Administrator: Joe Lancaster, Syracuse City School District