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Nominations, Eligibility, Evaluation Criteria

Nominations
CBCA WILL BE BACK WITH BUSINESS THE ARTS AWARDS in 2011 – NOMINATIONS IN SEPTEMBER 2010!

A panel of judges will review the nominations and select finalists in each category who will be announced in January 2011. Judges will then evaluate the finalists and winners will be announced at the 2011 Business for the Arts Awards luncheon in March 2011.

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Eligibility
All companies doing business in Colorado are eligible for these awards. Nominations must be for programs or activities that take place in Colorado. Nonprofit cultural organizations are not eligible.

Evaluation Criteria
Judges evaluate the nominees on:
• The quality and extent of the business/arts partnership or engagement
• Innovation and creativity of the partnership or engagement
• The effect on
- the company and their employees
- cultural organization(s) and/or project(s)
- community vitality and opportunity
• The level and type of support relative to business size and capacity

The judges for the 2009 Business for the Arts Awards are:
• Ashara Ekundayo, Founder, Pan African Arts Society & Café Nuba
• Mariner Kemper, Chairman & CEO, UMB Bank Colorado
• Adam Lerner, Executive Director, The Laboratory of Art + Ideas
• Donna Lynne, President & Executive Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente
• William Murane, Of Counsel, Holland & Hart

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The 2009 Business in the Arts Awards Winners:

Impact
Westword

Leader
Cathey Finlon

Philanthropy
East West Partners

Workspace
4240 Architecture, Inc. and Pinnacol Assurance

For more information on the 2009 winners, click here.