Nominate an Educator

Welcome

This year, the Covenant Foundation honors three extraordinary Jewish educators with the nineteenth annual Covenant Awards. They are Dr. Erica Brown, Rabbi Stuart Seltzer, and Ms. Nili Simhai. We have enclosed descriptions of these remarkable educators. Each Award carries with it a $36,000 prize for the recipient and a $5,000 prize for the organization that employs the Award winner.

I am now writing to ask for your help in identifying the 2010 Covenant Award recipients. The Foundation seeks nominations of extraordinary educators who have been overlooked, as well as outstanding educators in areas of Jewish education that have received too little attention. We continue to recognize the need to identify remarkable classroom teachers whose groundbreaking work can serve as a model to the community. Please help us to find and honor the next recipients of the Covenant Award.

In the following guidelines, you will find everything you need to nominate a Jewish educator for the Award. Please read all the instructions with care and take note of the nominator’s various responsibilities. The deadlines indicated on the materials are firm; the Foundation cannot accept materials that arrive after the deadline.

For your information, please note that those educators whose dossiers were first considered for the 2008 or 2009 Awards will automatically be considered for the 2010 Awards. Nominees with complete, still eligible dossiers who do not wish to be considered should notify the Foundation as soon as possible. The Foundation also allows the renomination of Award nominees who were considered for the 2007 Awards or earlier (nominated in or before 2006). However, all new materials are required for those nominees, as the Foundation has disposed of all dossiers submitted for the 2007 Awards or earlier. Candidates may contact the Covenant Foundation if they have any questions about their status.

Warmly,

Harlene Winnick Appelman

Follow the steps on the arrow to nominate an educator online. At any point, you can return to the previous page by clicking the numbers on the arrow:

If you prefer, you can also download a PDF version of the nomination guidelines that you can print and mail by post.

---

Timeline

November 19, 2009

Statement of Award Nomination received by the Covenant Foundation no later than 5 p.m. EST in hard copy and e-mail

December 1, 2009

Three Letters of Support for the Award Nominee received by the Covenant Foundation no later than 5 p.m. EST in hard copy and e-mail

December 1, 2009

Biographical Information, Statement of Motivation, and Statement of Purpose from the Award Nominee received by the Covenant Foundation no later than 5 p.m. EST in hard copy and e-mail

May,2010

Covenant Awards recipients announced

---

»Apply

Learn how to apply for a grant, download forms and samples

»Nominate

Nominate an outstanding Jewish educator for the Covenant Awards