What is a community champion?
For the context of this annual award, A Community Champion is a business or non-profit, whose core values are their community!Resilient Ecosystems Mission is to develop connected community, each year we seek out Champions for recognition. The glue that holds much of existing community together is business and human services organizations, the best of these hold the community in their heart.
2021 Award Recipient: Black Ring Distillery, Tom and Heather Martin.
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The selection process to this point has been in house and included several visits by our team to these businesses looking for consistent behavior, service and quality. Going forward we will be taking recommendations from the community which will be reviewed by our in-house team and a group of vetted reviewers being developed now.
Criteria All of these businesses have these things in common... a focus on people, on service, on their community! When you go in, you are greeted and you get the feeling that they care, that they go out of their way to make sure you get what you came for, if possible, and to feel welcome. This is how you should feel in all places you do business, the reason you don't starts with management and permeates all levels. If the people working there don't feel well treated, you will never feel welcome.
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Timeframe and Categories Certificates of Recognition are presented at the Stone Soup event in February every year. Starting in 2024 there will be three categories:
- Community Champions, small business actively engaged in their community!
- Community Champions, local non-profits that support their community and often go above and beyond!
- Local service agencies that go above and beyond to help meet the needs of the community!
COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
These Champions exemplify local, community focused, service based business. While they do not have strong online presence, they work everyday to make their community better. Sometimes it is by doing business in a way that supports, rather than ignores the needs of the people they serve. We Award this certificate to businesses that work with the community and focus on both supporting and building, engaged and resilient communities!
These Champions exemplify local, community focused, service based business. While they do not have strong online presence, they work everyday to make their community better. Sometimes it is by doing business in a way that supports, rather than ignores the needs of the people they serve. We Award this certificate to businesses that work with the community and focus on both supporting and building, engaged and resilient communities!
2024 and Beyond
Big plans are in development for February of 2024, The Return of Stone Soup!
When Resilient Ecosystems was first launched, in that time before we had any clue of the breadth of what we needed to do, we hosted a fund raiser dinner at the United Methodist Church in Bremerton, the first Stone Soup. The event was based on the 1968, Ann McGovern version, retelling the folk tale of community and how together we do better. February 2024, we will be hosting the second Stone Soup with Chef Chris Nau presiding over the soup. Resilient Ecosystems has a new partner for this, and other, events: The West Side Improvement Club, 4109 W E St, Bremerton, WA 98312
*Stone Soup is a Community Connection Event, no longer a fund raiser, presentation and information tables are for community knowledge only!
When Resilient Ecosystems was first launched, in that time before we had any clue of the breadth of what we needed to do, we hosted a fund raiser dinner at the United Methodist Church in Bremerton, the first Stone Soup. The event was based on the 1968, Ann McGovern version, retelling the folk tale of community and how together we do better. February 2024, we will be hosting the second Stone Soup with Chef Chris Nau presiding over the soup. Resilient Ecosystems has a new partner for this, and other, events: The West Side Improvement Club, 4109 W E St, Bremerton, WA 98312
*Stone Soup is a Community Connection Event, no longer a fund raiser, presentation and information tables are for community knowledge only!
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COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS OF 2024!
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