Do you know anyone, a family member, friend or neighbor who helps to improve your neighborhood? 

Maybe they have performed a good deed or provide a service that you believe deserves recognition. 

You can honor them with a nomination for the Good Neighbor Award. The Good Neighbor Award recognizes the ongoing efforts of Kansas City, Missouri residents who are making exceptional contributions to improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods. The award is designed to honor those who make a difference in our community without seeking or receiving recognition for their service. All nominees will be honored at the National Night Out in the summer each year. Nominations are accepted throughout the year and must be received by June 30, 2011 for this year.

The Good Neighbor Award is the City's way of recognizing the residents who are committed to preserving, maintaining and improving the quality of life in their neighborhoods and our community. Mayor Mark Funkhauser presented the Good Neighbor Award last year to twenty-two (22) Kansas City 

residents at the National Night Out in Parade Park.

Please describe in 400 words or less why you think the nominee deserves the Kansas City Good 

Neighbor Award, addressing the following questions:

Community Involvement

What specific actions has this person performed during the current calendar year for which they 

merit this award?

How have this person’s actions gone beyond the normal scope of citizen responsibilities?

Did the nominee go to great effort or invest an exceptional amount of time in performing their 

actions?

Benefit to Community

How have this person’s actions benefited their neighborhood or the City of Kansas City as a whole?

What are the geographic areas (e.g., block, neighborhood, City of Kansas City) and demographics 

(e.g. youth, elderly, all residents) of the population that benefits?

Are the benefits tangible, intangible, or both?

Have the person’s actions fostered self-help, quality of life, or community involvement in others?

Have they contributed to environmental conservation or sustainability?

Submit your nominations to ncs@kcmo.org or to actioncenter@kcmo.org with a subject line of “Good 

Neighbor Award” or call 3-1-1 or 816 513-1313.