2025 Community Care Nominations

Affect needs your nominees for the 2025 Community Care Awards! This cycle, we have four $670 awards available.

Who’s eligible

The person you’re nominating should be:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • A multiply marginalized person of color
  • Living in Oregon
  • Working within their own community

Multiply marginalized: in addition to racial inequality, they experience marginalization through gender, sexual orientation, disability or chronic illness (including mental illness), and/or religion.

How this works

  • If there are more nominees than available awards, we will prioritize new awardees, Black and Indigenous people, disabled folx, and people with non-traditional backgrounds.
  • Awards are sent on a rolling basis, as long as we still have funds and the eligible nominee accepts.
  • Nominees become awardees when they send an email acceptance and provide payment information, including a completed W-9.
  • Nominees can accept the award privately or choose to be part of public announcements.

What counts as care work?

Types of community care that we’d love to award:

  • Online / social media education in the form of Twitter threads, Instagram posts, YouTube / TikTok videos, etc
  • Community documentation / safety work
  • Grassroots organizing / peer support
  • Social justice crowdfunding / fundraising
  • Mutual aid / direct aid
  • Volunteer work with social justice nonprofits

You can also check out past awardees for inspiration!

Nomination form

If the nominee doesn’t usually list their email publicly, please ask for their consent before sharing it with us.

About 2-5 sentences describing the nominee and the community care they partake in.

Please include full URLs. This info will be helpful in case we can’t reach the nominee by email.

For example, if the nominee has specific communication access needs, please include that here.

Nominations will close on Monday, March 3, 2025, 6pm Pacific.

If the form doesn’t work or you need it in an alternative format, here’s a Google Doc version!

Frequently asked questions

  • I’m the person nominating someone else. What should I expect?

    You should get an automated email confirming the nomination, and we’ll post an overall Community Care Awards update by April 2025.

  • Can I nominate an organization or group instead of a person?

    The Community Care Awards are only open to individuals, as it’s ultimately always people providing the care.

  • Can I help expand the reach of this fund?

    Donations are always welcome. With funds processed through our fiscal sponsor, there’s a slight delay between donations going through and us being notified. If you want to add an award to this cycle, please reach out and we’ll see what we can coordinate!

  • Is this award considered taxable income?

    Yes, at this time, the Community Care Awards are considered taxable income. If this is a problem for the nominee, please let us know and we can explore different options.

Have more questions? Ask hi@affecttheverb.com.