WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 2020.
Please send any supporting materials via email to:
NCEJN EJ Summit Coordinators
Email: ncejsummit@gmail.com
Overview The Community Resilience Award is designed to give the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) the opportunity to spotlight community groups and individuals who have made a difference in environmental struggles. Past recipients include: David Caldwell 2014, Belinda Joyner 2015; Macy Hinson, 2016; Devon Hall & REACH, 2016; Ellis Tatum, 2017.
Qualifications for Nominees
- A community individual or community group currently working on an environmental injustice issue
- Showing commitment for a safe and healthy environment for the community
- Unselfishly giving to create a more just society
- Working for political and social reform
- Constantly using activism and organizing in the community to achieve environmental justice
Nomination Procedures While there are no set guidelines for a nomination, a winning nomination should fulfill the qualifications listed above. Nominations should be sent to the NCEJN EJ Summit Coordinators, as specified below. The EJ Summit Coordinators will distribute copies of the nominations to the NCEJN Planning Committee. The committee will acknowledge nominations received, notify recipients, and communicate the selection process outcome to all nominees. Email submission is preferred.
The Award Presentation The annual award is presented at the NCEJN Summit.
I nominate Lewis Dozier and the Royal Oak Concerned Citizens Association for the Community Resilience award 2022. Lewis Dozier, as ROCCA’s founder and leader from at least 2009 through 2017, organized to stop the expansion of a landfill in their historic Freemen community in Brunswick County NC, and won using civic engagement and a lawsuit, bringing water infrastructure to their community as well as a new school.