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We highly encourage you to learn more about each Gems of Excellence award and the 21 finalists before voting in the following seven categories! Click the button below to learn more.

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* Are you/is your company a member of the Mason Deerfield Chamber?
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Make the Mile Brick Award: This award recognizes an individual, business, organization, or community partner whose leadership, creativity, advocacy, volunteerism, investment, or action has meaningfully helped advance the Mason Mile and bring the Make the Mile vision to life. Nominees must demonstrate a meaningful contribution to the Mason Mile or Make the Mile initiative.​
Rising Star Award: This award recognizes an individual whose leadership, influence, and community impact are gaining momentum. The recipient is someone who is stepping forward, creating connections, taking on greater leadership, and becoming an increasingly visible positive force within the MADE community. It recognizes trajectory. There is no age requirement or expectation that a nominee be at the beginning of their career.
MADE for Good Award: This award recognizes a MADE Chamber member or individual who puts service into action, creating meaningful positive impact and helping make the Mason-Deerfield community stronger. The award recognizes that doing good can take many forms—from volunteerism and charitable service to inclusion, sustainability, generosity, community partnerships, and businesses intentionally using their people and resources to make a difference.
Building Futures Award: This award recognizes an individual, business, organization, educator, employer, or community partner helping connect people to education, skills, careers, and opportunities that strengthen the future of our workforce. The award celebrates leadership that creates stronger pathways between education, training, skilled trades, employers, and meaningful career opportunities, including work connected to broader MADE workforce and MADE Hub initiatives.
Garnet Award: This award recognizes a man whose outstanding leadership, character, professional accomplishment, service, and example have made a meaningful impact on his organization and the broader MADE community. The recipient demonstrates leadership that strengthens organizations, develops relationships, serves others, and inspires the people around him.
Pink Diamond Award: This award recognizes a woman whose outstanding leadership, professional accomplishment, service, influence, and example have made a meaningful impact on her organization and the broader MADE community. The recipient inspires and strengthens others through the way she leads, serves, mentors, connects, and contributes.
MADE Business of the Year: This award recognizes a MADE Chamber member business or organization that demonstrates excellence in business while making a meaningful contribution to the community it calls home. It celebrates organizations that exemplify strong leadership, innovation, growth, investment, exceptional experiences, community engagement, and a commitment to excellence.

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