13TH ANNUAL
LONG ISLAND IMAGINE AWARDS
EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Crest Hollow Country Club
8325 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury, NY 11797
Cocktail Reception | 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Dinner & Awards | 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Tickets $200 | Nonprofit $125 | Virtual $25
APPLICATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 25, 2024 AT MIDNIGHT!
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YOUR LONG ISLAND 501(C)(3) CAN NOW APPLY IN UP TO 6 CATEGORIES FOR A CHANCE TO COMPETE AND WIN $6,000!
Let’s Imagine:
Learning from the Leaders of the 12th Annual Long Island Imagine
Learn from a contingent of highly regarded non-profit leaders that are successfully moving the sector forward. Let their experience guide you to think differently and effectively advance your non-profit to the next level.
Objective: This discussion was moderated by Kenneth Cerini, CPA, Managing Partner of Cerini & Associates and Founder of the Long Island Imagine Awards, an event designed to recognize Long Island non-profits for their innovation, impact, and leadership.
The Long Island Imagine Awards was created as a way to showcase the nonprofit sector and all the good work that it does, as well as provide opportunities for deeper collaboration within the sector. The event acts as an opportunity to meet new people, discover new organizations doing business on Long Island, develop new relationships, and learn from the organizations that are being honored.
Long Island based nonprofits compete against each other in 6 categories – Arts & Culture; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA); Innovation; Leadership Excellence; Rising Star; & Social Impact, with the winner in each category winning a $5,000 grant. In addition, the 24 finalists, 4 in each category, will each receive a professionally produced video, which will be showcased the night of the event, and two free tickets to the event. ADDITIONALLY, THANKS TO OUR DIAMOND SPONSOR, STERLINGRISK, EACH FINALIST WILL RECEIVE A $1,000 CHECK! This is in addition to the other awards.
THANK YOU DIAMOND SPONSOR STERLINGRISK
THANKS TO STERLINGRISK, EACH FINALIST WILL RECEIVE $1,000 THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT
The Imagine Awards is an award program that
was designed for 3 reasons:
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To shine a spotlight on those nonprofits that are truly unique those with strong leadership, who are innovative in their actions and operations, who are impactful on both a micro and macro perspective, who are significantly advancing programs and the sector on a regular basis, who think out of the box, and who understand the need to effectively collaborate to leverage results.
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To foster relationships having the ability for nonprofit leadership to come together and communicate, to see what each other are doing, to share ideas, and to find ways to effectively work and collaborate with each other creates a more integrated and stronger sector for all of us.
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To provide education it’s a little bit of a cliché, but we don’t know what we don’t know. Nonprofit leadership is often focused on the day to day needs of their organization and don’t always have a place to turn or an avenue to bounce questions off of. The Imagine Awards offers this through idea sharing, access to winners (Let’s Imagine Event), and more.
The Imagine Awards not only provides a $5,000 check to the winner in each category, it provides a professionally developed video to each finalist, it provides an avenue to collaborate and explore, it provides exposure and recognition to the finalists and the sector, and it provides a night where the light is shine in on the sector to spotlight all the amazing things that are happening in the nonprofit community. Imagine Awards participants have developed new partnerships and collaborations, have made corporate connections which has resulted in new board members and contributions, have gain strategic insight into what other organizations are doing, and have developed new friendships and relationships that have proven essential in the growth and development of their organizations.
APPLY IN THESE CATEGORIES
Cerini & Associates Social Impact Award
Certilman Balin Leadership Excellence Award
Claire Friedlander Family Foundation Arts & Culture Award
Flagstar Private Bank Innovation Award
This nonprofit has been innovative in adopting new platforms that have led to a significant increase in the organization’s ability to meet its mission. This could include the implementation of technology that enables the organization to achieve cost savings and better communication; a strategic approach to fundraising; a unique and effective public relations campaign; etc.
Vanguard Benefits Rising Star Award
This award will recognize a nonprofit generating under $2 million in revenue for its outstanding innovation, impact, and achievements in meeting its mission. The award will be given to an organization who demonstrates an outstanding record of sustained achievement, has successfully demonstrated successful financial performance, and has built a reputation for excellence within the community.
*Sponsorship Still Available* DEIA Award
This award recognizes an organization for prioritizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and/or Accessibility within its mission OR within its programming to deepen and expand its DEIA impact and to strive to build DEIA into program design and delivery, staff recruitment and engagement, volunteerism, and donor engagement. The organization needs to show that DEIA is a primary focus and how the organization is effectively addressing DEIA issues through its programming and its organizational culture (from the top down).
CONTESTANT APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
501(C)(3) NONPROFITS SERVICING LONG ISLAND CAN APPLY IN UP TO 6 CATEGORIES! THE WINNER IN EACH CATEGORY WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE EVENT AND WIN $5,000
APPLICATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 25, 2024
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APPLICATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 25, 2024
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
Jovia Financial Credit Union Hall of Fame Award
2025 Hall of Fame Recipient – LGBT Network
The Long Island Imagine Awards Hall of Fame was established to honor those organizations that consistently excel in the areas of leadership, impact, and operations. These organizations continuously operate at the highest level and have been recognized by the Imagine Awards as a consistent winner or finalist.
