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Support Awards Categories

Includes all administrative support, production support, security, maintenance, research, etc. functions that are not addressed by any of the other category groups.  Note that these categories are not for customer service-related support functions.  There are separate customer service categories available. 
   Nominations that won in the 2023 ABAs may be resubmitted for consideration in the 2024 ABAs.  If they have been updated with recent achievements they may be submitted to the same categories in which they won.  If they have not been updated they must be submitted to categories different from those in which they won.

Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories for the 2024 ABAs will include

a. An essay of up to 650 words describing the nominee's accomplishments since January 1 2022, OR a video of up to five (5) minutes in length describing the same.

b. In bullet-list form, a brief summary (up to 150 words) of up to ten (10) of the chief accomplishments of the nominee since the beginning of 2022.

c. Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges.

R01. Support Department of the Year

R02. Support Team of the Year

R03. Support Staffer of the Year: recognizing non-executive support personnel, including office managers, administrative assistants, secretaries, maintenance professionals, etc.  There is no entry fee for this category