The achievement awards provide recognition of the work our clubs do!  It helps our clubs set goals and promotes growth.  

Attached is the Achievement Award form 2025; covering your club’s activities from January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.

While Political and Campaign Awards is a National program, the MoFRW still likes to track your hours as well and uses your hours in our Achievement Awards.  Many clubs don’t do this because of one reason or another, but the NFRW has done a revision in 2026, to help make it easier.  One thing they did was create a tally sheet which you can find on the NFRW  website (Members>>General Resources and Forms>>Award Forms) that not only helps you see all the work you are doing, but also gives the club ideas of things they can do to increase their community involvement and activities.  Unfortunately, they decided to not allow you to count any political and campaign hours that you get paid for.  All the awards the NFRW has to offer are explained on their website with suggestions and while they are not due until the 2027 NFRW Convention, you can still print the forms off and start filling in the information as you complete the different tasks, this way you don’t have to try to remember things you did this year two years from now.  A great example is the Achievement Awards, which asks questions like how many volunteer hours did you have.  The MoFRW Achievement Awards asks a lot of the same questions but it’s annual.  If you fill out the State awards forms and keep that copy, the national awards forms become much easier.  Please check out the NFRW website for more information on awards and a whole lot more.

 Ellen Williamson
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