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AMCHAM honours corporate, civic leaders

The American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica (AMCHAM) will honour Jamaican corporate and civic leaders for the second year, through an awards programme launched last year which focuses on celebrating and encouraging philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in Jamaica.

Nominations for the 2011 AMCHAM Business and Civic Leadership Awards programme opened today (Aug. 10) at a press conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

Mrs. Becky Stockhausen, Executive Director of AMCHAM, told the press conference that the awards programme “is designed to showcase businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations that are driving and achieving economic and social progress in Jamaica, through ethical leadership, stewardship and community building activities”.

She said there will be seven awards, this year including:

“The AMCHAM Jamaica Award for Excellence for Corporate Social Responsibility” which celebrates corporate citizenship and a company’s business strategy and programmes or projects which improve communities. Two awards will be presented in this category, one for small companies and one for large.

“The AMCHAM Jamaica Award of Excellence for Civic Leadership”, which recognizes sustained commitment by individuals and non-profit organizations to national and community development through projects that enhance development and engender civic responsibility. Here again, two awards will be presented – one for an individual and the other for an organization.

“The AMCHAM Jamaica Award of Excellence Art & Culture”, this award recognizes outstanding contribution to the positive promotion of “Brand Jamaica” in a range of spheres including promotions, the visual and the literary arts, by individuals, companies and non-profit organizations. There will be three awards in this category – individual, organization and community and or school-based organization.

Mrs. Stockhausen said that nomination forms can be accessed from their offices; via e-mail: amcham@cwjamaica.com; or, via their website at: www.amchamjamaica.org. Nominations for the awards are being accepted until September 9, 2011, at AMCHAM Jamaica offices, Suite 119, Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, 81 Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5.

For more information, contact:

Marcia Erskine

Tel: 960-3170