Awards
Our two volunteer "Partnering for Compliance™ Mentor of Excellence Awards" are a highlight of our conference. Our first 'Mentor of Excellence Award' is granted annually to an employee of any company who undertakes to mentor a small-to-medium business (SMB) throughout the year in export/import controls regulations. This award recognizes the important role of mentoring and partnering between the larger corporations and our SMBs to ensure our SMBs - the backbone of our economy - remain compliant, vibrant and successful. We strongly encourage robust participation in this voluntary program as a means of strengthening our global market share for our manufacturing and technology sectors.
Our second 'Mentor of Excellence Award' is granted to an employee of any company for outstanding 'in-house' mentoring of employees that ensures corporate-wide understanding of U.S. export/import controls regulations. Collaborative training and communications skills will be major factors in this award.
If you are aware of such a mentor, or indeed if you are a mentor, who will attend our annual "Partnering for Compliance™" conference, we would like to hear from you with the following details:
(1) Your full name (as the nominator), company title and company name, address, email address and telephone number, (2) mentor nominee's full name, company title and company name, address, email address and telephone number, and (3) a brief description of that person's mentoring during the year.
For SMB 'Mentor of Excellence Award,' please include details of the SMB(s) mentored. Nominator, mentor and mentee(s) will be recognized at the conference.
The mentor must be present at our "Partnering for Compliance™" conference in order that the award can be granted. For our "Partnering for Compliance™" 2009 program we will need all details by February 13, 2009. Unfortunately, nominations received after this date can not be considered.
A panel of independent judges, to include a government representative, will assist in deciding who will receive these awards each year. The judging criterion will be based on the level of mentoring that has taken place over the year to include time spent mentoring, the success of the business(es) mentored and, in the case of the SMB award, appreciation shown by the mentee(s). The judges' decision will be final in all instances.
The mentee(s) for the SMB "Mentor of Excellence Award" must at all times show and have consideration for the mentor's time and efforts.
Your partnering and mentoring efforts are enormously helpful in encouraging and enhancing our economic growth. We deeply appreciate the continued partnering of all mentors, particularly given the stressful work environment of today.
Scholarships
We will give two full scholarships annually to full-time graduate students to attend our "Partnering for Compliance™" conference who are studying International Business at the University of Central Florida. The students will be chosen by the Business Studies faculty of the University. The method of choosing the students and the decision of the faculty will be final in all instances.
