Submit Your Nominations for our 2025 Annual Awards
Submit your nominations today!
We are seeking nominations for awards that will be presented at our Annual Awards Event on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
Nominators may submit the same individual, group, or organization for more than one award, though no recipient will actually be selected to receive more than one in the same year. Businesses, organizations, or individuals are not required to be affiliated with the Chamber to be eligible for awards. Self-nominations are not permitted, however, a member of an organization’s board of directors may submit a nomination on its behalf.
***Beginning with the 2023 awards, named awards will be retired (after 10 years) with respect and appreciation for the individuals that the awards are named after. The Chamber will determine if the award shall be renamed, or retired entirely. Award categories may be added, retired or combined on an annual basis for efficiency and relevance. For a complete list of prior awards and winners, please click on past years award recipients.
Deadline for nominations – Wednesday, February 5, 2025 by 5:00 PM
Award Descriptions:
- GENERAL INTENT: The Norbert X. Dowd Award is intended to honor an individual(s) who serves their business and/or business community with distinction and who contributes significantly to the overall good of business and the betterment of the communities of the Bangor region.
- GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF BUSINESS: The recipient should contribute his/her talents and abilities to the overall betterment of the Bangor region.
- CREATIVE ABILITY: The recipient should show a consistent high degree of creative or original thinking.
- BUSINESS SERVICE: The recipient should show a solid and continuous record of achievement for a company as an employee.
- COMMUNITY SERVICE: The recipient should be active in civic, religious or organizational groups dedicated to some phase of human or social welfare in the Bangor region.
- PERSONAL INTEGRITY: The recipient should show constructive activity and integrity in all business relations.
2025 NORBERT X. DOWD NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS: Harold L. Nason, Frederic S. Newman,Jon Grant, Herbert E. Sargent, Larry K. Mahaney, Curtis Hutchins, Galen Cole, Wilma A. Bradford,D. Arthur Johnson, R. Leon Williams, Douglas H. Brown, Samuel Saliba, Thomas A. Greenquist, Carl & Helen Libby,Malcolm E. Jones, Stephen & Tabitha King, G. Clifton Eames, Margo Cobb, Stan Israel, Joe Cyr, Ralph Leonard, Leonard Minsky, Peirce Webber, Abe & Frieda Miller, Lloyd E. Willey, Jack E. Quirk, Harold O. Bouchard, Charles F. Bragg, Ed Darling, Richard & Elizabeth Warren, Edwin N. Clift, Sister Mary Norberta Malinowski, John Rohman, Danny and Carla Lafayette, Gary Smith, John W. Bragg, Peter G. Vigue, Miles Theeman, John Simpson, Andrew Hamilton, Jean Deighan, Michael Aube, Carol Epstein, Steve Schley, Richard Fournier, Elizabeth Sutherland
This award seeks to recognize an individual, business or organization that has made significant contributions to the arts, entertainment and cultural opportunities in the Bangor region.
2025 “SPIRIT OF THE REGION” NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS: The Nite Show with Danny Cashman, Brian Hinrichs and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Collins Center for the Arts, Waterfront Concerts
This award recognizes a business (over 25 employees) operating in our region that has set an example in leadership, innovation and quality, and/or has provided noteworthy economic opportunity to the people of the Bangor Region.
2025 LARGE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS: WABI-TV, Bangor Daily News, Telford Aviation, Sargent Corporation, Cianbro, Miller Drug, Bangor Savings Bank, Oxford Networks, Cross Insurance, WBRC Architects-Engineers, Hollywood Casino, RH Foster Energy, Darling’s, Dysart’s, CES, Inc., GE Gas Power, WS Emersons, ERA Dawson-Bradford Co., REALTORS
Small businesses account for approximately 80% of the Bangor Region Chamber’s total membership and we do everything possible to ensure their success. This award recognizes a business (with less than 25 full or part-time employees) for their tireless work and embodiment of the spirit of enterprise.
2025 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS: Rebecca’s, Tiller & Rye
Non-Profit of the Year
This award is given to a non-profit organization that has made a notable difference in the lives of the people who live in the Bangor Region.
PAST RECIPIENTS: American Folk Festival, Bangor Humane Society, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Maine Discovery Museum, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals of EMHS, Acadia Hospital, Foster Center for Student Innovation at the University of Maine, Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau, Penquis, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Bangor Public Library, United Way of Eastern Maine, Eastern Area Agency on Aging, Bangor YMCA
This award recognizes an individual who has contributed a significant amount of time and expertise to serving the Bangor region either by helping others directly or by enhancing community or regional assets that add to that quality of life.
2025 SARAH DUBAY COMMUNITY SERVICE NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS:
Community Service Award: George Eaton II, Hilda Hutchins McCollum, Senior League World Series, Bill Lucy, Hammond Street Senior Center, City of Bangor, Mark Woodward, Eastern Maine Community College, Bangor Housing Authority, Bangor Area Recovery Network, Norman Heitmann, Tanya Emery, Thomas Judge
Sarah Dubay Professional Service Award: Kristen McAlpine, David Dunning
Recognizing a newer business whose innovation and creativity have succeeded in opening new economic opportunities for our region.
2025 INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP NOMINATION FORM
PAST RECIPIENTS: Devil’s Half Acre Distillery, Global Secure Shipping
