Earning Criteria

• Only IBM employees are eligible to receive an IBM Volunteer Excellence Award.
• Award recipients are evaluated based on their overall commitment and service as part of their volunteerism, including:  The impact of the volunteer project to the organization and/or community; Leveraging of IBM resources in supporting project success; Establishing outcomes and measurements that show success for the project; Providing evidence to ensure sustainability of the project. This is a highly prestigious award and reflects the "best of the best" within the IBM Volunteers Program.
• The volunteer's relationship with the  not-for-profit organization. This includes providing evidence of following: How long have they been involved with the organization? How did volunteer get involved; Describe the impact of their skills-based volunteerism on the organization; How/why was it unique, innovative or creative to the organization and the problem they were trying to solve?
• The volunteer's ability to establish outcomes or measurements that show the project’s success. Evidence of these outcomes/measurements is required.
• The volunteer's ability to establish steps/processes to ensure the sustainability and/or repeatability of the efforts of this project. Evidence of these existing processes is required.