WCCAA Recognition Award
Every year WCCAA asks our membership to nominate individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field of early care and education in the state of Wisconsin. The contribution can take a variety of forms and could be an administrator of a child care program, a resource person, a government or civic official, a person in the media or communication field, or a philanthropist. Our board then considers these nominations and selects one or more individuals to receive a recognition award at our annual winter conference.
In addition, we also seek nominations each year for corporations who have made note-worthy contributions in some way to better children and families in our state. WCCAA firmly believes that corporations can play a tremendous role in supporting quality child care. This also can happen in a variety of ways – implementing family-friendly policies for employees, providing child care assistance for families, giving financial or other support to existing quality child care programs, generating public awareness of issues that affect children and families, etc.
Nominations for Individual and Corporation awards are accepted from August through October. The deadline for accepting nominations is November 1st. Nominations are then reviewed and the WCCAA Board makes a decision at the November Board Meeting. Recipients are notified and awards are presented at the Annual Statewide Conference. The links at the bottom of this page are to access the nomination forms.
A look back at some of our honored previous recipients:
Individual Award
1997 David Linsmeier
1997 Vicky Lenzlinger
1998 Rosemary Troia Baker
1999 Jere Wallden
2000 Pam Boulton
2000 Walter Schwede
2001 Karen Driscoll
2001 Chandra Morris
2002 Laura Jo Pearson
2003 Bessie Gray
2004 Ena Faye Benedict
2004 Chip Donohue
2005 Mary Madsen
2006 Jo Johnson
2006 Jim Leonhart
2006 Barb Meulemans
2007 George Hagenauer
2007 Fran Kielas
2008 Jim Ryan
2008 Verna Drake
2008 Becky Wurzer
2009 Marilyn Krinker
2010 Beryl Anders
Corporate Award
1999 Monroe Clinic
1999 JanSport
2000 LaCausa
2000 Ft. Atkinson Memorial Hospital
2001 Next Generation Now
2001 Commercial Communications
2002 St. Mary’s, Green Bay
2004 Promega
2007 Hans Lenzlinger/New Glarus Hotel
2008 Kohl’s Kids Care Kollege
2009 SC Johnson/Bright Horizons Family Solutions