Call for Nominations: 2025 EmpowerLA Awards

Call for Nominations: 2025 EmpowerLA Awards
Board of Neighborhood Commissioners to Honor Neighborhood Councils That Best Achieve Their Mission

The Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (Commission) is now accepting nominations for the 2025 EmpowerLA Awards. These annual awards recognize Neighborhood Councils that best fulfill their City Charter mandate of promoting more citizen participation in government and making government more responsive to local needs.

Nominations, including self-nominations, should be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 31, 2025 via a short online form.

The Commission will present the awards at the 2025 Congress of Neighborhoods, honoring seven Neighborhood Councils—one from each of the seven Commission Regions—based on the following criteria:

1. Neighborhood Councils that have made remarkable achievements in fulfilling their dual mission of:
   ● Promoting more citizen participation in City government; and
   ● Making City government more responsive to local needs.

2. Neighborhood Councils that embody the highest ideals of:
   ● Inclusiveness
   ● Non-discrimination
   ● Transparency
   ● Independence
   — as outlined in the Plan for a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils.

The Commission will also use the Neighborhood Councils Rules and Best Practices Guide as a source of additional criteria and a tool for evaluating Neighborhood Council achievements.

For questions, please contact [email protected].