Chamber opens nominations for 2025 Community Spotlight Awards

As part of our Annual Gala tradition, the Bellevue Chamber gives out three different Community Spotlight Awards each year. Learn more about the categories and past winners below, and be sure to fill out your nominations here by May 14. 

The Categories:

• Civic & Community Leader: This award goes to a public servant who has gone above and beyond in tackling a significant community issue. This individual works to not only elevate and support their own colleagues, but to move the region as a whole forward in terms of innovation, compassion, and generosity.
  
  
• Corporate Leader: This award goes to a corporate leader who has shown a consistent record of service to the Eastside. This company takes its social impact work seriously, recognizes the value in investing in its community, and understands that business is more than “just business.”
  
  
• Nonprofit Leader: This award goes to a nonprofit leader who has made significant impacts on the community. There are hundreds of nonprofit organizations here on the Eastside, but this organization has an extra special sense of identity and purpose.

Winners of the Past:

2024:

• Civic & Community Leader — Amy Burns, Anthony's Restaurants
• Corporate Leader — Sellen Construction
• Nonprofit Leader — Pride Across the Bridge & St. Jude Children's Hospital
• Lifetime Achievement Award — Patti Payne

2023:

• Civic Leader — Deputy Mayor Jared Nieuwenhuis, City of Bellevue 
• Corporate Leader — Ascend Hospitality Group 
• Nonprofit Leader — The Sophia Way 
• Lifetime Achievement Award — Jennifer Robertson 

2022:

• Civic Leader — Brad Miyake, City of Bellevue
• Corporate Leader — John Howie
• Nonprofit Leader — Hopelink

2021:

• Civic Leader — Mayor Lynne Robinson, Chief Steve Mylett, Bellevue EMTs
• Corporate Leader — Overlake Medical, Republic Services, Symetra 
• Nonprofit Leader — Bellevue LifeSpring, The Sophia Way, Congregations for the Homeless 

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