Your nominee should meet all of the criteria for the category selected. If not, the application may be rejected or placed in the category the reviewing committee deems appropriate.
Application Essay
Submit a TYPED ESSAY (STATEMENT) of 300 words or less to tell us about your Nominee. Paint a picture about him, using words. Please emphasize how the nominee is or has been involved in the life/lives of his children or grandchildren. Give us examples of actions and deeds of the father, which allows the readers to know his character, his nurturing spirit, and his attributes which correspond to the category description. In other words, why is this Father s special? What distinguishes him?
Please submit a digital PHOTO of the NOMINEE ONLY.
Awards are given in the following categories:
- Solo Warrior (the father who never married the child’s mother and who is the primary custodial parent)
- Love Cares (the married father, living in the home)
- Fatherhood Forever (the divorced father, who divorced the mother, not the children)
- The Village Dad (the non-biological father who stepped into the shoes of father)
- Living Legacy (the elderly father, the role model for all other fathers).
The winners of these awards are nominated by their children, wives, ex-wives, parents, siblings, other relatives, friends, coworkers and others who know and admire their great qualities. Nominees are primarily from Los Angeles County, but are not limited to Los Angeles County.