Official Rules of Comfort Zone’s Everyday Hero Award Program
Our Everyday Hero Award celebrates men, women, and kids in our community who do heroic things in their everyday lives. Each season (or quarter), we focus on a different walk of life and invite people to nominate someone who has shown heroism. The winner, selected from all nominees, receives $500; two runners-up each receive $50.
Spring 2018: We’re celebrating student heroes in elementary school through college.
The nomination period starts March 15 and ends May 15 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. One grand-prize winner and two runners-up will be announced on May 31.
Rules for Eligibility
1. Nominees must live, work, or go to school in our neighboring communities of Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Gwinnett, North Fulton or Pickens counties.
2. Comfort Zone employees and relatives of Comfort Zone employees are not eligible for this award.
3. A person may nominate himself or herself.
4. The winner must agree to being interviewed and to having his or her biography and picture featured on the Comfort Zone website and in the media.
Rules for Submission Materials
1. Any nomination must be made by completing and submitting the nomination form on the Comfort Zone website.
2. The person making the nomination must be at least 18 years old.
3. The person making the nomination must submit a brief essay or description of the nominee’s heroism.
4. The essay must be written in English and be no longer than 500 words.
5. Supporting documents (e.g., a newspaper article about your nominee’s heroism) may also be included.
6. The essay and any supporting documents must be uploaded using the nomination form. The essay must be in Word or a Word-compatible format; supporting documents can be PDF scans.
7. Any person who nominates someone gives Comfort Zone the right to edit, publish, or otherwise duplicate the essay without payment to the author.
8. Any person making a nomination can do so only once per award period.
Rules for Judging and Announcement of Winner
1. Any submission not complying with all rules will be immediately disqualified.
2. Any submission containing information that proves to be false will be disqualified.
3. All compliant submissions will be reviewed and judged by selected Comfort Zone staff.
4. One grand-prize winner and two runners-up will be notified approximately two weeks after the nomination period closes.
5. The grand-prize winner will receive $500; two runners-up will each receive $50.
