Describe your award, eligibility rules, and judging needs. Makeform creates an award nomination form with nominee details, achievement evidence, supporting files, consent, and routing fields ready for your organization to edit and share.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Residents nominating volunteers and local leaders
Format
Public nomination with evidence and references
Prompt size
333 chars
Example form structure
Public nomination with evidence and references
Nominator details and relationship
Nominee name, role, and organization
Describe the nominee's community impact
Supporting documents or photos
Eligibility and consent confirmation
Suggested routing tags
Eligibility review
Ready for judging
Needs follow-up
Ask for one achievement example with dates and outcomes. Specific evidence gives reviewers more to assess than general praise.
Step 1
Nominate
identity, category, and eligibility
Step 2
Support
examples, outcomes, and attachments
Step 3
Screen
staff checks completeness and fit
Step 4
Review
qualified nominations reach judges
Better nominations
A structured form asks everyone for the same eligibility facts, evidence, and permissions, making entries easier to organize before judging.
A category dropdown and conditional questions direct entries to the relevant judging panel.
Keep dates, examples, outcomes, links, and uploads beside the claims they support.
Eligibility, permission, and completeness checks flag entries needing follow-up.
Designed around your program
Start with the closest workflow, then add your categories, criteria, award period, and instructions.
Capture impact, service dates, references, and contact permission.
Connect values to workplace examples and route entries by team.
Gather achievements, program details, recommendations, and supporting work.
Handle categories, summaries, contributor credits, citations, and conflicts.
Nomination workflow
Turn criteria into a form, test it, share one link, and organize entries for review.
Provide eligibility, categories, required evidence, deadline, and limits.
Refine wording and show category-specific questions only when relevant.
Check required fields, mobile readability, uploads, and confirmation text.
Publish or embed the link, then route entries by category or status.
Form vs email vs document
Structured fields preserve each story while keeping names, categories, dates, and evidence in predictable places.
Field guide
Build the form around decisions reviewers actually make. These six sections capture authorship, eligibility, evidence, support, permissions, and the internal details needed to move an entry forward.
Nominator and nominee
Collect contacts separately and ask how the nominator knows the nominee, giving coordinators a reliable follow-up path.
Award fit
Put category, membership, award period, and threshold questions first. Show follow-ups for the selected category.
Case for recognition
Ask what the nominee did, why it mattered, who benefited, and for one concrete example. Give clear word guidance.
Supporting material
Request only materials the panel will use. Explain file limits and provide fields for published source links.
Consent and disclosure
Explain how entries are reviewed and shared. Collect conflicts and nominee permission when your process requires them.
Operations and routing
Use campaign, region, and source fields where helpful. Coordinators can add screening status, panel assignment, and notes.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for organizers setting up nomination intake, screening, and reviewer handoff.
It lets someone recommend a person, team, project, or organization for recognition. It captures the parties, category, eligibility, case for recognition, evidence, and permissions.
Ask for contacts, relationship, category, eligibility, achievement dates, a summary, a criterion-linked example, outcomes, evidence, references, and consent. Keep every question relevant to screening or judging.
Place criteria beside each prompt. Ask what happened, the nominee's role, when it occurred, who benefited, and what evidence supports it. Include word guidance.
Yes. Use a dropdown and conditional logic to show category-specific criteria and questions. Category values also support routing to the right panel.
Yes. Add uploads for formats your panel reviews, with content and size instructions. Collect links for published evidence when an attachment is unnecessary.
State how nomination information will be reviewed and shared, then ask for the permissions your program requires. You can include nominee permission status, consent to contact references, publication preferences, and a conflict disclosure. Have your organization determine the wording and process appropriate to its program.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect nominations without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Screen entries for completeness and eligibility, organize qualified nominations by category, assign reviewers, and provide a consistent rubric. Separate contacts from judging evidence when using blind review.
Open nominations with a clearer process.
