- Award Overview
- 1A: Successful Non-Fair Event at your Facility produced or co-produced by Facility staff
- 1B: Best 1st Year Event NOT produced by Facility Staff
- 1C: Non-Fair Event Designed to Educate
- 1D: Non-Fair Event Designed to Support a Non-Profit
- 2A: Video Used to Promote Your Facility
- 2B: Printed Promotional Material Specific to Non-Fair Facility Usage or Rentals
- 2C: Website (Facility Specific)
- 2D: Social Media (Facility Specific)
- 2E: Other: Unique Marketing Tactic
- 3A: Facility Beautification Project
- 3B: Capital Improvement Plan and Execution – include site plans, funding and finished result
- 4: Facility Partnerships – unique partnerships with other business(es) that sponsor the facility or grounds year-round.
Non-Fair Facility Usage
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The Non-Fair Facility Usage Program will recognize member fairs creating successful projects, plans and partnerships outside of their fair. The IAFE will share these achievements with our membership, allowing facility staff to utilize the ideas to incorporate into their own facility.Successful Non-Fair Event at your Facility produced or co-produced by Facility staff
Recognition of a successful non-fair event taking place in the facility which is produced in conjunction with or without a partner. Event should have taken place in the 12 months prior to the awards judging (which is approximately Oct. 1 of the current year).
Submission Rules
Entries should include an essay providing the event description; marketing activities used to promote the event; information on the reaction of attendees to the event; and pictures from the event to help provide a visual to judges of the contest.
Judging Criteria:
Event Success and Overall achievement (25 points)
Promotion of Event (25 points)
Goal Achievement, Attendee Reaction (25 points)
Originality and Uniqueness (25 points)
Best 1st Year Event NOT produced by Facility Staff
Recognition of a successful non-fair event taking place in the facility which is NOT produced in conjunction with a partner. The event entered must have been held in your Facility for the first time ever.Submission Rules
Entries should include an essay providing the event description; marketing activities used to promote the event; information on the reaction of attendees to the event; and pictures from the event to help provide a visual to judges of the contest.
Judging Criteria:
Event Success and Overall achievement (25 points)
Promotion of Event (25 points)
Goal Achievement, Attendee Reaction (25 points)
Originality and Uniqueness (25 points)
Video Used to Promote Your Facility
Recognition of one specific aspect of your overall campaign. Those entering should submit a digital image and a brief description of outlining how the item, action or campaign was used to promote your facility. A working link must be provided for category 2A. For categories 2C, 2D, and 2E, we would expect a screenshot(s) to be included in your entry along with the description of the campaign.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Printed Promotional Material Specific to Non-Fair Facility Usage or Rentals
Recognition of one specific aspect of your overall campaign. Those entering should submit a digital image and a brief description of outlining how the item, action or campaign was used to promote your facility. A working link must be provided for category 2A. For categories 2C, 2D, and 2E, we would expect a screenshot(s) to be included in your entry along with the description of the campaign.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Website (Facility Specific)
Recognition of one specific aspect of your overall campaign. Those entering should submit a digital image and a brief description of outlining how the item, action or campaign was used to promote your facility. A working link must be provided for category 2A. For categories 2C, 2D, and 2E, we would expect a screenshot(s) to be included in your entry along with the description of the campaign.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Social Media (Facility Specific)
Recognition of one specific aspect of your overall campaign. Those entering should submit a digital image and a brief description of outlining how the item, action or campaign was used to promote your facility. A working link must be provided for category 2A. For categories 2C, 2D, and 2E, we would expect a screenshot(s) to be included in your entry along with the description of the campaign.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Facility Beautification Project
Entries should include an essay describing the Project or Plan. Please include images to help with the understanding of the Improvement to your Facility.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Capital Improvement Plan and Execution – include site plans, funding and finished result
Entries should include an essay describing the Project or Plan. Please include images to help with the understanding of the Improvement to your Facility.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Facility Partnerships – unique partnerships with other business(es) that sponsor the facility or grounds year-round.
Entries should include an essay describing the Partnership. Please include images to help with the understanding the value and uniqueness of the Partnership.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)
Non-Fair Event Designed to Educate
Recognition of a successful non-fair event designed to provide education such as conferences, field trips, workforce training, K-9 training, etc. The entered event can be produced by the fair or a promoter.Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Event Success and Overall achievement (25 points)
Promotion of Event (25 points)
Goal Achievement, Attendee Reaction (25 points)
Originality and Uniqueness (25 points)
Non-Fair Event Designed to Support a Non-Profit
Recognition of an event that supports a local non-profit such as a banquet, fun run, etc. The entered event can be produced by the fair or a promoter.Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Event Success and Overall achievement (25 points)
Promotion of Event (25 points)
Goal Achievement, Attendee Reaction (25 points)
Originality and Uniqueness (25 points)
Other: Unique Marketing Tactic
Recognition of one specific aspect of your overall campaign. Those entering should submit a digital image and a brief description of outlining how the item, action or campaign was used to promote your facility. A working link must be provided for category 2A. For categories 2C, 2D, and 2E, we would expect a screenshot(s) to be included in your entry along with the description of the campaign.
Submission Rules
Judging Criteria:
Originality (40 points)
Essay or brief description (depending on category of marketing activities or project, plan or partnership) (30 points)
Goal Achievement (30 points)