Nomination Form Crowne Excellence 2026

Community Award Category Descriptions

Company and Community Awards 

• Property Management Company of the Year Award
  Recognizes a property management company that creates an exceptional experience for its employees, residents, and communities. The recipient demonstrates excellence in workplace culture, employee development and retention, resident relations, operational performance, CKAA involvement, and community outreach. Through its leadership and commitment to service, the company makes a meaningful impact within its communities and the broader multifamily industry.
• Community Improvement Award
  Recognizes an apartment community that has been significantly enhanced through renovations, property improvements, or the addition of new amenities. Eligible projects must have been completed between September 2025 and the date the nomination is submitted. and must have meaningfully improved the community’s appearance, functionality, value, or resident experience. 
• Apartment Community Team of the Year Award
  Recognizes an outstanding onsite or multi-site team that works together to manage and support one or more apartment communities. The team demonstrates exceptional collaboration, mutual support, dependable service, and a shared commitment to overcoming challenges and creating a positive experience for their associates, residents, and communities.

Individual Leadership and On-site Awards

• Regional Property Supervisor of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who provides leadership and oversight across a portfolio of apartment communities, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Regional Property Supervisor, Regional Manager, Regional Director, Regional Vice President, Area Manager, District Manager, Portfolio Manager, or a comparable portfolio-level leadership role. The recipient may oversee onsite property managers, multi-site property managers, or other community leaders and demonstrates exceptional leadership, strategic oversight, associate development, operational excellence, and a commitment to the success of the teams and communities throughout their portfolio. 
• Multi-Site Property Manager of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who is directly responsible for the day-to-day management and performance of two or more apartment communities, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Multi-Site Property Manager, Multi-Site Community Manager, Dual-Site Manager, Portfolio Community Manager, or a comparable role with direct management responsibility for multiple communities. The recipient demonstrates exceptional leadership, operational excellence, team development, and a consistent commitment to the success of their associates, residents, and communities. 
• Property Manager of the Year Award
  Recognizes the individual with primary responsibility for the day-to-day management and performance of an apartment community, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Property Manager, Community Manager, Business Manager, Community Director, General Manager, Site Manager, or a comparable onsite leadership role. The recipient demonstrates exceptional leadership, operational excellence, team development, resident satisfaction, effective communication, and a commitment to the overall success and reputation of their community. 
• Assistant Manager of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who serves in the primary onsite management support role for an apartment community, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Assistant Property Manager, Assistant Community Manager, Associate Community Manager, or a comparable onsite position that directly supports the community’s lead manager. The recipient demonstrates initiative, operational knowledge, strong resident relations, effective financial and administrative performance, team collaboration, and a meaningful commitment to the overall success of the community. 
• Leasing Consultant of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who delivers an exceptional leasing and customer experience, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Leasing Consultant, Leasing Professional, Leasing Specialist, Leasing Agent, or a comparable onsite leasing role. The recipient demonstrates strong industry knowledge, outstanding leasing performance, effective communication, dependable follow-through, and a genuine commitment to resident satisfaction, retention, occupancy, and the overall success of their community. 

Maintenance and Support Awards

• Maintenance Supervisor of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who leads the maintenance operations and team for one or more apartment communities, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Manager, Service Supervisor, Service Manager, Facilities Manager, Lead Maintenance Technician, or a comparable maintenance leadership role. The recipient demonstrates exceptional leadership, technical expertise, team development, timely problem-solving, and a commitment to property standards, safety, resident satisfaction, and the overall success of their community or communities. 
• Maintenance Technician of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual who provides exceptional maintenance service for one or more apartment communities, regardless of their official job title. Eligible titles may include Maintenance Technician, Service Technician, Maintenance Specialist, Service Specialist, Apartment Maintenance Technician, or a comparable non-supervisory maintenance role. The recipient demonstrates outstanding technical knowledge, quality workmanship, timely problem-solving, reliability, safety, and a commitment to resident satisfaction and a well-maintained living environment. 
• Facilities Support Associate of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual whose work helps maintain a clean, safe, attractive, and welcoming environment at one or more apartment communities. Eligible roles may include housekeeping, groundskeeping, painting, porter services, custodial work, pool attendants, or another essential facilities-support function. The recipient demonstrates exceptional dependability, versatility, attention to detail, service, and a positive commitment to residents, associates, and the overall success of the community. 
• Excellence Beyond the Community Award
  Recognizes an outstanding individual whose work outside the traditional onsite setting contributes significantly to the success of apartment communities, team members, residents, or their multifamily organization. Eligible roles may include accounting, application processing, compliance, marketing, human resources, training, information technology, centralized services, administration, and other home-office or portfolio-level positions.

Emerging Talent and Distinguished Service

• Property Member Rookie of the Year Award
  Recognizes a property member who has been in their current position for less than one year at the time of nomination. The nominee may be new to the multifamily industry or an experienced professional who has recently advanced or transitioned into a position with substantially different responsibilities. Moving to a different company or community in the same or a comparable position does not qualify.  The recipient demonstrates exceptional adaptability, initiative, skill, and dedication while making a meaningful impact on their team, community, or organization and showing strong potential for continued success.
• Property Member Dottie Stinnett Distinguished Service to CKAA Award
  Named in honor of the late Dottie Stinnett, this award recognizes a property member whose exceptional volunteer service has made a meaningful impact on CKAA. The recipient demonstrates extraordinary dedication, leadership, and commitment through active involvement in CKAA programs, initiatives, activities, and events while setting an outstanding example of service within the association.

Supplier Award Category Descriptions

Company and Team Awards

• Supplier Company of the Year Award
  Recognizes a supplier company that demonstrates an exceptional commitment to CKAA and the multifamily housing industry. The recipient actively supports the association through volunteerism, participation, sponsorship, and advocacy for CKAA membership while consistently providing outstanding service to apartment communities. Through its professionalism, customer care, and dedication to the industry, the company sets a strong example for the broader supplier community.
• Supplier Team of the Year Award
  Recognizes a team within a CKAA supplier member company that demonstrates exceptional collaboration, mutual support, and a shared commitment to excellence. Through effective communication, teamwork, and a unified approach to overcoming challenges, the team makes a meaningful contribution to its company, customers, and the multifamily housing industry.

Industry Impact Awards

• Supplier Innovation Award
  Recognizes a CKAA supplier member company, team, or individual who developed or implemented a creative solution that addressed a meaningful challenge for an apartment community or the multifamily housing industry during the past year. The recipient demonstrates innovation, industry knowledge, effective problem-solving, and measurable improvements in areas such as operations, efficiency, safety, cost savings, sustainability, or resident experience.
• Supplier Partnership of the Year Award
  Recognizes a CKAA supplier member company, team, or individual whose collaboration with a property member produced an exceptional result during the past year. The nominated partnership must demonstrate strong communication, responsiveness, shared problem-solving, and a meaningful impact on a specific apartment community, portfolio, project, or resident experience. Nominations should explain the partnership, the challenge or goal addressed, and the results achieved.
• Supplier Education and Industry Advancement Award
  Recognizes a CKAA supplier member company, team, or individual who has strengthened the multifamily housing industry through education, training, mentorship, or the sharing of professional expertise. The recipient demonstrates a commitment to helping property professionals expand their knowledge, improve their performance, and better serve their residents and communities. Sales presentations or product demonstrations alone do not qualify.

Individual Professional Recognition

• Supplier Professional of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual employed by a CKAA supplier member company whose achievements and service have made a meaningful impact during the past year. The recipient demonstrates exceptional professionalism, reliability, customer care, and a commitment to going above and beyond for their company, customers, and the multifamily housing industry.

Emerging Talent and Distinguished Service

• Supplier Rookie of the Year Award
  Recognizes an individual employed by a CKAA supplier member company who has been in their current position for less than one year at the time of nomination.  The recipient demonstrates exceptional adaptability, initiative, dedication, and promise while quickly making a meaningful impact on their company, customers, and the multifamily housing industry.The nominee may be new to the multifamily housing industry or an experienced professional who has recently advanced or transitioned into a position with substantially different responsibilities. Moving to a different company in the same or a comparable position does not qualify. 
• Supplier Member Dottie Stinnett Distinguished Service Award
  Named in honor of the late Dottie Stinnett, this award recognizes an individual employed by a CKAA supplier member company whose exceptional volunteer service has made a meaningful impact on CKAA. The recipient demonstrates extraordinary dedication, leadership, and commitment through active involvement in CKAA programs, initiatives, activities, and events while setting an outstanding example of service within the association.