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Contest Description
Goal: To identify the best ideas SEIU members have for improving the quality of public services.
SEIU is committed to working with our members, publicly funded employers, and elected officials to improve the quality of public services. We know that SEIU members have an abundance of great ideas for improving public services—ideas that stem from our own first-hand experience of what works well and what does not. When we’re able to run with these ideas, it benefits the public, helps our employers, and improves our jobs. Everybody wins.
By submitting your innovative ideas for improving the quality of public services, you can help to chart a new course for building and maintaining healthy communities.
Prizes: First prize: $5,000; Second prize: $4,000; Third prize: $3,000.
All top winners will be recognized at the SEIU 2008 Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A group of people may submit an entry and share a cash prize. If your idea wins first prize, your local will also be awarded a $20,000 prize it can use to help bring the idea to life.
The contest is open to participants who are members in good standing of SEIU Public Services Division locals as of December 31, 2007 and are not employed by SEIU or its locals. For complete contest description, eligibility requirements and Official Rules, see Everbody Wins Contest Rules.
Deadline for entries: Entries must be submitted via this Web site or postmarked by midnight, April 4, 2008.
The Winning Entries WILL:
- Advance the Core Purpose of SEIU’s Public Services Division: To create a powerful organization that advocates for quality public services and wins for the workers who deliver them.
- Improve the quality of public services, ideally in ways that are measurable.
- Be replicable across geographies and in communities or municipalities of different sizes.
- Be sustainable, both financially and over time.
- Resonate with the public and with community stakeholders.
- Energize SEIU members about implementing the ideas.
- Include a strategy for engaging management, public officials, and community stakeholders
Enter the contest and submit your idea today!