Chippewa District
2025 Volunteer Awards Dinner
5pm, Sunday, April 27, 2025

The Carlisle Banquets 
435 E. Butterfield Rd.
Lombard, IL

Come celebrate the volunteers that make Chippewa great!

NO UNIFORMS PLEASE

5pm CASH BAR (Soft Drinks Provided)
6pm Buffet Dinner & Awards

On or Before March 27th
 $50 per person
March 28th through April 20th
$55 per person

Purchase a table of 10 up to April 20th
$450 flat rate

Online registration closes on April 20th.
Walk-in rate is $60 per person

Join us for our fourth “In-Person” Volunteer Awards Dinner, since we became the Chippewa District.  Units are encouraged to attend the dinner to celebrate their awardees.  There will be a cash bar but soft drinks are included.  In addition to the Golden Feather Award, the W.D. Boyce Award and the District Award of Merit will also be presented.  New this year – Units can honor someone with a James E. West Fellowship Award.

Chippewa Volunteer Recognition Award - The Golden Feather

Who will be awarded the Golden Feather from your unit on April 27th?

Chippewa District is pleased to offer the Chippewa Volunteer Recognition Award, the "Golden Feather", to recognize the outstanding adult volunteers, at the unit level, who guide our youth along the Scouting trail. These adults give direction and guidance to our Scouts, as they navigate their way through childhood and become young adults, helping them learn to make moral and ethical decisions throughout their lifetime.  This can be a registered leader, a parent, or anyone who has helped the youth in your unit by volunteering their time.  Each unit may nominate 2 volunteers for the Award.

Golden Feather Online Nomination Form (Deadline 3/15/2025) 

District Award of Merit          

For Scouters who render service of an outstanding nature at the district level.

District Award of Merit Nomination Form(Deadline 3/14/2025) 
Instructions for Nominations (Right Sidebar)
*Send to Jerry Bevignani, District Advancement Chair - GameGuru09@aol.com

William D. Boyce New Unit Organizer Award

For adult leaders who have successfully organized a new unit.  This can be for any Pack, Troop, Crew, or Ship organized after January 1, 2019 that has met the performance guidelines.

William D. Boyce New Unit Organizer Award Nomination Form (Deadline 3/15/2025)
*Send to Adam Greenacre - adam.greenacre@scouting.org

James E. West Fellowship

Is there someone you would like to honor as a James E. West Fellow?  Submit an application, with a donation of at least $1,000, made on behalf of you or your recipient, to the Three Fires Council Endowment fund.  This may be given by a group of Scouters or individual Scouter to honor a fellow Scouter, as a memorial on the death of a Scouter, or to recognize an achievement.  Your fellow will be recognized at the dinner.

James E. West Fellowship Application (Deadline 4/15/2025)
*Send to Adam Greenacre - adam.greenacre@scouting.org

Additional Ways to Say Thank You!

These options are available in the dinner registration. 

Big Timber Bourbon

Big Timber Bourbon was brewed in partnership with Whiskey Acres. By making a new donation of $250 towards the TFC annual giving campaign, you will receive a limited stock bottle of Big Timber Bourbon. Bottles will be available for pickup at the dinner. 

                        Legacy Brick

Do you want to honor a special achievement of a Scouter or adult in your unit? This additional purchase will get a customizable brick to be set in the flaggrounds at Camp Big Timber. Can Purchase either a 4x8 brick for $300 or an 8x8 brick for $400 to help support the development fund.