2020 Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award Application
Nearly two years after Tim’s untimely passing, we prepare to honor his legacy of fierce and effective rights activism, with a call for nominations for the Second Annual Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award.
Dr. Brian O’Malley, Jay Critchley and Bill Docker and others have continued the work of The Tim Fund, and in particular the creation of the award. The Second Annual award will be presented to a notable recipient this December 10, 2020 at the Barnstable County Human Rights Day Breakfast in Hyannis. This announcement is to outline the process of soliciting nominations of the award recipient, criteria for selection, and the decision-making process.
Deep gratitude goes to all those many people who have been a part of this process thus far.
Criteria for Selection: The award will recognize a Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion, an activist individual or organization with a Cape Cod connection, working effectively to promote Human Rights, as affirmed in the United Nations 1948 “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” These includes: dignity, liberty, equality; spiritual, public and political freedoms of thought, opinion, religion, conscience and peaceful association; cultural rights including the right to healthcare and an adequate standard of living; establishment of these rights and the organizational structures to empower the individual. The Tim Fund also adds the following considerations: environmental rights and LGBTQ rights.
Recipient Recognition: We are honored to have been accepted by the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission, for inclusion with the other two annual awards presented at the Human Rights Day Breakfast. The recipient of the Award will be expected to attend the Breakfast, give a short speech about their work and give additional presentations on their work to others in the year following their award. The annual award recipient will receive a $2,000 Award Grant to further their activism and human rights work.
Selection Committee: The Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award is honored to have the following individuals on the award recipient selection committee as of this date: Marian Roth, Luke Hadley, Hon. Maria Lopez, Rachel White, Jay Critchley, Dr. Brian O’Malley, Bill Docker and Rev. Kate Wilkinson. The Honorable Barney Frank has generously offered to act as an Advisor.
Committee members will be asked to review the Application/Nomination Essays (250 words each) from those nominated or who self-apply, and to provide the Selection Committee with short feedback notes for the committee on each applicant/nominee.
Applicants and nominees will be ranked by each member of the committee. The applicants/nominees in the top 20% or so of each committee member’s list will be considered and discussed. Committee members’ notes will then be taken into consideration for the final decision of the award recipient. The final decision is to be made consentually.
Selection Committee members also can nominate an individual or organization with the understanding the committee member making their nomination will be asked for their input, but unable to make a final determination in the matter.
Those nominated in any given year, but not selected in that year, will be considered for the next annual Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award along with that year’s nominees.
In this inaugural year, the deadline for nomination and applications will be Friday, October 16, 2020. Application requirements are below.
Nominees and Applicants are asked to fill out an application form, either online at www.thetimfund.org or to send it to “The Tim Fund, c/o The Provincetown Community Compact, PO Box 819, Provincetown, MA 02657.” The Provincetown Community Compact is the acting fiscal sponsor for the Tim Fund.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Applicant name:
Organizational Affiliation (if applicable):
Contact information
Email address:
Telephone number:
Mailing Address:
Website: (if applicable)
Name of person nominating (if applicable):
Organization, Title, Contact Information
Nomination/Application ESSAY
1. Up to 250 words sent in digital MSWord form as attachment; no PDFs, please.
2. Please include the speaking opportunities you might have to highlight your human rights work to audiences in the year to come.
All nominations and/or applications must be postmarked or received by the Selection Committee no later than October 16, 2020.
Nearly two years after Tim’s untimely passing, we prepare to honor his legacy of fierce and effective rights activism, with a call for nominations for the Second Annual Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award.
Dr. Brian O’Malley, Jay Critchley and Bill Docker and others have continued the work of The Tim Fund, and in particular the creation of the award. The Second Annual award will be presented to a notable recipient this December 10, 2020 at the Barnstable County Human Rights Day Breakfast in Hyannis. This announcement is to outline the process of soliciting nominations of the award recipient, criteria for selection, and the decision-making process.
Deep gratitude goes to all those many people who have been a part of this process thus far.
Criteria for Selection: The award will recognize a Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion, an activist individual or organization with a Cape Cod connection, working effectively to promote Human Rights, as affirmed in the United Nations 1948 “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” These includes: dignity, liberty, equality; spiritual, public and political freedoms of thought, opinion, religion, conscience and peaceful association; cultural rights including the right to healthcare and an adequate standard of living; establishment of these rights and the organizational structures to empower the individual. The Tim Fund also adds the following considerations: environmental rights and LGBTQ rights.
Recipient Recognition: We are honored to have been accepted by the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission, for inclusion with the other two annual awards presented at the Human Rights Day Breakfast. The recipient of the Award will be expected to attend the Breakfast, give a short speech about their work and give additional presentations on their work to others in the year following their award. The annual award recipient will receive a $2,000 Award Grant to further their activism and human rights work.
Selection Committee: The Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award is honored to have the following individuals on the award recipient selection committee as of this date: Marian Roth, Luke Hadley, Hon. Maria Lopez, Rachel White, Jay Critchley, Dr. Brian O’Malley, Bill Docker and Rev. Kate Wilkinson. The Honorable Barney Frank has generously offered to act as an Advisor.
Committee members will be asked to review the Application/Nomination Essays (250 words each) from those nominated or who self-apply, and to provide the Selection Committee with short feedback notes for the committee on each applicant/nominee.
Applicants and nominees will be ranked by each member of the committee. The applicants/nominees in the top 20% or so of each committee member’s list will be considered and discussed. Committee members’ notes will then be taken into consideration for the final decision of the award recipient. The final decision is to be made consentually.
Selection Committee members also can nominate an individual or organization with the understanding the committee member making their nomination will be asked for their input, but unable to make a final determination in the matter.
Those nominated in any given year, but not selected in that year, will be considered for the next annual Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Award along with that year’s nominees.
In this inaugural year, the deadline for nomination and applications will be Friday, October 16, 2020. Application requirements are below.
Nominees and Applicants are asked to fill out an application form, either online at www.thetimfund.org or to send it to “The Tim Fund, c/o The Provincetown Community Compact, PO Box 819, Provincetown, MA 02657.” The Provincetown Community Compact is the acting fiscal sponsor for the Tim Fund.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Applicant name:
Organizational Affiliation (if applicable):
Contact information
Email address:
Telephone number:
Mailing Address:
Website: (if applicable)
Name of person nominating (if applicable):
Organization, Title, Contact Information
Nomination/Application ESSAY
1. Up to 250 words sent in digital MSWord form as attachment; no PDFs, please.
2. Please include the speaking opportunities you might have to highlight your human rights work to audiences in the year to come.
All nominations and/or applications must be postmarked or received by the Selection Committee no later than October 16, 2020.