Each year, HASBAT selects a Small Business Advocate of the Year and presents the award at the annual small business awards banquet sponsored by the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

We are now accepting nominations for our 2012 award. Each member company is encouraged to submit a nomination. Nominations should be submitted via email (address provided on nomination form) and must be received by close of business on August 4, 2011.

Download Nomination Form: Click here.

Qualified nominees are local individuals or organizations who have been instrumental in fostering a culture of identifying innovation in small businesses and partnering with those businesses to win government contracts. Support may also be demonstrated by activities and/or undertakings accomplished in advising and advancing business interests for local high tech small businesses.

Criteria for the Small Business Advocate (Individual)

• Nominee must have a minimum of 3 years of service advocating for small businesses in the Huntsville Community

• Actively promotes and/or supports small business organizations

• Supportive of legislation that promotes small business

• Actively involved in pro-active business development efforts to include SB in new Procurements

• Engaged in civic and community activities that promote small business

In order to be eligible for nomination, the primary physical location of the individual or organization must be within the corporate limits of Madison County.

Award Recipients:

2011: State Congressman Phil Williams

2010: Dave Knowles, Who’s Who in Huntsville Technology

2009: David F. Seitz, Associate Director, Office of Small Business Programs, Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command

2008: Pat Phillips, Alabama Procurement Technical Assistance Center

2007: David Brock, NASA Small Business Specialist

Professional of the Year Award: Dale Jobes, Magnolia River

Please join us in congratulating Dale Jobes, Second Vice President, Magnolia River Services, for being selected as the HASBAT Professional of the Year.

Because we are a member of HATS (Huntsville Association of Technical Societies), each year HASBAT selects an individual as our HATS Professional of the Year. To be nominated for this award, the individual's company must 1) be a current participating member of HASBAT, 2) have demonstrated excellence in some professional (technical or managerial) work or activity that is concerned with broad and beneficial technical, scientific, social or economic consequences that has been exemplified in his or her workplace, in the professional organization in which they are participant members of, and/or in volunteer efforts, and 3) have exhibited an extraordinary dedication, creativity or leadership in that work or activity that results in excellent contributions to the technical and economic development of the City of Huntsville and the surrounding areas.

The committees accepts nominees for this award from our membership, reviews the nominations to recommend a finalist to the board of the directors, and the board of directors then approves the candidate as our official Professional of the Year. The committee then submits a nominations packet to HATS.

From the nominations submitted by their member organizations, HATS also selects someone for the Joseph P. Moquin Award. The Moquin Awardee is chosen from among the current year's POY group (nominated by ther respective member organizations) who will stand out as one who has stood above their peers by providing exemplary leadership to the North Alabama technical community. This involvement and leadership shall have been long-standing with commitment and consistency.

Award Recipients:

2011 HASBAT POY: Dale Jobes

2010 HASBAT POY: Bill Whipple, Moquin Award Winner

2009 HASBAT POY: Jan Eiras, Moquin Award Winner

HASBAT 2011 Scholarship Recipients

Each year HASBAT awards three $1,500 scholarships to students from Alabama A&M University, Oakwood College, and UAHuntsville. Please join us in congratulating this year's recipients:

Taliah Buford, Alabama A&M University

Ginelle Nedd, Oakwood University

Gina Hammon, UAHuntsville

Co-Chairs:

Joni Grounds and Bill Whipple

Committee Email:

awards AT hasbat DOT org

Mission Statement:  

Define guidelines for awarding annual scholarships to students at UAHuntsville, Oakwood University, and Alabama A&M; Small Business Advocate Award for Excellence (define guidelines, solicit nominations, organize award presentation)