GFOA Distinguished Budget Award Criteria

The GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation award is one of the most highly-sought after annual awards by government finance teams across the country. To earn this award, your budget document must meet program criteria and excel as a policy document, financial plan, operations guide, and communication tool. To make sure your budget book meets all of the criteria set by the GFOA, download this checklist and make sure that you’re checking all the boxes as you build!

ClearGov Digital Budget Book is the industry’s first website-based solution that automates most of the budget book creation process using templates and data-driven charts and tables.  The GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award criteria has been built-in to ClearGov’s framework and templates along with an easy-to-follow checklist. Your Digital Budget Book will auto-create key sections and pre-populate them with data to get you started. Simply add your narrative to complete an award-winning budget book.

We’re proud that the team continued to receive GFOA recognition even with the movement to our digital budget book. We’re still going for the GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award every year, and our new digital budget book helps bring more transparency to what we do every day.

Ileana Petrone
Director of Budget and Sustainability, Coral Springs, FL