The Modern Budgeteer Award

Why Participate

Your team works hard; it’s time to get the recognition you deserve:

• A meaningful way to recognize your team’s accomplishments (across the ClearGov customer community)
• Commemorative plaque recognizing your achievement
• Opportunity to share practices and strategies that benefit other communities
• Bragging rights as a Modern Budgeteer
• Featured across ClearGov channels (newsletter, social, etc.)

How nominations are evaluated

Winners will be selected based on the following criteria

1. Efficiency in your budget success

How effectively ClearGov’s tools or workflows addressed your specific budgeting challenges, such as fewer spreadsheets and emails, clearer handoffs, shorter cycles, and reduced rework.

2. Impact on people and process

Improvements for staff, leaders, and your community, including collaboration across departments, transparency and accessibility for internal and public-facing audiences, and engagement with boards and residents.

3. Outcomes

Demonstrated results for your budget team, for example, hours or days saved, error reduction, cost savings, faster approvals, higher engagement, or awards. (Tip: Entries with clear, quantifiable metrics get priority consideration.)

Success Story Requirements

Part of the award nomination process will be submitting a success story. Your story should show how your team leverages ClearGov to overcome challenges in budgeting, transparency, or community engagement. Recommended length: 2–4 pages (feel free to go longer if needed).

You should include:

• Before: The challenge or goal your team set out to address
• Solution (with ClearGov): Features/workflow used (note any creative approaches)
• After: Specific outcomes your team has achieved or is driving, with supporting metrics where possible.