Here is a list of the previous 25 awardees.


And this is a conversation among several previous awardees about how they approached their applications and identified their advocates.


However, please take note of the many different ways that leadership, service, and support are reflected among this cohort. If you are to define for yourself what your service and support means to your community, you may not find an obvious model for you among this cohort. 


Likewise, artistic and cultural practice vary widely among this group, and you may not find an obvious model among this cohort that reflects your own artistic and cultural practices. 


BANF reviewers are more interested in learning from applicants themselves about their artistic and cultural practices, and their description of community service and support, than they are in matching applicants to prior award recipients.