2026 Awards Banquet Nominations - The Best of 2025

Each year, the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce celebrates the individuals, businesses, and organizations that make our community stronger through leadership, service, and dedication. The Annual Awards Banquet is our opportunity to recognize those who go above and beyond to make Fairfield a great place to live, work, and do business.

We invite you to submit nominations for this year’s awards by completing this brief survey. Nominations may be made by Chamber members or community members, and self-nominations are welcome unless otherwise noted. Please provide thoughtful details explaining why your nominee deserves recognition, as this information is used by the selection committee during the review process.

Your participation helps ensure that the outstanding contributions happening throughout our community are recognized and celebrated. Thank you for taking the time to nominate someone who truly makes a difference.

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Recognizing a Jefferson County area individual or business for their contribution to the agricultural sector and/or economy.

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Recognizing a Fairfield business exemplifying the modern definition of best practices while maintaining a low profile in our community.

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Recognizing businesses and organizations for notable internal or external physical improvement to the appearance of their business completed in 2025.

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Recognizing a business or organization for significant contribution to the economic vitality of the Fairfield area through job growth, major physical business expansion or construction and adding to new tax base valuation.

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Recognizing a business owner for their high level of entrepreneurial spirit setting Fairfield apart.

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Recognizing individuals for choosing Fairfield to grow their business and created a lasting impact in the Fairfield Community over the past 20 years.

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Recognizing a manufacturer or distributor demonstrating exemplary customer service and excellence in its industry; considering but not limited to company growth, technological advances, corporate citizenship, green efforts/sustainability and workforce excellence.

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Recognizing a 2025 community project making Fairfield a better place to live, work, and play.

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Recognizing a restaurant or bar demonstrating exemplary customer service and excellence in its industry.

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Recognizing a retail business demonstrating innovation, exemplary customer service, and excellence in its industry.

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Recognizing a business in their first five years of operation making outstanding contributions to the Fairfield Area.

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Recognizing a service business demonstrating exemplary customer service and excellence in its industry.

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Recognizing a local high school student employee demonstrating outstanding reliability, quality of work, initiative, professionalism, interpersonal skills, and unique contributions to the employer.

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Recognizing a business, organization, or project acting as a tourism catalyst for the Fairfield Community.

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Recognizing an individual, 40 years or younger, for their outstanding commitment to the community, professional accomplishments, and volunteerism.

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The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the “Outstanding Citizen Community Service Award” (also known as the “Citizen of the Year” award.)

Nominees are evaluated on the significance of their diverse, voluntary service over many years’ time, contributing to the betterment, growth and/or improvement of the community. Please note, this award recognizes voluntary service, therefore activity related to an individual’s profession is NOT taken into consideration and should not be included in the nomination information

Form can be found here: https://www.fairfieldiowa.com/files/2026_coy_38755.pdf

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Any other award we should give? Any suggestions??