HCMA Volunteer GEM Awards Initiative
Recognizing our volunteers who help the HCMA educate, support and spread awareness to our HCM community
Start logging your volunteer hours today!
Click here for instructions on how to log your hours
or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at julie@4hcm.org.
The HCMA has created the Volunteer GEM Awards (VGA) program to help us formally recognize each of our volunteers individually for their role in helping the HCMA educate, support and spread awareness to our HCM community.
The VGA program will encourage our volunteers to track the hours they dedicate throughout the year so we can recognize them at the end of each year with fun prizes and other forms of appreciation.
GEM award levels are determined by the amount of hours contributed to the HCMA.
Prizes will be awarded for volunteer hours accumulated between September 1st and August 31st each year, and can include social media frames, honorable mention in our newsletter, on our website or in social media, a thank you voucher for a gift of your choice from our HCMA online store (the value of this voucher goes up with each GEM Award level) and more!
| GEM Category | Hours |
|---|---|
| Red | 80+ Hours |
| Emerald | 40-79 Hours |
| Gold | 20-39 Hours |
| Silver | 10-19 Hours |
| Bronze | 5-9 Hours |
RECOGNITION PRIZES
Bronze GEM level: 5 volunteer hours
- HCMA frame for social media
- Recognition/thank you email
- Honorable mention in HCMA's Pulse Newsletter
Silver GEM level: 10 volunteer hours
- Silver status HCMA frame for social media
- $10 voucher for our HCMA online store
- Recognition/thank you letter
- Honorable mention in HCMA's Pulse Newsletter
Gold GEM level: 20 volunteer hours
- Gold status HCMA frame for social media
- $20 voucher for our HCMA online store
- Recognition/thank you letter
- Recognition on our website
- Honorable mention in HCMA's Pulse Newsletter (with link to our website with description of volunteer activity honored & volunteer's picture)
Emerald GEM level: 40 volunteer hours
- Emerald status HCMA frame for social media
- $50 voucher for our HCMA online store
- Recognition/thank you letter
- Recognition on our website
- Honorable mention in HCMA's Pulse Newsletter (with link to our website with description of volunteer activity honored & volunteer's picture)
- One scholarship membership donated in your name
Ruby GEM level: 80+ volunteer hours
- BIG RED HEART status HCMA frame for social media
- $75 voucher for our HCMA online store
- Recognition/thank you letter
- Recognition on our website
- Honorable mention in HCMA's Pulse Newsletter (with link to our website with description of volunteer activity honored & volunteer's picture)
- One scholarship membership donated in your name
- Tales from the Heart podcast guest
- Article in HCMA's "Up Beat" magazine
- Volunteers with 80-119 hours will receive free entry to our HCMA Annual Meeting and entry for you and a guest to the "Unmask the Great Masquerader" & VGA Awards ball.
- Volunteers with 120+ hours will receive free entry to our HCMA Annual Meeting and entry for you and a guest to the "Unmask the Great Masquerader" & VGA Awards ball including hotel accommodations and (if available) air travel.
