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#ELGLMeagle Award

Honoring the best local government workplaces

About the Meagle Award

The Meagle Award recognizes the local governments that have developed, cultivated, and nurtured the best workplaces that encourage employee creativity, loyalty, and success.

The Meagle Award includes a writing component to share best practices from nominated local governments to build out the ELGL content library on workforce development, employee engagement, human resource management, and more.

And, nominations for the Meagle Award are only accepted from local government staff. Managers and mayors cannot nominate themselves for this award; nominations come from grassroots local government employees that want to recognize their organization for creating a great place to work.

Learn more below, and please fill out your nomination form today!



How do I nominate my local government?

Employees of local governments nominate their organizations for consideration for this award and inclusion on a recognition list.

What's on the application?

We'll ask you for basic information about your local government, and then select the program(s) that are in place in your organization that you're nominating for recognition.

What if the program(s) that are most noteworthy in my organization, aren't on your list?

That's ok! You can write it in. Just be prepared to provide background information and justification why your workplace is the best of the best.

I work in the manager's/mayor's office but I'm not the manager or mayor... can I still nominate my organization?

Yes! The concept behind this approach of asking for nominations from staff, and not the PIC, is to get employees engaged in thinking and recognizing great places to work. It's easy for the boss to say "I've created an awesome workplace," but it's meaningful when employees articulate that sentiment.

Tell me more about this content library you're building from the Meagle Award process...

All nominees will be required to write a blog post (or if appropriate, work with ELGL on a webinar) to describe the workplace programs(s) that are Meagle Award worthy. We believe that it's not enough to just recognize great programs - let's also tell the story about how the program could be replicated in another local government organization.

What's the timeline for the Meagle Award?

  • Nominations are due by August 5.
  • The blog series series will begin in September 2019 and will run on a recurring basis throughout the Fall.

What's in it for my organization?

If your organization is selected for the Meagle Award recognition list, you'll receive a graphic and ELGL.org link to use in your marketing and outreach for your local government.

This can be used to showcase your organization in recruitments, to your community, and to your peers.

In addition, ELGL will showcase the content you create around your nomination areas to further highlight the best practices in your organization.

Lastly, you'll get to say you're an award-winning workplace - a Meagle Award winning workplace! - which is just a delightful way to describe a local government organization.

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