By Brooke Schipporeit, NLIHC Senior Director, Field Strategy & Innovation
NLIHC is accepting nominations for the 2026 Annual Organizing Awards. These awards recognize two organizations’ outstanding achievements in statewide, regional, citywide, neighborhood, or resident organizing throughout the last year. NLIHC will recognize accomplishments that further NLIHC’s mission of achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice. NLIHC will present the Organizing Awards at the Annual Policy Forum March 10-13, 2026, at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Special consideration will be given to nominations that incorporate tenant- or resident-centered organizing and leadership and that prioritizes racial equity.
Nominations can be submitted here and are due by 5:00 pm ET on Monday, January 12, 2026.
An Organizing Awards Committee composed of NLIHC board members and previous award winners will determine the 2026 honorees. NLIHC will provide two representatives of each honored organization complimentary Forum registrations and lodging for the 2026 Policy Forum.
Nominated organizations must be current NLIHC members. Organizations may self-nominate. NLIHC board members and Award Committee members may not nominate an organization with which they are employed or affiliated.
For questions or to check an organization’s membership status, please reach out to the NLIHC Field Team at [email protected].
Read about previous award winners here.