I really enjoy seeing deserving individuals who often go unnoticed receive recognition. In many organizations, one of the biggest challenges with which awards committees contend is narrowing the field of nominees to the top two or three candidates. In fact, we have the opposite problem. In some cases, the awards committees have actually had to actively solicit submissions because so few voluntary submissions were received.
Nobody ends up nominating the person.
The message here is clear. If you know of a deserving person, make yourself a committee of one and nominate the person. We'd rather have multiple nominations for worthy individuals than none. Some Members are concerned that perhaps the applications process may be difficult, time consuming or complicated. In fact, nominating someone is often as simple as writing a letter of nomination and sending information about the nominee.