As part of the Housing America Campaign, NAHRO is holding a poster contest for children associated with affordable housing and community development programs owned or administered by national NAHRO member agencies (like us here at Colorado NAHRO!).
The 2024 Deadline to submit to the Colorado contest is May 1, 2024 (alternatively, posters may be brought to the 2024 Colorado and Mountain Plains NAHRO Annual Conference). If you are planning to send your posters to Colorado NAHRO, please for further instructions.
NEW THIS YEAR! You may submit posters on an 8.5x11" sheet of paper OR a standard poster board size. Please keep in mind that all submissions must be in LANDSCAPE/Horizontal format.
Poster Requirements Posters should reflect the theme of “What Home Means to Me.”
Posters must be 28” wide x 22″ tall or 8.5x11" and have aLANDSCAPE (HORIZONTAL) orientation. Contestants may use marker, crayon, paint, or color pencil. Please consider that posters will need to be packaged, mailed and reproduced when choosing materials/mediums.
Entries must be created by only one person. Entries created by two or more people will not be accepted.
Age Categories Local/state chapter and regional council contests accept submissions in the following age categories:
Elementary: K to 5th grade Middle: 6th to 8th grade High: 9th to 12th grade One regional winner from each age category will be advance to the national competition.
One winning poster from each age category will receive a $100 Visa gift card from Colorado NAHRO and submitted to the Mountain Plains NAHRO to compete against posters from other states. Winners from the regional competition will be sent to national NAHRO where 12 honorees will receive a $100 Visa gift card and 1 grand prize honoree will receive an iPad as well as transportation and lodging for the honoree and their family to be recognized by NAHRO in Washington DC.