Nominations for the 20th Annual DeKalb ATHENA Award are now being accepted.

“The DeKalb ATHENA Award recognizes an individual for business or professional accomplishments, for community service and for mentoring others by being a role model, who encourages women to achieve their full leadership potential,” said Jim Allen, the executive director of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce.

Jennifer Groce, executive director of Re:New DeKalb, won the ATHENA award last year and said the recipient of the ATHENA award must be somebody who really loves the community and helps those in need of doing all they can.

Nominees must still be living in the DeKalb area and remain active in work, and both men and women are both eligible for the award.

“The DeKalb community is blessed with a wonderful array of businesswomen and men who continue to give to the community,” Groce said. “There are so many possibilities of those who can be recipients this year.”

Mike Mooney, owner of Mike Mooney Chevrolet Cadillac 204 N. Fourth St., has sponsored the award for the past 19 years.

“The award has no other agenda other than to solely recognize an outstanding member of the community and seeing what these people are doing and the way they are doing it is truly an inspiration in a lot of ways,” Mooney said.

The ATHENA Award recipient will be announced Tuesday Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. at the Hopkins Park Terrace Room, 1403 Sycamore Road. The event is open to the public and tickets are $25.

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