2023 Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award (DSA) is the international credit union system’s highest honor, first presented by World Council in 1986 to recognize member organizations and individuals for their outstanding contributions to credit union development outside their home country. Nominations for the 2023 Distinguished Service Award are now open. Click here to fill out a nomination form.
2023 Nomination Categories
World Council member organizations may submit nominations in the following categories:
DSA Individual: Individuals who have provided exemplary service to the international credit union movement and have positively influenced credit union development outside their home country qualify for the individual category.
DSA Institutional: Organizations that have provided financial and technical assistance over an extended period of time to develop international credit union movements and their service infrastructure may be nominated in the institutional category.
2023 Nomination Criteria
The World Council awards committee reviews all nominations and selects the DSA recipients. Only World Council member organizations may make DSA nominations. Individuals nominated for the award should demonstrate some or all of the following:
- Personal history of commitment to international credit union development outside the nominee’s home country.
- A record of technical service to the development of other credit union movements beyond their own national boundaries.
- Ongoing institutional development by playing a leading role in advancing World Council.
- Ability to locate and mobilize resources needed by World Council and its affiliates to establish strong credit union movements wherever they are sought.
Institutions nominated for the DSA must meet the following qualifications:
- Ongoing commitment to international credit union development for more than three years.
- Technical assistance provided beyond the nominee’s borders has led to measurable results within the region receiving it and has an ongoing history following the end of the period of assistance.
- The range of programs funded has led to concrete changes and development as anticipated beyond their borders.
Previously nominated individuals or institutions that have not been selected may resubmit their candidature for consideration with updated documentation.
Nomination Checklist
- Completed nomination form
- Board resolution from the nominating organization approving the nomination
- If nominated by an affiliate of a World Council member organization, the affiliate must also present an endorsement by its member organization
- For individuals, a resume
- For individuals, a color photograph of the nominee (professional quality headshot)
- For institutions, a color logo (preferably in an .eps file format)
- 15–20 photos featuring the nominee’s international work
Submission Deadline
To nominate a candidate, please submit the items listed above in the nomination checklist.
DSA nominations are due Friday, March 10, 2023.
Notifications
World Council will notify nominees by May 1, 2023, whether they have been selected as winners. World Council will provide the DSA recipient with a complimentary 2023 conference registration.
Award Presentation
World Council will present DSA winners with their award during the 2023 World Credit Union Conference in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada), July 23-26.
2022 Winner
World Council presented the 2022 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to Marshall Boutwell, President and CEO, Peach State Federal Credit Union (USA). He was nominated by the Association of British Credit Unions Limited (ABCUL) for his long history of engagement with credit unions in Poland and Great Britain. Boutwell was one of the original participants in the Georgia-Poland Partnership, which links credit union executives from the U.S. State of Georgia with their counterparts in Polish credit unions. Since 2016, Boutwell has also supported two different British credit unions in their development journey—offering guidance, expertise, access to his team, exchange visits and direct financial contributions to support the ABCUL Credit Unions Futures program (an immersion program to develop young leaders).
Past Winners
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2021 DSA Winner
- Cameron Dickey - USA
2020 DSA Winner- Indiana Credit Union League - USA
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2019 DSA Winners
- Sylvester Kadzola - Malawi
- Sistema OCB - Brazil
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2018 DSA Winner
- Adam Jedlinski (posthumous) - Poland
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2017 DSA Winners
- Dean Mahon (posthumous) - USA
- Grzegorz Bierecki - Poland
- Ukrainian National Credit Union Association - USA
- Global Women's Leadership Network - USA
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2016 DSA Winners
- Bill Cheney - USA
- Ron Hance - USA
- Virginia-Estonia International Partnership - USA-Estonia
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2015 DSA Winners
- Dick Ensweiler - USA
- Scott Kennedy - Canada
- Roberto Rodrigues - Brazil
- Aloun Ndombet-Assamba - Jamaica
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2014 DSA Winners
- Rob Nicholls - Australia
- Michael Koisen - Papua New Guinea
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2013 DSA Winners
- Pete Crear - USA
- Melvin Edwards - St. Kitts & Nevis
- Pat Fay - Ireland
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2012 DSA Winner
- Barry Jolette - USA
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2011 DSA Winner- Jim McMahon - Ireland
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2010 DSA Winners
- Harriet May - USA
- Lech Kaczyński - Poland
- Credit Union Executives Society - USA
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2009 DSA Winners
- David Chatfield - USA
- Wayne Nygren - Canada
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2008 DSA Winners
- Chris Baker - USA
- Karen Schwartz - USA
- Credit Union Foundation of Australia
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2007 DSA Winners
- L.R. Bobby McVeigh - Canada
- Foundation for Polish Credit Unions - Poland
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2006 DSA Winner
- John Hume - Ireland
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2005 DSA Winners
- Gerry Foley - Ireland
- Roman Catholic Church - Vatican City
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2003 DSA Winners
- Henry Cruz - USA
- Joseph Cugini - USA
- Dennis Cutter - USA
- John Nicholson - Canada
- Alan Parry - Australia
- Reverend James Oswald Thorbourne - Jamaica
- Herb Wegner (posthumous) - USA
- U.S. Peace Corps - USA
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2000 DSA Winners
- Angel Castro - Panama
- Al Charbonneau - Canada & USA
- Rose Dorman - Great Britain
- Renford Douglas - Jamaica
- Michael Sang-Ho Lee - Korea
- Tod Manrell - Canada
- Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch - Germany
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen - Germany
- Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins - Canada
- Edward A. Filene - USA
- Roy Frederick Bergengren - USA
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1997 DSA Winners
- Everard Dean (posthumous) - Trinidad and Tobago
- Augustine Kang - Asia
- Augustine "Gus" Murray (posthumous) - Ireland
- Joe Perkowski - USA
- O.W.A. Baron von Verschuer - Netherlands
- Albert E. Williams (posthumous) - USA
- Canadian Co-operative Association - Canada
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1994 DSA Winners
- Florencio Eguía Villaseñor - México
- Henry William (Bill) Howe - Australia
- William A. Atkins - USA
- Richard M. Heins, Ph.D. - USA
- Alex Gracie - Canada
- Robert L. Wermuth - USA
- ILCU International Development Foundation, Ltd. - Ireland
- Credit Union Foundation - USA
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1991 DSA Winners
- Armando Terán - Panamá
- Colin Smith (posthumous) - New Zealand
- R.C. Robertson - USA
- R.C. Morgan (posthumous) - USA
- Paul Hebert - USA
- Jack Dublin - USA
- United States Agency for International Development
- Canadian International Development Agency
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1988 DSA Winners
- Bartholomew Quainoo - Ghana
- Kenneth Miller - Australia
- Robert Ingram - Canada
- Lorrell S. Bruce - Jamaica
- Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Federal Republic of Germany
- CUNA Mutual Insurance Group - USA
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1986 DSA Winners
- A. A. Bailey - Jamaica & USA
- Marion Ganey - USA & Fiji
- A. Rod Glen - Canada
- MISEREOR - Federal Republic of Germany
- Coady International Institute - Canada