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1 November 2009 Kicks Off PMI Award Season

Newtown Square, Pa., 3 November 2009 — On the heels of a successful PMI^® Global Congress 2009—North America, commemorating the organization’s 40^th anniversary, the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management professional membership organization, has opened the call for nominations for its Professional Awards Program. Through this program, PMI recognizes outstanding achievements in project management, including those of project professionals, scholars, organizations and their successful and innovative projects and products, as well as continuing professional education providers and authors.

While perhaps best known for the coveted Project of the Year Award, PMI Professional Awards include:

• PMI Distinguished Project Award
• PMI Community Advancement Through Project Management Award
• PMI Distinguished Contribution Award
• PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award
• PMI Fellow Award
• PMI Linn Stuckenbruck Person of the Year Award 
• PMI Research Achievement Award 
• PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award
• PMI Continuing Professional Education Provider of the Year Award
• PMI Continuing Professional Education Product of the Year Award
  PMI Project Management Journal^® Paper of the Year Award

Nominations for the Project of the Year Award are due by 1 March 2010, while most other nominations are due on 26 April 2010. More information and instructions for nominations and each award nomination deadline can be found here:  http://www.pmi.org/AboutUs/Pages/Our-Professional-Awards.aspx.

About Project Management Institute (PMI)
The world’s leading project management professional membership organization, PMI shares knowledge with nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in over 185 countries. Since 1969, PMI has impacted more than one million practitioners, businesses, governments, students and training organizations. Today, PMI’s products and services range from world-class standards for project, program and portfolio management to five professional credentials, including the gold standard Project Management Professional (PMP)^®. PMI’s exclusive Global Corporate Council and European Corporate Networking Group engage large multinationals and government organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The only project management association with an established academic research program, PMI has invested more than US$14 million in support of dozens of research projects since 1997. Learn more at pmi.org.