Star Council Award

2025 – 2026 Fraternal Year

The Star Council Award recognizes outstanding achievement in membership, insurance and programming. In order to achieve the Star Council Award, a council must earn the Father McGivney, Founders’, and Columbian Awards. Additionally, the council must submit both the Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity (#1728), Report of Officers Chosen for the Term (#185), and Service Program Personnel Report (#365). In the United States and Canada councils must also be fully compliant with applicable safe environment requirements.

Prior to the end of the fraternal year on June 30, make sure that your council achieves the requirements to qualify for your awards.To view your quota and/or progress towards earning the Star Council Award, please log on to Officers Online regularly.

Columbian Award

This award recognizes excellence in your council’s programming and charitable outreach. To earn this award your council must conduct and report programs in each of the four program categories (Faith, Family, Community, and Life) for a total of 16 program credits, with four in each category. A completed Columbian Award Application (#SP-7) must be received by the Supreme Council office by June 30 in order to earn this award.

There are no required programs.

Featured Programs

The Supreme Council has designated certain programs as featured programs in each of the program categories. When your council conducts a featured program and satisfies the associated requirements it will receive two credits towards that program category on their Columbian Award Application (#SP-7). The featured programs for each category are listed below.

Faith

Family

Community

Life

Minimum Requirements

Father McGivney Award

This award recognizes excellence in your council’s membership growth. To earn this award your council must meet or exceed its yearly membership quota. The quota is 6% increase in the council’s membership as of July 1 (intake only, minimum of five and maximum of fifteen). Your specific council quota can be found under the Membership tab in Officers Online. There is no application for the Father McGivney Award. Eligibility is automatically determined by the Supreme Council.

Councils that attain Star Council status and achieve 200 percent of their gain goal will receive the Double Star Council Award. Councils that achieve 300 percent of their gain goal will receive the Triple Star Council Award.

All membership transactions must be received, processed, recorded, and released at the Supreme Council office by June 30.

Founders’ Award

The Founders’ Award recognizes excellence in the promotion of our insurance and fraternal benefits. All councils must host/promote at least two* Fraternal Benefit Events during the fraternal year. (College and Military Councils only need to host/promote one FBE.) The required sum total attendance of members, or member eligible men, at these events must equal or exceed:

10 for councils with 99 or fewer members
14 for councils with 100 or more members

These events are coordinated in conjunction with your local field agent. For the council to receive credit, the grand knight must submit the new online form #11077 within seven days of the seminar.

*If the GK and DGK meet individually with their agent for a personal review of fraternal benefits available to them, these two meetings will count for one of the two required FBEs (College and Military Councils excepted).

Form #11077

Star Awards