The Awards

Award Categories

Each award honors a distinct dimension of excellence within the Total Thrifting Sistas community. These honors recognize the women who show up, stand out, inspire others, and make a meaningful contribution to our community.

The Sista of Excellence Award

The highest honor of the evening, the Sista of Excellence Award recognizes a woman who embodies the spirit and values of the Sistas in Excellence Awards. Through her character, leadership, dedication, contributions, and commitment to excellence, she represents the standard of what it means to be a Sista in Excellence.

Selection Criteria

Entrepreneurship Award

Celebrating the Sista who has demonstrated exceptional entrepreneurial vision, growth, innovation, and determination. This award honors a woman who has transformed her vision into a growing enterprise while demonstrating the courage, creativity, and perseverance that define entrepreneurship.

Selection Criteria

Demonstrated business growth, innovation, professionalism, entrepreneurial initiative, consistency, and a commitment to continued development.

Leadership Award

Recognizing the Sista who demonstrates exceptional leadership through her actions, encouragement, and positive influence. She leads by example, inspires others, and contributes to the growth, strength, and unity of the Total Thrifting Sistas community.

Selection Criteria

Demonstrated leadership, positive influence, encouragement of others, dependability, integrity, and a consistent commitment to strengthening the community.

Growth Award

Honoring the journey as well as the achievement. The Growth Award recognizes a Sista who has demonstrated remarkable progress, development, and perseverance throughout the year. Through dedication, a willingness to learn, and determination to overcome challenges, she continues to evolve, strengthen her abilities, and reach new levels of excellence.

Selection Criteria

Demonstrated growth in skills, confidence, professionalism, consistency, business development, or community involvement throughout the award year.

Professionalism Award

Recognizing the Sista who consistently demonstrates excellence in professionalism. Through effective communication, dependability, integrity, customer service, and the way she represents herself and her business, she exemplifies the high standards of the Total Thrifting Sistas community.

Selection Criteria

Consistent professionalism, effective communication, dependability, integrity, positive customer relations, business conduct, and professional presentation.

Community Impact Award

Honoring the Sista whose contributions have made a meaningful and positive impact within the Total Thrifting Sistas community. Through encouragement, support, generosity, service, and a willingness to uplift others, she demonstrates the true spirit of community and sisterhood.

Selection Criteria

Demonstrated service to the community, support and encouragement of fellow Sistas, generosity of time or knowledge, positive involvement, and a consistent commitment to uplifting others.

Sisterhood Award

Celebrating the Sista who embodies the true spirit of sisterhood. She consistently supports, encourages, celebrates, and uplifts her fellow Sistas while demonstrating kindness, loyalty, respect, and genuine care for others. Through her actions, she helps create an environment where every Sista feels valued, respected, and supported.

Selection Criteria

Consistent demonstration of sisterhood through encouragement, support, respect, loyalty, positivity, celebration of others, and genuine care for fellow members of the Total Thrifting Sistas community.

Nominations Open Soon

The nomination process for the inaugural Sistas in Excellence Awards will open ahead of the March 21, 2027 ceremony. Stay connected with the Total Thrifting Sistas community for announcements.

Check Eligibility Requirements