H Foundation seeks nominations for Guiding Light Award
The award recognizes those in the lighting industry who passionately support cancer research.
Do you know someone in the lighting industry who is a passionate advocate of cancer research?
The H Foundation is now welcoming nominations for its Rick Wiedemer Guiding Light Award, which honors both companies and individuals in the lighting community who actively support the foundation’s mission to fund basic science research and find a cure for cancer.
The award will be presented during the foundation’s annual Goombay Bash in Chicago this summer.
Anyone in the lighting industry may nominate an individual or a company for the award, regardless of their involvement specifically with The H Foundation or its Goombay Bash, which will take place July 26, 2025, at the AON Grand Ballroom on Chicago’s Navy Pier.
The nominee must be within the lighting industry, must demonstrate a strong past and ongoing commitment to supporting cancer research and cannot be a past recipient of the award.
Click here to submit a nomination. All 2025 nominations must be submitted by March 28 and will be reviewed by the Rick Wiedemer Guiding Light Award Committee before the recipient is announced in April.
The H Foundation created the Guiding Light Award in 2017. The inaugural award was presented to Generation Lighting, Hinkley, Kichler, Quoizel, Satco and WAC. Subsequent recipients have included Lighting One President Gregg Garofalo, Hubbardton Forge CEO Maria Mullen, former WAC Lighting Co-CEOs Dirk & Shelley Wald, and Satco President Bill Gildin.
In 2022, the award was given posthumously to former Hinkley CEO Rick Wiedemer, for whom the award is now named.
The lighting industry alone is responsible for nearly $5 million of what The H Foundation has raised for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center’s basic science research to date, the foundation said, and many members of the lighting industry serve as volunteers and cheerleaders for the cause.
And through the Goombay Bash and other initiatives, the foundation has raised more than $13 million for basic science cancer research over more than two decades.
The H Foundation received the Hearts award from ART last month for its charitable efforts.
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