Time is running out to nominate candidates for the seventh annual Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation's "CLvFFie" (pronounced "Cliffy") awards.

The annual event honors individuals and groups from the region in several categories.

Members of the community can submit names of worthy candidates to the Future Foundation office by June 30, the final deadline.

Categories include The Arts, Business/Professional, Community Service, Education, Health, Public Safety, Youth Sports and Youth Leadership will be invited to attend the awards.

Finalists in all categories will be invited to attend the awards event in November.

Fran Brough, executive director of the foundation said a new category has been added to the roster this year. The Youth Leadership will honor students who have been instrumental in school projects or have had a positive influence on youth and the community, she said.

Brough said the foundation's awards are an opportunity to show how much community leaders are appreciated in the community.

Finalists will be notified in late September, Brough said. One person in each category will be selected by secret ballot and revealed at the Nov. 4 event at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in the Janet and Ray Scherr Forum Theatre.

The Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation is an apolitical, nonprofit "think tank" organization dedicated to the study of issues important to the region generally bounded by the Conejo Grade to the Calabasas Grade along the U.S. 101 corridor.

The foundation sponsors several events during the year, from its annual Youth Congress for high school students and colloquia including "Financing Our Region's Future" and "A Day in Your Life in 2016," to a Senior Congress program.

In the past, the senior program has addressed financial planning, healthy aging and other topics of interest to the senior set.

Nomination applications are available through the foundation and can be printed from its website, www.clvff.org.