Incentive Award Programs

Grand Master’s Handbook 2025 – 2026

The Grand Master’s Handbook with complete details of next year Awards Programs, District Meeting Dates, Educational Date and details of Excellency Award.

Grand Master’s Excellence Award 2025-2026

2026The Grand Master’s Lodge of Excellence Award has very high achievement requirements and is the highest award a lodge can receive. Although the qualifications are set high, a lodge can choose those areas in which they currently excel and then look to the challenges that best suit the talents of its of-ficers and members.The award is designed to raise the overall proficiency of a lodge by encouraging it to broaden its ho-rizons and increase its visibility and activity within its community. The Grand Master’s Lodge of Excel-lence Award will be presented during the 227th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky in October 2026 to those lodges that complete fourteen (15) of the nineteen (20) requirements-October 2025 through July 15, 2026.All applications must be signed by the Worshipful Master and certified by the Lodge Secretary with his signature and the seal of the lodge. The applications must be received by the Grand Lodge Office by July 15, 2026.

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Attendance Awards 2025-2026

Obtain the attendance award with the Worshipful Master and 10% of the membershipat a District Meeting. (Honorary members do not count)

(If the Master is unable to attend due to extenuating circumstances, the lodge may apply to the Area Officer or the Grand Master for relief. If the Area Officer and the Grand Master determine that the absence is justifiable, the lodge may then be considered to have met the requirements with a total of 10% of their total membership in attendance.)[more]

2025-2026 Ritualist Award Program
To achieve this award a brother must have proven that he has been a ritualist in Masonry or is a Masonic Ritualist today. [more]

Certification Calculation Worksheet(Excel Format)

Certification Application

A brother must accomplish from the list below to achieve this prestigious recognition. Must be given from memory, “not read”!