The Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce has announced that Cynthia Hollowood is the 2024 Joseph Dalton Community Service Award recipient.
This recognition, created by unanimous vote of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors in 2017, is a community service-focused award to honor an individual who has been faithful and loyal to the Saratoga County community for more than 25 years.
Hollowood has served as the Executive Director of Saratoga Sponsor-A-Scholar since 2020. This organization is dedicated to the philosophy that every student showing academic motivation and potential should have the opportunity to finish high school and continue to college.
Prior to this role, Hollowood was General Manager and Partner at the Holiday Inn Saratoga Springs for a total of 38 years.
Hollowood has volunteered countless hours within the Saratoga community over the past four decades, serving on boards and committees of more than a dozen area nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to the Saratoga Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Saratoga Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Saratoga Economic Development Corporation, the Saratoga Hospital Foundation, the City of Saratoga Springs Special Assessment District Committee, Discover Saratoga and the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce.
She is also a Distinguished Alum of Leadership Saratoga, was named Tourism Executive of the Year by the New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association in 2015 and was honored a Woman of Distinction by the New York State Senate in 2016.