Preferred Award Vendor

• Annual Report - This category recognizes outstanding annual reports for shareholders and other key constituents. Include 3 copies of your annual report along with your entry form. (Synopsis is not needed for this category.)
• Blog - Recognizing an outstanding, influential business-related weblog or online journal written by a representative of the organization with the goal of espousing the brand or a certain message and written with flair and personality.
• Cause Branding Campaign - This category recognizes a particular campaign in which the corporation’s brand is aligned with a cause, resulting in a nonprofit-corporate partnership that benefits the cause and raises awareness among consumers and other stakeholders. Entrants must show tangible results of campaign and year-over-year strategies to improve the cause branding campaign if this is an ongoing program.
• Comeback Campaign - Recognizes a campaign that successfully counters prior negative reputation as a corporate citizen.
  
• Community Affairs - This category encompasses a wide variety of corporate citizenship efforts, from prominent support for local causes to outstanding partnerships with national and international cause-related organizations. Include a synopsis of the initiative with the entry form along with information on any pertinent partnerships.
• Corporate-Community Partnership - This category comprises those campaigns whose primary focus is forming/promoting a partnership for a social or community cause, but which may also include promotion of your product and/or services and/or company and the advancement of your reputation as a corporate citizen.
• CSR on a Shoestring - Recognizes success of CSR efforts while working with limited funds/budget, whether it's for a single campaign or for ongoing programs. "Shoestring" is subjective, so the emphasis should be on how more was done with less. 
• Diversity Communications - The winning communications initiative in this category will reflect an organization’s commitment to racial, ethnic, religious and gender diversity.
• Employee Relations - This category recognizes internal communications efforts and honors those organizations that are communicating to employees CR commitments and engaging them in helping to create positive change on important social and environmental issues.
• Employee Volunteer Program - This category recognizes outstanding communications and volunteer efforts of a company to support a social or community cause.
• Environmental Stewardship - This category recognizes a communications strategy with your organization’s environmental efforts as its focus. Along with your entry form, provide an explanation of your company’s environmental practices as well as a synopsis of the campaign or ongoing communications initiative.
• Event: CSR/Green Focus - A live event that succeeds at both promoting a particular CSR/green campaign and enhancing the reputation of the sponsor organization. The event should be creative in its conception and execution, and should weave the particular cause into its structure.
• Green PR Campaign - This category recognizes a communications strategy with your organization’s "Go Green" efforts as its focus. Along with your entry form, provide an explanation of your company’s green practices as well as a synopsis of the campaign or ongoing communications initiatives.
• Human Rights/Social Justice Communications - The winner in this category will have effectively communicated to its various stakeholders worldwide the social actions it has taken—whether proactively or reactively—to improve human rights and/or advance social justice in the geographic areas where it conducts business.
• Media Relations - The winner in this category will have demonstrated outstanding media relations strategies resulting in positive coverage for a CSR program/campaign. Entrants must show measurable results from its media efforts and include samples of coverage that demonstrates consistent messaging and PR’s role in educating the media about the CSR program.
• Nonprofit/Corporate Partnership - This category comprises corporations whose primary focus is forming/promoting/leveraging a partnership with a nonprofit, but which may also include promotion of your product and/or services and/or company and the advancement of your reputation as a corporate citizen.
• Philanthropy Communications - Recognizing an organization with a successful charitable giving program(s) in which the communications of these efforts has improved the image and standing of the organization in the markets it serves.
• Product Design/Redesign - Entries in this category should focus on the PR efforts surrounding the a new product design or redesign of an existing product or service, whether in the consumer or business-to-business arena.
• Renewable Energy Campaign -  An initiative focused on promoting the notion that renewable energy should be the main source of energy in our nation's future. Results of campaign should show that the needle has been moved in public's understanding of and enthusiasm for renewable energy.
  
• Social Media Campaign - These are campaigns that connect people and allow them to be integrated into a product or company. Social media campaigns can include: Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation and voice over IP.
• Stakeholder Engagement - The winner in this category will have demonstrated outstanding success in engaging its various stakeholders in the CSR program or campaign. The CSR program will have demonstrated that it heeded the needs of its stakeholders, be it employees, local citizens, investors, etc.
• Start-Up Campaign - Recognizes outstanding first-time CSR/green campaign for a company. This "first splash" category is confined to organizations that have made their first entry into the green space.
  
• Sustainability/CSR Report - This category recognizes outstanding CSR-and-sustainability reports for shareholders and other key constituents. Include 3 copies of your Corporate Social Responsibility Report along with your entry form. (Synopsis is not needed for this category.)
• Video Program - Creative use of video to advance a CSR/green campaign. Can be a stand-alone video campaign, or part of a larger effort, and should demonstrate high audience engagement. 
• Workplace Innovation - Recognizing a campaign or ongoing efforts within the organization which furthers achievement of the organization's CSR goals. 


Overall Leader in CSR Practices:

• Corporation with less than 1, 000 employees
• Corporation with between 1,000 and 10,000 employees
• Corporation with between 10,000 and 25,000 employees
• Corporation with more than 25,000 employees
• Nonprofit Organization
• PR Firm

CSR Executive of the Year:

• CEO
• COO
• Human Resources
• Public Relations
• Marketing
• Community Relations
• CSR Executive
• Other: If there’s someone in your organization leading the sustainability/green charge and does not fit into the categories above, please enter them in this category.