The Social Impact Awards honor communicators who use their platforms for the betterment of their communities—as well as the global community at large—and the campaigns, initiatives, professionals, teams, rising stars, and lifetime pioneers that are helping to usher in a diverse, equitable future and redefine organizations’ role in the fight for global change.
If your team executed a CSR or DEI campaign that had a positive impact on the community you serve, we want to hear about it!
Initial Entry: $425
Additional Entries: $275
Late Fee: $199*
*Added to all entries submitted after October 21
Initial Entry: $249
Additional Entries: $199
Late Fee: $50*
*Added to all entries submitted after October 21
If you are submitting a secondary entry of the same campaign into any additional categories, they qualify for a discount. A late fee of will be applied to entries submitted between October 21 and 28. Payment in full must accompany the entry. Entry fees are not refundable.
ENTRY DEADLINE
October 21, 2022
LATE DEADLINE
October 28, 2022
All entries must be submitted by October 28, 2022. Finalists will be announced in 2023.
All campaigns entered will be required to submit a synopsis describing campaign content including all of the following areas:*
What was the goal of the campaign?
What metrics set the stage for the work your campaign sought out to do?
What was the thinking and the strategic approach behind your work?
What actions did your campaign take or how was your campaign implemented?
How was success measured for this campaign? What metrics show that this campaign performed well and met its goals?
Supporting Materials can include anything that best represents the success of your work. Examples include:
Nominees for individual and team/agency awards will be required to submit the following:*
Outline the reason why the nominee or team should be named a finalist.
Please provide some details of the nominee's role in the organization. Please include who the nominee reports to. How do they implement CSR or DEI in their work?
How has this person or team impacted their community? What metrics show their impact? How has this person shown dedication toward CSR or DEI?
Supporting Materials can include anything that best represents the success of your work. Examples include:
*NOTE: Each section of the application has a 300 word limit
The Social Impact Awards are open to all individuals and teams worldwide at for-profit and non-profit organizations including corporations, PR agencies, public affairs and IR agencies, publicity firms, associations, government, and NGO teams, and sole practitioners.
We evaluate your entry based on creativity, innovation, sound planning implementation, results as well as proven impact on the communities targeted. Judges will evaluate campaigns on the innovativeness of execution and idea as well as the impressiveness of the results. For Teams, Individuals and Agencies, judges will be looking for an X-factor and the noteworthiness of their accomplishments and background (both professional and extracurricular).
How has this person or team impacted their community? What metrics show their impact? How has this person shown dedication toward CSR or DEI?
Emphasize the goals of your campaign, as well as your campaign’s achievements in your synopsis. Provide as many concrete and specific examples of success as possible, and explain clearly and succinctly your research, planning, implementation and measurement of the campaign. For people and team categories use metrics to specifically outline achievements and explain the impact of the person or team's overall work. Highlight the individual or teams unique qualities and how they use those to create landmark campaigns.