Honors communicators who have used their platform to aid in improving the lives of marginalized persons and shown consistent commitment to diversity and inclusion causes.

Honors the professional that has spearheaded corporate social responsibility efforts and has been a consistent advocate for social good within their organization.

Honors an in-house team that has built out impactful social good efforts and consistently worked to better the communities in which they work. 

Honors agencies that have been leaders in CSR efforts and consistently worked to better their communities.

An innovative, minority-owned Agency that consistently champions social good initiatives and works to better their communities. 

Honors diverse teams of professionals that have tackled some of the biggest challenges using innovative and effective PR strategies.

Celebrates an employee-led affinity group whose mission includes fostering community and advancing a culture of belonging.

Honors agencies that have been leaders in ESG efforts and consistently worked to promote sustainability among their clients. 

Honors an in-house team that has driven impactful ESG efforts and enacted positive change. 

Honors the professional that empowers women both in professional settings and society through the promotion of gender equality and equality of access to opportunities, education, etc.

Honors communicators and communications educators who have shown long standing commitment to the development and career trajectory of their mentees.

Honors communicators who have used their platforms to shed light on issues affecting their communities, made contributions to fostering diversity within their fields, shown commitment to the value of diversity, and worked toward promoting inclusive initiatives.

This category honors the campaign that best showcases efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, and/or environmental reform/societal change.

Honors successful communications and PR campaigns executed by a diverse-owned business.

Honors the best efforts to raise awareness, money, or consumer engagement in a social or environmental issue and campaigns in which the corporation’s brand is aligned with a cause, resulting in a nonprofit-corporate partnership that benefits the cause.

This category honors the best event centered around CSR practices and includes both the planning and promotion of the event.

The winner of this category will have conducted an impressive campaign all while working with a shoestring budget.

Honors the best diversity and inclusion campaigns executed by PR agencies.

This category honors an event centered around DEIB+ practices.

Honors the efforts, initiatives or programs that promote diversity and inclusion within an organization.

Honors the campaign that best tackles issues surrounding disability awareness, including but not limited to: inclusive mobility, accessibility, and safety. 

This category recognizes outstanding campaigns that promote education or literacy.

This category recognizes outstanding campaigns that discuss the environmental impact, the ability of future generations to meet their needs, energy, climate and/or preservation.

This category honors the best campaign using a language other than English or that targets a none English speaking demographic.

Honors a campaign that used innovative methods to raise money for a cause. 

Recognizing outstanding campaigns focused on creating equal access to resources and opportunities, regardless of gender. 

Honored an outstanding campaign supporting a social-good objective on a global scale.

This category recognizes outstanding campaigns centered on economic, social, cultural, civil and/or political human rights.

Awarded to an outstanding campaign focused on bringing aid and assistance to those affected by homelessness, natural or human-made disasters, war, famine, etc. 

Honors successful communications and PR campaigns centered around the LGBTQIA2+ community.

Honors creative and impactful PR and communications campaigns focused on mental wellbeing. 

Awarded to an outstanding social good campaign that spanned multiple platforms. Entry should explain how content was uniquely applied for each platform and how it all worked in unison to achieve the campaign’s goals. 

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.

Honors the best PR project done completely pro-bono.

This category spotlights the most impactful and creative Public Service Announcement. 

This category recognizes outstanding campaigns that deal with health, health equity, safety and/or the general welfare of the public. 

Awarded to an impactful campaign that sought to fight discrimination, prejudice and bias based on race in order to promote racial equality. 

Social Good/Responsibility Campaign: 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 society.

Awarded to a successful campaign that sought to fight social injustice based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, or ability status. 

Honors the best campaign or initiative to increase trust among stakeholders and increase organizational transparency.

This category recognizes the best use of video to encourage social good and communicate with stakeholders.

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.

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.

The winner of this category will have demonstrated community impact through the implementation of a CSR program.

Honors the initiative that contributes to the long-term success of its employees. The winner of this award will have demonstrated success providing employee skill-building or training opportunities as well as success in helping employees perform better.

This category recognizes outstanding communications and volunteer efforts of a company to support a social or community cause.

Honors the efforts, initiatives or programs that promote diversity and inclusion within an organization.

This category recognizes outstanding communications and volunteer efforts of a company to support a social or community cause.

Honors programs that have helped future communicators advance in their careers. This award recognizes a successful diversity promotion program that has been in place for at least 2 years and has made a sustained and measurable impact on a company’s ratio of diverse employees.

Honors the efforts, initiatives or programs that recruit, develop and retain diverse talent.

The winner of this category will have demonstrated community impact through the implementation of a scholarship program.

This category recognizes outstanding CSR-and-sustainability reports for shareholders and other key constituents.