MakeChange Awards

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People's Choice Of The Year

Voting is now CLOSED.

Voting Begins:
Friday, December 7 (12:00 PM PST)

Voting Ends:
Friday, December 14 (12:00 PM PST)

How do I vote for the People's Choice?
There is one (1) voting method to participate in this People's Choice: Twitter account holders may participate by posting, from their Twitter account ("Twitter ID"), a Twitter Message (a tweet) with the assigned hashtag corresponding to ONE of the organizations/companies they want to vote for. Retweets will be counted as a valid vote as long as you do not add a comment, which makes it a 'quote' not a 'retweet', and a 'quote' will not count as a valid vote.

Hashtags consist of #Vote plus the name of the company/organization, all as one word.

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Award Categories

Nominations Are Open Year Around!

Conscious Leadership Of The Year

Social Enterprise Of The Year

People's Choice Of The Year

This category recognizes businesses that engage in and support conscious leadership within their companies. They understand that the leader's role is to serve the purpose of the organization, to support the people within the organization and to create value for the all of the organization’s stakeholders. They cultivate a culture of trust and care, focusing on “we” rather than “me."

This category recognizes enterprises that exist to address a social or environmental need, reinvesting profit or surplus from trade to achieve its social mission and those achieving the greatest impact while demonstrating excellence in all aspects of enterprise.

This category recognizes the highest voted enterprise using one (1) voting method to participate via Twitter. Account holders may participate by posting, from their Twitter account ("Twitter ID"), a Twitter Message (a tweet) with the assigned hashtag corresponding to ONE of the nominees they want to vote for.

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MakeChange Of The Year

Impact Of The Year

Innovation Of The Year

This category recognizes enterprises that are drivers of a movement of people using business to elevate humanity. They consider the impact of their decisions based on their stakeholders, social responsibility, governance, worker well-being, and business model.

This category recognizes enterprises addressing social challenges and those that best demonstrate the improvement made to the communities in which they operate. The organizations that have evidence of where they have embedded its principles into its objectives and achieved a positive and lasting social impact through partnerships, investments, probono work, and/or employee led initiatives will be recognized.

This category recognizes all forms of successfully applied innovation, from new products and services to a culture of improvement, and celebrates the ideas that have had the greatest impact on an organization or industry. Organizations will be recognized for their demonstrated innovation and how that has developed and applied to improve its performance, operational effectiveness or customer engagement.

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