The 2024 CSR & Variety Awards spotlighted a powerful group of communicators and campaigns who solid intersectional relationships with their communities, prioritized fairness of their hiring practices, launched inclusive partnerships with others doing complementary work, and way more.
Ragan Communications hosted an awards luncheon on Sept. twenty seventh at New York Metropolis’s Yale Membership, the place attendees gathered to rejoice the inclusive campaigns that made a considerable influence on communities which have lengthy been underrepresented.
“This 12 months’s Ragan’s CSR & Variety Awards finalists show that strategic social influence work stays important to partaking purpose-driven audiences—even in a 12 months when acronyms are politicized and criticized,” says Ragan CEO Diane Schwartz. “We’re honored to shine a highlight on their substantial and significant achievements.”
Ragan congratulates this inspiring group of leaders.
CSR & ESG Enterprise Practices
Worker Volunteer/Neighborhood Relations Program
Ernst & Younger LLP (EY US): EY Ripples
Carl Zeiss AG: ZEISS – A Coronary heart for Science
Circana: Circana’s Variety Benefit Program: Empowering Minority- and Ladies-owned Companies
Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority: DEWA Environmental Engagement Program
Encore Capital Group: Encore Linked Week
Hyperlink Logistics and CoreGiving: Hyperlink Logistics’ CoreGiving Day
Mars Meals & Diet: Ben’s Authentic Dedication to Objective and Inclusive Alternatives
TouchPoint Assist Providers: Extra Than a Partnership: Greatest Buddies & TouchPoint
VyStar Credit score Union: VyStar Volunteerism and Neighborhood Engagement
Employer Branding & Activism
UC Davis Well being: Imagine in Higher Model Marketing campaign
Cisco: We Are Cisco
Environmental Stewardship
Sanofi Client Healthcare North America: Sanofi CHC NA B Corp
Fluor: Attaining Our Web Zero 2023 Goal
Ivanti: Ivanti’s CSR
Lenovo Worldwide Providers Provide Chain: Reduces E-Waste and Carefully Fulfilling Environmental Obligations by way of Lifecycle Extension – Lenovo ISSC Inhouse Refurbishment Manufacturing facility
CSR & ESG Engagement and Communications
CSR Marketing campaign
Cisco Programs, Inc.: One Billion Lives
Division of Tradition & Tourism Abu Dhabi: Company Social Accountability
L’Oréal Groupe: L’Oréal Local weather Emergency Fund
Sallie Mae: Nationwide Scholarship Month
CSR or ESG Occasion (Digital or In Individual)
Cisco Programs, Inc.: Celebrating Variety and Neighborhood: Cisco’s Juneteenth Sponsorship Expertise
M&C Saatchi Sport & Leisure North America: Toss In, Take Out -The Growth of Coca-Cola 20-oz. bottles produced from 100% recycled plastic*
Walt Disney World Resort: As soon as Upon A Want Occasion
Worker Engagement Marketing campaign
Mars Meals & Diet: Ben’s Authentic Dedication to Objective and Inclusive Alternatives
Allied Options: Neighborhood Engagement Technique
Ernst & Younger LLP (EY US): EY Ripples
Mastercard: ESG in Motion
ESG Marketing campaign
Hon Hai Precision Business Co., Ltd.: Hon Hai Group’s Variety, Fairness and Inclusion Incapacity Service Program
Residents Monetary Group: Sustainability and Impression: Residents ESG Evolution
One97 Communications Restricted: Clear Air
Media Relations Marketing campaign
M&C Saatchi Sport & Leisure North America, Toss In, Take Out -The Growth of Coca-Cola 20-oz. bottles produced from 100% recycled plastic
PR Marketing campaign
Samsung Electronics America: Samsung Resolve for Tomorrow nationwide STEM competitors
M&C Saatchi Sport & Leisure North America: Toss In, Take Out
Mars Meals & Diet: Ben’s Authentic Dedication to Objective and Inclusive Alternatives
Windfall-Covenant Well being: Breastfeeding Problem
SkipTheDishes: Zero Waste Chef
Public Affairs/Points Administration Marketing campaign
Walt Disney World Resort: Disney in Florida
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD): Contact SMUD First
Report (CSR, DEI and/or ESG – Print or Digital)
STO Constructing Group: STOBG Cares: Company Accountability Report
Ameresco, Inc.: Ameresco’s Impression Report Exemplifies Doing Nicely by Doing Good for Folks, Planet, and Coverage
CF Industries and FTI Consulting: ESG and Sustainability Report
Cisco Programs, Inc.: The Energy of Objective: FY23 Cisco Objective Report
Consolidated Asset Administration Providers (CAMS): CAMS Annual ESG Report
Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority: DEWA Sustainability Report
Teladoc Well being: 2023 Company Social Accountability Report
Social Media Marketing campaign
Megaworld Basis, Inc.: Mega Summer time Ventures 4 All
OLLY: OLLY Psychological Well being Consciousness Month Marketing campaign
Stakeholder Engagement
L’Oréal Groupe: L’Oréal Local weather Emergency Fund
Mars Meals & Diet: Ben’s Authentic Dedication to Objective and Inclusive Alternatives
T-Cellular: Earth Day Quiz
Video
Prepare dinner County Division of Public Well being: Right here to Hear You – Suicide Prevention Neighborhood Conversations
Howard Neighborhood Faculty: Drag[on] Extravaganza: The DRAGumentary
CSR & ESG Social Impression
Trigger Advocacy Marketing campaign
OLLY: OLLY Psychological Well being Consciousness Month Marketing campaign
Higher Collectively: Higher Collectively Perception Report: Navigating Biases in Generative AI
Name of Obligation Endowment: Loot for Good
DonorsChoose: Distinctive Impression, Distinctive Burdens: Insights into the Black Male Educator Expertise
First High quality: Diaper Want Consciousness Week 2023
Neighborhood Affairs
Audible: Audible’s New Enterprise Attraction Program Recruits Various, Excessive-Development Firms to Newark’s Innovation Economic system
Corewell Well being: Veggie Van
Company-Neighborhood or Nonprofit Partnership
DraftKings: DraftKings S.E.R.V.E.S.
Cemex Egypt: Very Nile & Cemex Partnership
Dentsply Sirona: Partnering to advance the way forward for cleft care
ESPN: ESPN’s Want Granting
F.N.B. Company: The FNB Monetary Middle Challenge
Ford Motor Firm: Staff Rubicon Powered by Ford
Hyundai Hope On Wheels: Hyundai Hope On Wheels twenty fifth Anniversary
Mattress Agency: Mattress Agency and its companion Good360 resolve Mattress Agency’s out of date stock challenges, scale back landfill waste and assist 5,000 households nationwide sleep soundly by way of a collaborative product donation program.
Mercedes-Benz USA: Driving Your Future x Protected Children Worldwide
PepsiCo Basis: PepsiCo Basis-She Feeds The World
Robinhood: Robinhood Retirement for Unbiased Employees
Southwest Airways: Repurpose with Objective
Schooling or Scholarship Program
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD): SMUD Schooling Packages
American Motor Honda: Honda Battle of the Bands
BODEN Company: McDonald’s x BODEN Company: HACER® Nationwide Scholarship
Fox Company: FOX For College students
Nice Jobs KC: Radically Impacting the Kansas Metropolis Neighborhood by way of Job Coaching and Faculty Scholarships
Mastercard: Girls4Tech™
Sallie Mae: Nationwide Scholarship Month
Fundraising and Philanthropic Initiative
AstraZeneca Basis: Accelerating Healthcare Entry by way of Neighborhood, Connection & Impression
Hyperlink Logistics and CoreGiving: Hyperlink Logistics’ CoreGiving Day
Northwell Well being: Again to College Drive
World CSR & ESG Initiative
PepsiCo Basis: PepsiCo Basis-She Feeds The World
Carl Zeiss AG: ZEISS – A Coronary heart for Science
Dentsply Sirona: Partnering to advance the way forward for cleft care
EPAM Programs Inc.: EPAM Response: Water to the Kherson Oblast
Lam Analysis: FIRST World Problem 2023
Pertamina Patra Niaga – AFT Minangkabau: Wahyu Hamdika
Sofidel: Sofidel and Suzano for “Collectively we plant the long run”
Public Well being or Security Initiative
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee: Addressing Disparities By Information – Well being Fairness Report
Allergy & Bronchial asthma Community: Nationwide Trusted Messengers Program to Handle Well being Inequities
Actual Sciences: Actual Sciences’ Colorectal Most cancers Consciousness Month Campaigns
DE&I Campaigns/Initiatives
Neighborhood Relations
BODEN Company: BODEN Company x PepsiCo Juntos Crecemos
LAIKA: LAIKA DEI Committee
Mizuho Americas: Pathways to Profession Success: 5 Years with Genesys Works NYC
Genentech and Syneos Well being Communications: Placing Ableism within the Highlight: A First-of-its-Type Musical
TouchPoint Assist Providers: Afghan Refugee Program Makes Historical past in Tulsa
Cultural Celebration or Occasion
Orange County Transportation Authority: Tet Occasions for Lunar New 12 months of the Dragon
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee: African Individuals and the Arts – Celebrating Black Historical past Month
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises: Hispanic Heritage- Be the Subsequent Story Advised
Variety, Fairness and Inclusion Dedication
Criteo: DEI Initiatives
APCO: Speed up What’s Proper
Higher Collectively: Higher Collectively Perception Report: Navigating Biases in Generative AI
Coca-Cola Southwest Drinks: Neighborhood Canvas: An Inclusion and Variety Initiative By Coca-Cola Southwest Drinks
Devereux Superior Behavioral Well being: DEIB program
Ellucian: Constructing Firm Tradition By DEI
FINEOS Company Ltd: FINEOS DEI Embrace
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.: Nissan DEI Champion
Nobel: World Variety Consciousness Month at Nobel
Philip Morris Worldwide: All In for Inclusion
Sallie Mae: Nationwide Scholarship Month
TouchPoint Assist Providers: DEI Dedication
VCU Well being: VCU Well being’s Dedication to DEI
Worker Useful resource Teams (ERGs)
NeoGenomics Laboratories: Worker Useful resource Teams – NeoGenomics Laboratories
Circana: Circana: Constructing a Various and Dynamic Tradition
Criteo: Criteo Cares
LAIKA: LAIKA DEI Committee
NextRoll: NextRoll’s Worker Useful resource Teams (ERGs)
Prudential: BRG Actual Discuss video sequence
Purdue Pharma: Worker Useful resource Teams
Occasion (Digital or Reside)
Genetech and Syneos Well being Communication: Placing Ableism within the Highlight: A First-of-its-Type Musical
Criteo: Worldwide Ladies’s Day Occasions
Howard Neighborhood Faculty: Drag[on] Extravaganza
Orange County Transportation Authority: Tet Lunar New 12 months of the Dragon
Hiring Practices
Cardinal Well being: Expertise Acquisition Staff
Arlo Applied sciences: Arlo Inclusion Rule
Intranet Technique
Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman Worker Communications Middle of Apply
Arlo Applied sciences: Arlo Join
Mentoring Program
Mizuho Americas: M.A.D.E. College
Cloudera: Empowering Variety by way of Cloudera’s Sponsorship Program
PR or Advertising and marketing Marketing campaign
McCabe Message Companions: The American Nurses Affiliation’s Racial Reckoning
APCO and Congressional Black Caucus Basis, Inc.: Driving Dynamic Media Protection on the Congressional Black Caucus Basis’s 52nd Annual Legislative Convention
Genentech and Syneos Well being Communications: Placing Ableism within the Highlight: A First-of-its-Type Musical
Social Media Initiatives
Little Rock Conference & Guests Bureau: Expertise Little Rock in Coloration
Syner-G Bio Pharma Group: Lady’s Historical past Month Social Marketing campaign
Coaching
Cisco: Cisco World Govt Shadow Program
Hon Hai Precision Business Co., Ltd.: Hon Hai Group’s Variety, Fairness and Inclusion Incapacity Service Program
Folks and Groups
Company of the 12 months
BODEN Company
Headstand and Allison Worldwide Objective Middle of Excellence
Skilled of the 12 months
Allison Martin: GE Home equipment
Lesley Forneris: The Middle for Well being Affairs & CHAMPS Healthcare
Mona Johnson: Consolidated Asset Administration Providers (CAMS)
Larysa Kautz: Melwood
Andrea Ponce: Porter Novelli
Brian Wolfburg: VyStar Credit score Union
Staff of the 12 months
Onyx Collective | The Walt Disney Firm: Onyx Collective Publicity & Advertising and marketing Staff
EPAM Programs Inc.: ESG Staff
Orange County Transportation Authority: OCTA Variety Outreach and Inclusion Staff
For extra info on our winners, take a look at their profiles right here.
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