The Champion for Change is a top-level executive from a major corporation (minimum $300M annual revenue) who uses their political capital, influence, and actions to drive buy-in, resources, and engagement from other executives, employees, and community leaders, advocate for the company’s corporate social impact work – but does not lead that work.
This award recognizes those who champion their company’s commitment to excellence in corporate social impact by advancing the business case, urging measurable results, and demonstrably committing to corporate social impact both inside and outside the company.
They are a true champion and advocate for the work, thereby creating company-wide adoption of the strategy; increasing financial, human, and in-kind resources; and providing thought leadership that advances the company’s social impact.
This leader is a senior executive in the company (CEO, CFO, or other C-Suite executives).
This leader shows commitment to driving their community forward by tackling and advancing relevant and current topical issues within corporate social impact.
The individual can be an ACCP member or from a non-member company.
Email purposeawards@accp.org with any questions.
The nomination period is April 30 – June 13, 2025.
Nominators will be informed in July 2025 of the status of their submission.
Please note: The 2025 Purpose Award recipients will be announced at the ACCP Annual Conference in Atlanta, September 15-17, 2025. There is an expectation for award recipients to be present for the awards ceremony, as they will be invited to speak at a Career Conversation during Conference.
To make your application as strong as it can be, ACCP recommends you:
- Work with your nominee to create a thorough and data-filled nomination form.
- Think through the nominee’s story and their program as you begin your application and how you can tell that story.
- Consider how to explain how this program and work go above and beyond the organization’s work.
- List measurable outcomes. Understanding impact can be more of a challenge without measurable outcomes. For individual awards, highlight the individual’s contributions and outcomes, rather than those of the whole team, if possible.
- If you have additional documentation you would like to include for the judges to consider, please email it to purposeawards@accp.org.
ACCP Champion for Change
2025 Award Application
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