The Corporate Social Impact Team highlights a CSR team of 4 or more practitioners (or a subset of that size from the larger CSR team) whose collaborative and innovative approach to a CSR or ESG project or program generated significant business results for the company and social impact in the community.
This award recognizes achievement in business results and social impact through an innovative and collaborative initiative by a corporate social impact team or group within the department. The team’s work results in an exceptional social impact, creating outcomes that can be shared inside and outside the company.
This team works well together, collaborates across departments, and engages cross-functional partners and employees. Each team member is clear on their role and brings value to the team while supporting one another to ensure success.
This team successfully solves problems and demonstrates resiliency as inevitable challenges or barriers arise. The team’s innovative approach helps drive success and incorporates diversity, equity, and inclusion to advance their work.
Applicants are not required to be current members of ACCP.
Email purposeawards@accp.org with any questions.
The nomination period is April 30 – June 5, 2026.
Nominators will be informed in July 2026 of the status of their submission.
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.
Corporate Social Impact Team
2026 award application
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