High Impact Small Team

The High Impact Small Team of the Year award recognizes a small corporate social impact team that delivers outsized results relative to its size and resources. 

These teams demonstrate creativity, efficiency, and strategic focus—often managing broad portfolios, scaling new programs, or advancing ambitious goals with limited capacity. 

Rather than a single initiative, this award celebrates how the team operates overall—how they prioritize, collaborate, and maximize impact. 

Winning teams show: 

  • Strong business and social impact despite constrained resources 
  • Innovative approaches to scaling programs or managing complexity 
  • Effective use of partnerships and cross-functional collaboration 
  • Resilience and adaptability in the face of competing demands 

Applicants are not required to be current members of ACCP. 

The nomination period is April 30 – June 5, 2026.
Nominators will be informed in July 2026 of the status of their submission.

Please note: The 2026 Purpose Award recipients will be announced at the ACCP Annual Conference in Boston, September 14-16, 2026. 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.

High Impact Small Team
2026 Award Application

By submitting this application, you grant ACCP permission to use the information shared to create copy to announce and highlight the award recipient. The recipient will be highlighted and recognized at the ACCP Conference in September and in ACCP communications, including, but not limited to, the ACCP website, ACCP social media, and email communications. 

This category focuses on how your team works—not just what you worked on. 
Example: Managing a multi-market CSR portfolio with a team of two 

All fields marked with * are required.

Nominator Information

Nominee Information

Please list names and emails for all team members

Application Questions

Question 1
Describe your team's overall scope of work and responsibilities, including the geographic footprint of CSR efforts, the size of the business (revenue and number of employees). How does your team operate given its size?
~150–200 words
Question 2
What strategies does your team use to maximize impact with limited resources?
e.g., prioritization, partnerships, use of data, leveraging employees
~100 words
Question 3
Share an example of how your team scaled a program, initiative, or strategy beyond what might typically be expected for a team of your size.
~100 words
Question 4
How does your team collaborate across the organization to extend your reach and influence?
~100 words
Question 5
Describe how your team demonstrates creativity, efficiency, or innovation in your approach.
~100 words
Question 6
What business and social impact results has your team achieved overall?
~100 words

Thank you for your submission.