CRITERIA
The Rising Star is a an early or mid-career professional in CSR/ESG whose work has created measurable impact inside and/or outside the company – without the benefit of positional authority.
This award recognizes a purpose-driven professional’s achievement of social impact that is attainable at any level in one’s career, with initiative, vision, and hard work.
This professional implements or cultivates an initiative (as part of their role within the company) that results in measurable impact within the company (internally), in the community (externally), and/or both. This person utilizes influence, initiative, and vision, without positional authority, to achieve outsized impact.
This person applies current knowledge and best practices to drive their work forward, demonstrating that they stay current in the field (e.g., considering racial equity, thinking about outcome measurement, bringing data or examples to the table, etc.).
The individual can be an ACCP member or from a non-member company.
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 in ACCP communications including, but not limited to, the ACCP website, ACCP social media, and in email communications.
Email purposeawards@accp.org with any questions.
