The Rising Star is a junior 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.
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.
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.
