U.S. Chamber Foundation Citizens Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Applications are open for the U.S. Chamber Foundation Citizens Awards 2025. For greater than 25 years, the Corporate Citizenship Awards (“Citizens Awards”) have highlighted how companies function a pressure for good, increasing OPPORTUNITY and driving progress in each facet of society. This program acknowledges essentially the most progressive and impactful company citizenship initiatives that leverage an organization’s expertise, sources, and experience to enhance communities.

Awards can be given within the following classes:

• Best Civic Engagement Program: For companies elevating civics and empowering workers and communities to take part in civic life.
• Best Community Improvement Program: Recognizing strategic initiatives in housing, poverty, financial improvement, security, arts, youth improvement, and extra.
• Best Community Resilience and Disaster Response Program: Honoring efforts in catastrophe preparedness, response, and lengthy-time period restoration.
• Best Economic Opportunity and Empowerment Program: For initiatives in monetary inclusion, entrepreneurship, workforce improvement, and variety.
• Best Education and Workforce Program: Celebrating applications advancing schooling, upskilling, STEM, profession steerage, and entry to expertise.
• Best Health and Wellness Program: For initiatives in office wellness, diet, illness prevention, and healthcare entry.
• Best Sustainability Program: Recognizing environmental stewardship, local weather options, sustainable provide chains, and round economic system efforts.
• Best Corporate Steward (Small/Mid-Market & Large Business): Honoring firms that create “shared value” for shareholders, workers, prospects, communities, and the setting.

Eligibility

The Citizens Awards signify the facility of enterprise to create stronger communities within the U.S. and around the globe.

• Businesses of all sizes, chambers, and commerce associations are eligible to be nominated for the Citizens Awards.  
• An entity might nominate itself or be nominated by a 3rd celebration. They welcome nominations that characterize a member of the enterprise group working as a solo entity or working with companions. Given the general public format of finalist data, third-celebration nominators ought to make sure the nominated entity is conscious of the application and ready to take part in awards actions.     
• If a number of firms/chambers/commerce associations wish to submit a nomination on behalf of their partnership, they could apply as a bunch as long as there’s a main entity that can be acknowledged as a possible finalist and is the one level of contact. Multiple companies can’t be named a finalist for a single class.  
• Non-business companions might nominate their work with a member of the enterprise group, as long as the enterprise is the first entity that can be acknowledged because the potential finalist and is the one level of contact. 
• Entities may be nominated for a couple of class, and a separate application is required for every class. Additionally, whereas a nominee can submit the identical work in a number of classes (whether it is related to a couple of class), they’re eligible to be a finalist in solely one of many classes, which can be decided by scoring (the class with the best rating for that program would be the finalist class).    
• Past winners aren’t eligible to submit an application for 2 years within the class for which they received. For instance, 2023 award winners aren’t eligible till 2026 for the class by which they received in 2023. Immediate previous winners are, nevertheless, greater than welcome to submit nominations in new classes.  

Application

Awards are given in several classes, from civic engagement and financial alternative to schooling and catastrophe response. The deadline to apply is June 20, 2025. There’s no price to submit a nomination. Get began right this moment!

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For extra data, go to U.S. Chamber Foundation Citizens Awards.