Benevity’s 2024 Corporate Goodness Awards Celebrate Groundbreakers in Social Impact
2024年4月26日 - 8:00PM
Benevity’s 2024 Corporate Goodness Awards Celebrate Groundbreakers
in Social Impact
Benevity Inc., the leading global provider of social impact
software, today announced the winners of its 2024 Corporate
Goodness Awards, also known as “The Goodies,” acknowledging
leading-edge brands for their innovative and inspirational
approaches to social impact, employee engagement and corporate
philanthropy. The 2024 Goodie Awards were presented to the winners
on April 25 in Palm Springs, CA at Benevity Live!, the company’s
flagship conference, which brings together more than 700
purpose-driven professionals to share insights and strategies about
the future of corporate impact.
This year saw a record-breaking 197 nominations from 99 of the
world’s most iconic and purpose-driven brands. The winners were
recognized across various categories based on the innovative,
inclusive and creative ways they are making a difference in the
world through their giving, volunteering and community investment
programs.
“The Goodie Awards winners and finalists are doing incredible
things to challenge the status quo, catalyze positive action in
meaningful ways and creatively solve critical issues facing
society,” said Kelly Schmitt, Benevity’s Chief Executive Officer.
“We are so inspired by these innovative companies and people for
creating deeply impactful programs that truly reflect their core
values.”
Companies who were selected as Goodies finalists contributed
more than $153 million in donations and $7.9 million in grants and
tracked more than 1.7 million volunteer hours through the Benevity
platform in 2023.
Benevity’s 2024 Goodies Finalists and
Winners
The Bestie Awards: For best-in-class approach and
overall impactThe Bestie Award is selected from all
finalists and recognizes the company with the best-in-class
approach to corporate purpose, driving impact for their nonprofits,
communities and employees.
- USAA (WINNER for Enterprise)
- Vancouver Airport Authority (WINNER for
Mid-size)
The BeCause Award: For dedication to causesThe
BeCause Award recognizes companies making a big impact on societal
or community issues by removing barriers for nonprofits so they can
operate with more autonomy, flexibility and speed.
- eBay (WINNER)
- HPE
- Hootsuite
- IBM
- Robert Bosa Foundation
The Buzz Award: For catalyzing purpose through
communications and storytellingThe Buzz Award recognizes
companies that bring their corporate purpose programs to life, by
embracing true storytelling over “numbertelling” and by sharing
impact stories from employees, customers and/or nonprofits.
- Elevance Health Foundation (WINNER)
- Activision Blizzard
- Ciena
- Okta
- Relativity
The Community Hero Award: For best in class approach to
community investmentThe Community Hero Award recognizes
companies taking a strategic yet creative approach to community
investment to create greater impact with its nonprofit
partners.
- DaVita (WINNER)
- CSAA Insurance Group
- Principal Financial Group
- Sequoia Healthcare District
- Vancouver Airport Authority
The Moonshot Award: For boldness and
creativityThe Moonshot Award recognizes companies that
have developed a creative, bold and impactful corporate purpose
program and engages their communities, employees or customers in
interesting ways to maximize their social and business impact.
- Coast Capital Savings
(WINNER)
- First Tech Federal Credit Union
- FTI Consulting
- Gibson Energy
- USAA
The NewB Award: For most transformative
approachThe NewB Award recognizes new Benevity clients
that have created significant impact through a best-in-class
corporate purpose program launch and have implemented best
practices to engage stakeholders.
- Alberta Investment Management Corp.
(WINNER)
- ENMAX
- KLA Foundation
- Tractor Supply
- Veritiv
The People Power Award: For promoting purpose through
people’s passions The People Power Award recognizes
companies that build a culture powered by its people and creates
significant impact by putting the power of goodness in the hands of
employees to address critical issues.
- Ciena (WINNER)
- Appfire
- F5
- Gilead Foundation
- Symetra Life Insurance Company
The Buffy Award: For individual leadership, innovation
and impactThe Buffy Award celebrates outstanding
individuals who exemplify passion, innovation, imagination and
leadership in the corporate purpose space.
- Kelly Petrich, Director, Community Impact,
Cisco
- Estelle Roth, Global Head Giving & Volunteering,
Novartis
The Change Champion Award: For an executive who
champions a purpose-driven cultureThis new category
celebrates an executive who is a shining example of what it looks
like to lead with purpose. They foster diversity, equity and
inclusion; they champion social action; and they inspire others
with their commitment to purpose, people and profit.
- Kristina Karnovsky, FactSet
Employee Catalyst Award: For an employee whose passion
creates movementsThe Employee Catalyst Award recognizes
passionate employees who go beyond their day-to-day job to engage
employees and community members in opportunities to do good,
helping to fuel a culture of purpose.
Learn more about this year’s Goodie Awards winners and their
exciting programs here.
About BenevityBenevity, a certified B
Corporation, is the leading global provider of social impact
software, providing the only integrated suite of community
investment and employee, customer and nonprofit engagement
solutions. Recognized as one of Fortune’s Impact 20, Benevity
offers cloud solutions that power purpose for many iconic brands in
ways that better attract, retain and engage today’s diverse
workforce, embed social action into their customer experiences and
positively impact their communities. With software that is
available in 22 languages, Benevity has processed more than $15
billion in donations and 79 million hours of volunteering time to
support 470,000 nonprofits worldwide. The company’s solutions have
also facilitated 1.3 million micro-actions and managed 845,000
grants worth $16 billion. For more information, visit
benevity.com.
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