Congratulations to the Winners and Honorable Mentions of Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Awards!

Ragan is proud to congratulate the winners and Honorable Mentions of its 2024 CSR & Diversity Awards! Your exceptional work in corporate social responsibility and diversity initiatives is truly shaping a brighter and more inclusive future, and it was an honor to celebrate your achievements at this year’s luncheon.

The event on September 27 at the Yale Club in New York City was a wonderful gathering of leaders dedicated to making a positive impact. The initiatives recognized this year showcased inspiring commitments to social good, sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion.

To all the honorees, your work is a testament to the power of purpose-driven communication and action. Your accomplishments set a new benchmark for excellence in CSR and diversity, and we are thrilled to have highlighted your contributions.

Thank you for your leadership and dedication to creating change. Congratulations once again to the winners and Honorable Mentions—we look forward to seeing how you continue to lead the charge for positive impact!

Scroll down to read about all of the winners and to find the list of Honorable Mentions.

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WINNERS

CSR & ESG Business Practices

Employee Volunteer/Community Relations Program

Honorable Mentions

Employee Volunteer/Community Relations Program

Honorable Mentions
  • Carl Zeiss AG: ZEISS – A Heart for Science
  • Circana: Circana’s Diversity Advantage Program: Empowering Minority- and Women-owned Businesses
  • Dubai Electricity and Water Authority: DEWA Environmental Engagement Program
  • Encore Capital Group: Encore Connected Week
  • Link Logistics and CoreGiving: Link Logistics’ CoreGiving Day
  • Mars Food & Nutrition: Ben’s Original Commitment to Purpose and Inclusive Opportunities
  • TouchPoint Support Services: More Than a Partnership: Best Buddies & TouchPoint
  • VyStar Credit Union: VyStar Volunteerism and Community Engagement
Winner

Employee Volunteer/Community Relations Program

Employer Branding & Activism

Honorable Mentions

Employer Branding & Activism

Honorable Mentions
  • Cisco: We Are Cisco
Winner

Employer Branding & Activism

Environmental Stewardship

Honorable Mentions

Environmental Stewardship

Honorable Mentions
  • Fluor: Achieving Our Net Zero 2023 Target
  • Ivanti: Ivanti's CSR
  • Lenovo International Services Supply Chain: Reduces E-Waste and Conscientiously Fulfilling Environmental Responsibilities through Lifecycle Extension – Lenovo ISSC Inhouse Refurbishment Factory
Winner

CSR & ESG Engagement and Communications

CSR Campaign

Honorable Mentions

CSR Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Department of Culture & Tourism Abu Dhabi: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • L’Oréal Groupe: L’Oréal Climate Emergency Fund
  • Sallie Mae: National Scholarship Month
Winner

CSR or ESG Event (Virtual or In Person)

Honorable Mentions
  • M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment North America: Toss In, Take Out -The Expansion of Coca-Cola 20-oz. bottles made from 100% recycled plastic*
  • Walt Disney World Resort: Once Upon A Wish Party
Winner

Employee Engagement Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Allied Solutions: Community Engagement Strategy
  • Ernst & Young LLP (EY US): EY Ripples
  • Mastercard: ESG in Action
Winner

ESG Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Citizens Financial Group: Sustainability and Impact: Citizens ESG Evolution
  • One97 Communications Limited: Clear Air
Winner

PR Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment North America, Toss In, Take Out -The Expansion of Coca-Cola 20-oz. bottles made from 100% recycled plastic
  • Mars Food & Nutrition: Ben’s Original Commitment to Purpose and Inclusive Opportunities
  • Providence-Covenant Health: Breastfeeding Challenge
  • SkipTheDishes: Zero Waste Chef
Winner

Public Affairs/Issues Management Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Public Affairs/Issues Management Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD): Contact SMUD First
Winner

Public Affairs/Issues Management Campaign

Report (CSR, DEI and/or ESG - Print or Digital)

Honorable Mentions

Report (CSR, DEI and/or ESG - Print or Digital)

Honorable Mentions
  • Ameresco, Inc.: Ameresco’s Impact Report Exemplifies Doing Well by Doing Good for People, Planet, and Policy
  • CF Industries and FTI Consulting: ESG and Sustainability Report
  • Cisco Systems, Inc.: The Power of Purpose: FY23 Cisco Purpose Report
  • Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS): CAMS Annual ESG Report
  • Dubai Electricity and Water Authority: DEWA Sustainability Report
  • Teladoc Health: 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Winner

Report (CSR, DEI and/or ESG - Print or Digital)

Social Media Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Social Media Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • OLLY: OLLY Mental Health Awareness Month Campaign
Winner

Stakeholder Engagement

Honorable Mentions

Stakeholder Engagement

Honorable Mentions
  • Mars Food & Nutrition: Ben’s Original Commitment to Purpose and Inclusive Opportunities
  • T-Mobile: Earth Day Quiz
Winner

CSR & ESG Social Impact

Cause Advocacy Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Cause Advocacy Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Better Together: Better Together Insight Report: Navigating Biases in Generative AI
  • Call of Duty Endowment: Loot for Good
  • DonorsChoose: Unique Impact, Unique Burdens: Insights into the Black Male Educator Experience
  • First Quality: Diaper Need Awareness Week 2023
Winner

Corporate-Community or Nonprofit Partnership

Honorable Mentions

Corporate-Community or Nonprofit Partnership

Honorable Mentions
  • Cemex Egypt: Very Nile & Cemex Partnership
  • Dentsply Sirona: Partnering to advance the future of cleft care
  • ESPN: ESPN's Wish Granting
  • F.N.B. Corporation: The FNB Financial Center Project
  • Ford Motor Company: Team Rubicon Powered by Ford
  • Hyundai Hope On Wheels: Hyundai Hope On Wheels 25th Anniversary
  • Mattress Firm: Mattress Firm and its partner Good360 solve Mattress Firm’s obsolete inventory challenges, reduce landfill waste and help 5,000 families nationwide sleep soundly through a collaborative product donation program.
  • Mercedes-Benz USA: Driving Your Future x Safe Kids Worldwide
  • PepsiCo Foundation: She Feeds The World
  • Robinhood: Robinhood Retirement for Independent Workers
  • Southwest Airlines: Repurpose with Purpose
Winner

Corporate-Community or Nonprofit Partnership

Education or Scholarship Program

Honorable Mentions

Education or Scholarship Program

Honorable Mentions
  • American Motor Honda: Honda Battle of the Bands
  • BODEN Agency: McDonald's x BODEN Agency: HACER® National Scholarship
  • Fox Corporation: FOX For Students
  • Great Jobs KC: Radically Impacting the Kansas City Community through Job Training and College Scholarships
  • Mastercard: Girls4Tech™
  • Sallie Mae: National Scholarship Month
Winner

Fundraising and Philanthropic Initiative

Honorable Mentions

Fundraising and Philanthropic Initiative

Honorable Mentions
  • Link Logistics and CoreGiving: Link Logistics’ CoreGiving Day
  • Northwell Health: Back to School Drive
Winner

Global CSR & ESG Initiative

Honorable Mentions

Global CSR & ESG Initiative

Honorable Mentions
  • Carl Zeiss AG: ZEISS – A Heart for Science
  • Dentsply Sirona: Partnering to advance the future of cleft care
  • EPAM Systems Inc.: EPAM Response: Water to the Kherson Oblast
  • Lam Research: FIRST Global Challenge 2023
  • Pertamina Patra Niaga - AFT Minangkabau: Wahyu Hamdika
  • Sofidel: Sofidel and Suzano for “Together we plant the future"
Winner

Global CSR & ESG Initiative

Public Health or Safety Initiative

Honorable Mentions
  • Allergy & Asthma Network: National Trusted Messengers Program to Address Health Inequities
  • Exact Sciences: Exact Sciences’ Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Campaigns
Winner

DE&I Campaigns/Initiatives

Community Relations

Honorable Mentions

Community Relations

Honorable Mentions
  • Genentech and Syneos Health Communications: Putting Ableism in the Spotlight: A First-of-its-Kind Musical
  • LAIKA: LAIKA DEI Committee
  • Mizuho Americas: Pathways to Career Success: Five Years with Genesys Works NYC
  • TouchPoint Support Services: Afghan Refugee Program Makes History in Tulsa
Winner

Cultural Celebration or Event

Honorable Mentions
  • BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee: African Americans and the Arts – Celebrating Black History Month
  • NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises: Hispanic Heritage- Be the Next Story Told
Winner

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

Honorable Mentions

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

Honorable Mentions
  • APCO: Accelerate What's Right
  • Better Together: Better Together Insight Report: Navigating Biases in Generative AI
  • Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages: Community Canvas: An Inclusion and Diversity Initiative By Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages
  • Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health: DEIB program
  • Ellucian: Building Company Culture Through DEI
  • FINEOS Corporation Ltd: FINEOS DEI Embrace
  • Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.: Nissan DEI Champion
  • Nobel: Global Diversity Awareness Month at Nobel
  • Philip Morris International: All In for Inclusion
  • Sallie Mae: National Scholarship Month
  • TouchPoint Support Services: DEI Commitment
  • VCU Health: VCU Health's Commitment to DEI
Winner

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Honorable Mentions

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Honorable Mentions
  • Circana: Circana: Building a Diverse and Dynamic Culture
  • Criteo: Criteo Cares
  • LAIKA: LAIKA DEI Committee
  • NextRoll: NextRoll’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Prudential: BRG Real Talk video series
  • Purdue Pharma: Employee Resource Groups
Winner

Event (Virtual or Live)

Honorable Mentions
  • Criteo: International Women's Day Events
  • Howard Community College: Drag[on] Extravaganza
  • Orange County Transportation Authority: Tet Lunar New Year of the Dragon
Winner

Hiring Practices

Honorable Mentions

Hiring Practices

Honorable Mentions
  • Arlo Technologies Arlo Inclusion Rule
Winner

Intranet Strategy

Honorable Mentions
  • Arlo Technologies: Arlo Connect
Winner

Mentoring Program

Honorable Mentions

Mentoring Program

Honorable Mentions
  • Cloudera: Empowering Diversity through Cloudera's Sponsorship Program
Winner

PR or Marketing Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • APCO and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.: Driving Dynamic Media Coverage at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 52nd Annual Legislative Conference
  • Genentech and Syneos Health Communications: Putting Ableism in the Spotlight: A First-of-its-Kind Musical
Winner

Social Media Initiatives

Honorable Mentions
  • Syner-G Bio Pharma Group: Woman's History Month Social Campaign
Winner

Training

Honorable Mentions

Training

Honorable Mentions
  • Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Hon Hai Group's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Disability Service Program
Winner

People and Teams

Agency of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Agency of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Headstand and Allison Worldwide Purpose Center of Excellence
Winner

Agency of the Year

Professional of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Professional of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Mona JohMona Johnson: Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS)nson
  • Lesley Forneris: The Center for Health Affairs & CHAMPS Healthcare
  • Larysa Kautz: Melwood
  • Andrea Ponce: Porter Novelli
  • Brian Wolfburg: VyStar Credit Union
Winner

Professional of the Year

Team of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • EPAM Systems Inc.: ESG Team
  • Orange County Transportation Authority: OCTA Diversity Outreach and Inclusion Team
Winner

Awards

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If you have any questions, please email Barbara Kanady at barbarak@ragan.com.