The corporate social responsibility category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors corporate initiatives that use a company’s platform and power to help advance change, either internally or for the community. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, how Miyoko’s Creamery wants to help dairy farmers pivot from cows to crops.
Finalists
Afghan Refugee Initiative, Shef
American Connection Corps, Land O’Lakes
The Blue Standard, Oceanic Global
Checkr Expungements, Checkr
Content for Change, Paramount
Degree Inclusive, Wunderman Thompson Argentina and Unilever
Google Auditorial, R/GA London
Merryfield Rewards, Merryfield
No SSN Required, Majority
One School, The One Club for Creativity
Pep+ Positive Agriculture, PepsiCo
Shared Truckload Solution, Flock Freight
Honorable mentions
Alimento Pronto Enriquecido com Vitaminas, AB InBev
The BirdSeed Foundation, Flock DC
Bospar Messes With Texas, Bospar
Caldwell Cares, Caldwell Intellectual Property Law
Commute Hub, RideAmigos
Educational Pathways, Banfield Pet Hospital
Enhanced Human Trafficking Awareness Training, Marriott International
“Football Is for Everyone,” 72andSunny and National Football League
Ghana Waste Management Fleet Electrification, Zeronox
Google.org Fellowship: COVID-19 Response, Google.org
Grow Well Ecosystem, Vertical Harvest Farms
Hope Reef, Sheba
Lemonade Car, Lemonade
LG Nova, LG Electronics
Mission Moen, Moen
PatentSight UN SDG Tracker Analytics Tool, Lexis Nexis
Path, PathWater
Pave Commute, RideAmigos
People and Planet 5 Survey, Gallup
Project: SugarFree, DNA
Racial Justice Fund, Change.org
Salla 2032, Africa
Scaling reclaimed carbon fiber to reduce emissions, Dell Technologies
Sentinels of Light Social Impact Campaign, Riot Games
Spellcheck for Bias, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, USC’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), and NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion (GTDI)
Veritree, Veritree
We “Can” Fight Hunger, AB Inbev
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