Each year, United Way’s Awards of Distinction recognize the hard work and compassion of changemakers who support the community they love and drive purposeful and meaningful social change.
The Awards of Distinction recognize those exceptional individuals and groups who embrace the notion that ordinary people have the potential to achieve extraordinary things.
This award honours an ECC who demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and commitment in executing their workplace campaign. The recipient effectively engaged employees, aligned efforts with United Way’s best practices, overcame challenges, and implemented innovative fundraising strategies to achieve or exceed campaign goals.
This award honours an ECC who demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and commitment in executing their workplace campaign. The recipient effectively engaged employees, aligned efforts with United Way’s best practices, overcame challenges, and implemented innovative fundraising strategies to achieve or exceed campaign goals.
This award is presented to the committee member (or company volunteer) who demonstrated exceptional commitment to the success of the workplace campaign.
The Big Idea award is presented to an organization or individual whose new and innovative idea generated a big payoff for United Way and its purpose to build a strong and vibrant community where no one is left behind.
This award is presented to the workplace campaign committee that demonstrated innovation, teamwork, and enthusiasm in promoting and executing the campaign, achieving stronger-than-expected results in the workplace.
This award is presented to the workplace campaign committee that demonstrated innovation, teamwork, and enthusiasm in promoting and executing the campaign, achieving stronger-than-expected results in the workplace.
This award is presented to the workplace campaign committee that demonstrated innovation, teamwork, and enthusiasm in promoting and executing the campaign, achieving stronger-than-expected results in the workplace.
The Education and Engagement award is presented to the workplace campaign that increased awareness of community needs and the impact of United Way donations, showed excellence in coordinating and motivating coworkers, and achieved stronger-than-expected results in the workplace.
This new award recognizes a workplace campaign which made intentional efforts to engage the next generation of community leaders (aged 40 and under), retirees, and/or women and gender diverse groups in campaign activities to increase awareness and support of United Way initiatives.
The Funded Partner award is presented to the United Way funded partner campaign that showed outstanding commitment, dedication, and creativity in executing their own United Way employee campaign.
The Leading the Way award is presented to an organization that has demonstrated outstanding support for the Leaders of the Way program ($1,200-$9,999). The campaign committee has made efforts to recognize long-standing, consistent leadership presence.
This award recognizes an organization that is supporting United Way for the first time. Recipients are honoured for demonstrating a commitment to the community by empowering individuals to get involved and make a difference.
This award recognizes non-profit leaders who go beyond their roles to strengthen the social sector and create lasting change in their communities.
Meet previous year’s awards recipients – exceptional individuals and groups who embrace the notion that ordinary people have the potential to achieve extraordinary things
