The Denver Business Journal is excited to announce the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards.
Donor Name: Denver Business Journal
State: Colorado
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 02/19/2024
Details:
In this time of rapid social change and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to recognize businesses and leaders who are effectively promoting authentic diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL is excited to create this awards program which seeks to honor the outstanding organizations and outspoken individuals in metro Denver who are going above and beyond to bolster equality across all areas of diversity, including age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and religion.
Nomination Benefits
- Recognition by Denver Business Journal – the region’s business media company of record – can set a business apart from its competitors and make the business more visible in the community and to potential partners and investors.
- If your candidate makes the list, it sends a message of success to employees and prospective employees, and gives your company the opportunity to recognize workers for their contributions to your success.
- Service providers are encouraged to nominate exceptional clients and partners they believe are worthy of broad public recognition.
- The awards event will be memorable and a valuable opportunity to meet and network with other award-winning companies and community business leaders.
Eligibility Requirements
- Nominees must have a physical presence in the Denver metro area (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties).
- Nominations should include as much detail as possible about a nominee’s specific, tangible DE&I accomplishments and how they impacted the company or the community.
- Self-nominations are encouraged.
- You can only win once. If you have already received this award, please pay it forward by nominating another deserving individual or company.
- Nominees must agree to participate in a Denver Business Journal interview and the awards presentation in order to be honored and recognized on the DBJ website, in the weekly print edition and at the event.
- The contact information provided must be that of the nominee and nominee company officials. Public Relations firms nominating clients must provide the direct contact info for the nominee and should inform their clients of the nomination. Failure to provide the proper contact information may result in candidate’s removal from the judging process.
What makes a good nomination?
Think of this nomination as a job interview. A compelling nomination will:
- Get to the point! Many questions have a character limit of 2,000 characters (including spacing and punctuation). They suggest creating your responses in a word document and copying into the nomination form.
- It leaves out the unnecessary. Avoid fluff such as superfluous adjectives and empty praise. Don’t list an exhaustive resume of achievements/accomplishments; stick to the specific reasons why the individual deserves recognition.
- Make sure to highlight the big impact of your candidate’s work professionally, but don’t be repetitive.
- Quantify your answers. How much revenue did an innovation generate or what percentage of growth did the company recognize?
- Do not include links to your website or social media pages. These are deleted prior to delivering information to judges & waste your 2,000-character limit.
For more information, visit DSJ.
