The Halo Awards are North America’s highest honor for corporate social initiatives and cause marketing and showcase successful consumer engagement and employee engagement efforts. This year’s Halo Awards will be awarded at the Engage for Good Virtual Conference on May 25-27, 2021. These prestigious CSR, cause marketing and corporate social impact awards focus on initiatives in which brand purpose and social impact intersect to help build a better world and the bottom line.
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Meet The 2021 Golden Halo Award Winners (click each logo below to learn more)
| Meet the Category Finalists |
| One Gold and one Silver Halo Award winner will be announced in each category at the 2021 Engage for Good (Virtual) Conference. |
Activism/Advocacy Category
#VotaConmigo: Univision
Can’t Cancel Pride: A COVID-19 Relief Benefit for the LGBTQ+ Community: Procter & Gamble, iHeartMedia & nonprofit partners
Levi Strauss & Co. Vote Campaign: Levi Strauss & Co. & grantee partners
All For Farmers: Tillamook County Creamery Association & American Farmland Trust
Consumer Activated Corporate Donation Category
40th Anniversary Celebration: Disney & Make-A-Wish America
Go Back Give Back Challenge: goPuff & Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Turn Up! Fight Hunger: Discovery & Share Our Strength
USO Holidays & USS Christmas: Crown Media & USO
Consumer Donation Category
2020 Back2School Donation Drive: Old Navy & Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Dawnbringer Karma Fundraiser: Riot Games & ImpactAssets and nonprofit partners
Fox Presents The iHeart Living Room Concert for America: Fox & iHeartMedia & Feeding America and First Responders Children Foundation
Love’s Travel Stops Annual CMN Hospitals Campaign
Covid-19 Category
#SAVEWITHSTORIES: Scholastic & Save the Children and No Kid Hungry
Closing the Digital Divide: Verizon & Digital Promise
Bright Smiles, Bright Futures: Colgate Palmolive Company & nonprofit partners
Share A Square and Refreshingly Clean Slate: Cottonelle & United Way Worldwide
Education Category
Closing the Digital Divide: Verizon & Digital Promise
Empowering Educators: Pizza Hut & First Book
Solve for Tomorrow: Samsung & DonorsChoose
Vaping: Know The Truth: Kaiser Permanente & Truth Initiative, Everfi and American Heart Association
Employee Engagement Category
AI For Social Impact: Google & The Trevor Project
2020 Employee Engagement Initiatives: John Hancock
Neighborhood Grants: Starbucks
Pro Bono Challenge: Charles Schwab
Transforming The Trevor Project’s Volunteer Management System: PwC & The Trevor Project
Health Category
Budweiser #OneTeam: Anheuser-Busch & American Red Cross
GoGo squeeZ Fun Comes First: GoGo squeeZ & Laureus USA
Free Farmers Market: GAF & Interfaith Food Pantry Network
Vaping: Know The Truth: Kaiser Permanente & Truth Initiative, Everfi and American Heart Association
Inclusion Category
#VotaConmigo: Univision
Can’t Cancel Pride: A COVID-19 Relief Benefit for the LGBTQ+ Community: Procter & Gamble, iHeartMedia & nonprofit partners
Shave With Pride: Harry’s & The Trevor Project
School of Strength: WWE & Special Olympics
Social Services Category
Discovery RISE: Discovery, Inc. & Save The Children
Get vitamins here. Change lives everywhere.: Walgreens & Vitamin Angel Alliance, Inc.
Lyft Voting Access: Lyft & nonprofit partners
Mental Note: Harry’s & DoSomething.org
Social Impact Video Category
40th Anniversary Celebration: Disney & Make-A-Wish America
A Very Merry Veterans Thank You: ATCO & Homes For Heroes Foundation
Budweiser #OneTeam: Anheuser-Busch & American Red Cross
Share A Square: Cottonelle & United Way Worldwide
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PayPal
The inclusive mission to reimagine money and democratize financial services so people around the world can live more financially healthy and secure lives is at the heart of PayPal’s business. Since becoming an independent company again in 2015, PayPal has consistently and deliberately aligned its commitments, actions and strategic roadmap…
CARE USA
Seventy-five years ago, a small group of Americans mobilized to create the world’s first CARE Packages®. They knew that they could not stand on the sidelines while millions of Europeans faced hunger in the wake of World War II. Within a few months, they had delivered their first shipment of…
Day of Inclusion: Tim Hortons and Special Olympics Canada
Tim Hortons is a multinational restaurant chain and is Canada’s largest quick-service restaurant chain with more than 4,800 restaurants in 14 countries around the world. Tim Hortons sponsors a number of national sports properties in Canada as well as supports community-based initiatives including the Timbits Minor Sports Program that provides…
WE Teachers: Walgreens and WE
Since 2014, Walgreens and WE have partnered to drive positive impact in the United States and internationally in Kenya through various programs, ranging from retail activations to WE Day youth celebrations and WE Schools, an innovative series of experiential service-learning programs. With a shared mission around empowering youth, WE and…
Face Your Fierce: Abercrombie & Fitch and The Trevor Project
Since 1892, Abercrombie & Fitch has been a specialty retailer of quality apparel outerwear and fragrance designed to inspire global customers to be confident and feel comfortable. A staunch supporter of the LGBTQ community for years, A&F’s parent company A&F Co. has been recognized for 14 consecutive years with a…
Girls4Tech: Mastercard
Global payments company Mastercard uses science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) every day to help connect their payment network in 150 currencies across more than 210 countries and territories. Eighty percent of jobs in the next decade need some combination of STEM, yet only 30% of the STEM workforce…
The Power of One: Vivint Smart Home and Vivint Gives Back
Founded in 1999, Vivint provides smart home products including smart locks, lighting, cameras, thermostats and smart sensor and related services for the broad consumer market. Vivint has installed more than 30 million devices in homes throughout North America and its cloud-based smart home platform processes more than 1.3 billion events…
DSW Gives and Soles4Souls
Leading branded footwear and accessories retailer Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) has partnered with nonprofit Soles4Souls for ten years. In 2019, the partnership kicked into high gear and grew into a more robust customer engagement effort under the DSW Gives platform. The program originated with DSW turning to Soles4Souls to help…
Poptivism: PopSockets
David Barnett invented the earliest iteration of today’s PopGrip in 2010 to prevent his earbuds from tangling. Launched from his garage, PopSockets grew exponentially over the next seven years. Popsockets’ core products include phone grips, mounts and wallets, with wireless charging devices and on-the-go beauty products following close behind. The…
Creating Grief Ambassadors: New York Life and First Book
Recognizing the critical need to provide greater support to grieving children and their families, the New York Life Foundation established childhood bereavement as a funding focus area in 2008 and has invested nearly $50 million to bereavement organizations across the nation. The Foundation has served not only as a funder…
