Community Impact

It’s time to vote for the 2024 ECO Community Impact award winner! This People’s Choice Award recognizes individuals, groups, and communities that consistently demonstrate their dedication to Canada’s environmental growth and make a positive impact on the environmental workforce through their actions. This award is open to individuals, teams, or organizations to shine a spotlight on projects with a positive environmental impact completed within the last 18 months. 

Award Nomination Criteria

This award category is open to individuals, teams or organizations to shine a spotlight on community-minded projects with an environmental impact that they have been working on over the last 18 months or have been completed.

Rules surrounding nominations:

• Must not be nominated in the Top Employer category.
• The project must have been completed within the last 18 months or in progress toward completion.
• Employees of nominated organizations/groups are not allowed to vote.

All nominations must include the following:

Submission/Project Name

A project summary (750 words max) that includes the following:

• Bio of the person(s)/organization/group submitting the nomination
• Details of how the nomination aligns with ECO Canada’s values of being a steward for the Canadian environmental workforce across all industries and promoting and driving responsible, sustainable economic growth while also ensuring that environmental care and best practice is a priority
• Details on the nomination’s environmental community impact (feel-good projects that have an environmental benefit)
• Date of the project (timeline and/or date of completion)
• A 3-5-minute video detailing the community impact and/or environmental contribution