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Each year, The Trust for the Americas and Organization of American States (OAS) present the Corporate Citizen of the Americas (CCA) Award to a corporation that has initiated a program in the Americas to benefit the community in which it operates and whose actions can serve as a model to facilitate socially responsible practices and actions by other corporations.
Initiatives are judged for their innovation, sustainability, replicability and impact and can be in any of the three following areas:
Community Involvement: Including community partnerships, education programs, corporate philanthropy, the donation of products and services to the local community and/or volunteerism.
Environmental protection: Initiatives could include reassessment of business practices, development of sustainable products and services and/or elimination of waste and emissions.
Health promotion: Including measures aimed at improving the health and wellness of employees and/or the community.
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NOTE: THE NEW DEADLINE TO RECEIVE THE CCA AWARD APPLICATIONS IS APRIL 18TH, 2007!
PRESS RELEASE
TRUST FOR THE AMERICAS/OAS
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE CCA AWARD 2007
Washington D.C, February 2007. The Trust for the Americas and the Organization of American States (OAS) has begun accepting applications for the Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award to be given at the on June 2007 in the margins of the XXXVII General Assembly of the Organization of American States where the regular session will bring together the hemisphere’s foreign ministers in Panama City, under the theme “Energy for Development”.
In the last decade, corporations have played an increasing role in developing solutions to overcome poverty in communities throughout the Americas. The Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award encourages this trend by formally recognizing a company that has initiated an innovative program which benefits the community in which it operates and can serve as a model to facilitate socially responsible practices and actions by other corporations.
Last year, the Trust Selection Committee selected Conoco Phillips as the Winner of the 2005-2006 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award for its “Empowering Guiria Fishermen to Become Entrepreneurs”, a successful public, private and not-for profit collaboration benefiting small-scale fishermen in the Gulf of Paria, Venezuela.
Furthermore, during the event, the Trust Selection Committee selected two corporations for giving a distinction. They both obtained an Honorable Mention in the 2005-2006 Corporate Citizen of the Americas. Falconbridge Dominicana receipt the mention for the work done by the Falconbridge Foundation and Starbucks Coffee Company was for the competition for the “Conservation of Coffee TM partnership between Starbucks and Conservation International.
The Trust’s Award Selection Committee for the last competition was comprised of distinguished leaders in the public and private sector from throughout the Hemisphere: Mrs. Amanda Blakeley, CSR Expert from the World Bank, Mrs. June Langston DeHart, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mr. James Fendell, President, Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America and Mrs. Sandra Honore, Former Chief of Staff of the Organization of American States and Mr. Peter Tinoco, President of the Cisneros Foundation in Venezuela
This 2007 the Trust Selection Committee will select the award recipient and alternates. The Trust Selection Committee will review the qualifying nominees and select up to three finalists, to include one winner and two honorable mentions. It will include former officials from Latin America, CEO’s of multinational corporations and experts in the field of corporate social responsibility. Nominations and applications for the Award will be accepted by the Trust for the Americas until April 12th, 2007. To obtain an application, please refer to the Trust for the Americas website at www.trustfortheamericas.org, or send inquiries by email to aalvarez@oas.org
The event will be part of the thirty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly of OAS and it will bring together distinguished guests, including U.S. government officials, former heads of state, representatives from countries throughout the hemisphere and important business and community leaders, to celebrate and encourage the continued commitment of the private sector to the betterment of the lives of all peoples of the Americas.
WHAT: CCA Award
WHEN: June 2007 in the margins of the XXXVII General Assembly of the Organization of American States
WHERE: Panama City
For more information contact:
Andrea Alvarez M.
PR& Marketing Director
Aalvarez@oas.org
202 458 3747
Melissa Verduzco
PR & Marketing Assistant
trustint2@oas.org
202 458 6145
How to Apply
Past Winners
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