Early Entry Deadline June 6th 2025!

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5 Reasons to Enter the 5th Annual Anthem Awards

Submit your impact work before the Early Entry Deadline on Friday, June 6, 2025

Entries are open for the 5th Annual Anthem Awards!

From the frontlines to boardrooms, on camera or in the field, activists and impact professionals are demonstrating an unwavering commitment to progress. Despite new challenges that are testing our global resolve for impact, we’re inspired by the people, companies and organizations that are tirelessly building a better future. Our mission during the 5th Annual Anthem Awards is to Champion Your Resilience and amplify the ways you continuously show up.  

The Anthem Awards accepts work across five areas of impact, made to address the following causes: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging; Education Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology and Sustainability, Environment & Climate.

By participating in The Anthem Awards, you can:

1. Join Our Community Of Industry Leaders

By participating in The Anthem Awards, you put your organization in a position to stand alongside inspiring advocates, movement leaders, and impact-driven companies. The Anthem Awards has honored a vast range of incredible individuals, teams, and companies, including Planned Parenthood, The Daily Show, Google, DEPT, Everytown for Gun Safety, Rare Beauty, Johns Hopkins University, Sesame Workshop, AARP, and PepsiCo.

2. Honor & Elevate Your Team’s Work

In the impact space, it isn’t easy to stop to celebrate progress when our goals and visions are still down the road. Putting your work on the Anthem Awards stage champions your team’s efforts and shows your appreciation for their commitment to creating change. Winning an Anthem Award celebrates the contributions of everyone involved in your project and also helps attract and recruit mission-driven talent to your team.

3. Drive Awareness for Your Cause

Winning an Anthem Award provides an opportunity to stand out and reach new audiences on a global stage. From the Anthem Community Voice Celebration online to our Winners Summit, you’ll have a chance to share your work with the global Anthem community. The Anthem Awards has received over 1.84 billion media impressions and received coverage by notable media outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, and Variety.

4. Have Your Work Seen by Leaders in the Impact Industry

The Anthem Awards is judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a membership body of intellectually diverse leaders and executives across the impact industry. Judges include Haven Ley, Chief Strategy Officer, Pivotal Ventures; C.D. Glin, President, PepsiCo Foundation & Global Head of Social Impact, PepsiCo; Wendy R. Weiser, Vice President, Democracy, Brennan Center for Justice; Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code; Philippa Cross, Sustainability Lead, BarkleyOKRP; and  Trovon Williams, Sr. Vice President of Marketing & Communications, NAACP.

5. Recognize & Build Your Community

Winning an Anthem Award doesn’t only celebrate your team, but also the customers, donors, volunteers, partners, and community members that have stood by and supported your efforts. Having your work recognized by the Anthem Awards also creates new opportunities for your work to be seen by potential partners.

This is your chance to amplify your advocacy on a global platform and stand among impact leaders, movers, and changemakers. Enter the 5th Annual Anthem Awards before the Early Entry Deadline on June 6, 2025!

If you have questions about the Anthem Awards and the entry process, please contact Kara Cleary at info@anthemawards.com  or + 1 (212) 627-8601.

“Being a part of the Anthem community has validated our team's incredibly hard work and made us feel so proud to be a part of a fantastic community of winners.” - Allie Mahler, VP of Strategic Partnerships & Community at NationSwell

Honor your work in the 5th Annual Anthem Awards to Champion Your Resilience and amplify the ways you are changing the world. 

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To participate in the program using early entry pricing submit your work before our Early Entry Deadline on Friday, June 6, 2025. 

Patagonia – Don’t Buy This Jacket

Patagonia has put social impact at the core of their brand mission and values from the start, and their iconic Don’t Buy This Jacket campaign demonstrates how brands can use their platform to make an impact — or better yet, to help reduce our impact. This 2011 ad ran in the New York Times on Black Friday, making a lasting impression for its bold message addressing the issue of consumerism head on and asking readers to take the Common Threads Initiative pledge to reduce, repair, reuse, recycle, and reimagine a world where we take only what nature can replace.

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Ad Council’s Love Has No Labels Movement

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Read our Q&A with Heidi Arthur, the Ad Council’s Chief Campaign Development Officer on the team behind LHNL collaborates with partners to combat implicit bias—from crafting PSAs to driving viewers to take action, to how brands and companies should approach corporate social responsibility with authenticity.

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