Champion Your Resilience By Entering The 5th Annual Anthem Awards
The call for submissions is now open for companies, organizations and individuals. The Early Entry Deadline is Friday, June 6, 2025.
New York, N.Y., April 8, 2025 — The premier award recognizing social impact work launched its 5th Annual Call for Entries today, doubling down on their efforts to uplift great work and Champion the Resilience of the impact industry. The awards recognize work across Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Education, Art & Culture, Health, Human & Civil Rights, Humanitarian Action & Services, Responsible Technology, and Sustainability, Environment & Climate.
The Early Entry Deadline to submit work for consideration is Friday, June 6th, 2025. The submission site is open at anthemawards.com.
In its fifth year, The Anthem Awards continues to expand the International Academy of Digital Arts & Science to include the most esteemed and talented experts in their fields across healthcare, climate and environment, tech, civil rights, the justice system and more. Newest members of the academy include Chris Crawford, Founder, Elite Media; Philipa Cross Sustainability Lead, BarkleyOKRP; Chirlie Felix, Managing Director, FSG; Heather Malenshek, CMO, Land O’Lakes, Inc.; Cynthia Turner, Assistant Dean & Chief Diversity Officer, The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business; Myescha Joell, Owner & Founder, Morris Street Media; Garrison Hayes, Video Correspondent, Mother Jones; Dom Kelly, Co-Founder, President & CEO, New Disabled South; Rodney Harrell, Phd, VP, Family Home & Community, AARP; Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, CEO, Climate Critical Operations; Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association; Sophie Morgan, Co-Founder, Making Space; and more.
They will join existing judges: Daniel Dae Kim, Actor, Producer and Activist; Mitchell Baker, CEO & Chairwoman, Mozilla; Keely Cat-Wells, Founder & CEO, Making Space; Lisa Sherman, President & CEO, Ad Council; C.D. Glin, President, PepsiCo Foundation & Global Head of Social Impact, PepsiCo; Matti Navellou, Senior Vice President, Head of ICONIQ Impact, ICONIQ Capital; Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO, GLAAD; Nicholas Thompson, CEO, The Atlantic; Haven Ley, Sr. Vice President of Program Strategy, Investments and Communications and the Chief Strategy Officer, Pivotal Ventures; Dr. Deepmala Mahla, Chief Humanitarian Officer, CARE; Greg Propper, President, Propper Daley; Kim Getty, President, Deutsch; and Jennifer Lotito, President & Chief Operating Officer, (RED).
“Progress is rarely linear, but I don’t think anyone in the impact space expected the breadth and number of new challenges facing the space this year,” said Patricia McLoughlin, General Manager of the Anthem Awards. “We are at a pivotal moment and it is more important than ever to uplift great social impact work and champion the resilience of this space.”
To expand the scope of mission-driven work recognized, The Anthem Awards is introducing a suite of new categories including; Best Creator Collaboration, Donor & Volunteer Engagement, Short-Form Video, Corporate Social Responsibility, and more. Work is accepted across five areas of impact work including: Awareness, Fundraising & Resource Development, Community Engagement, Product, Innovation or Service, and Team & Internal Initiatives.
Founded by the organizers of The Webbys, The Anthem Awards are the largest and most comprehensive award honoring social impact work, with more than 2,300 projects entered from 43 countries around the globe last year. Organizations and individuals that enter will have the opportunity to join past Anthem Winners like PepsiCo, The Daily Show, Sesame Workshop, Vote.org, Rare Beauty, The Elton John AIDS Foundation, Everytown for Gun Safety, Salesforce, UNICEF, Google, and many more.
Entries for the 5th Annual Anthem Awards will be accepted through Friday, August 1st, 2025. Preferred pricing is available until the Early Entry Deadline on Friday, June 6, 2025. Complete details on the submission process are available at anthemawards.com.
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ABOUT THE ANTHEM AWARDS
The Anthem Awards celebrate purpose & mission-driven work from people, companies and organizations worldwide. As the most comprehensive award spanning various industries and social impact categories, causes to be recognized include: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Sustainability, Climate & Environment; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Health; Education, Art & Culture; and Responsible Technology. The awards honor the world’s best purpose and mission-driven work from for and not-for-profit organizations alike. The Anthem Awards foundational partners include the Ad Council, NRDC, Mozilla, GLAAD, World Wildlife Fund, Born This Way Foundation, Omidyar Network and XQ Institute. Media Partners include The Female Quotient and Sustainable Brands.
ABOUT THE WEBBY AWARDS
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites and Mobile Sites; Video; Advertising, Media and PR; Apps, dApps & Software, Social; Podcasts; Games and Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual. Established in 1996, The Webby Awards received nearly 14,000 entries from all 50 states and over 70 countries worldwide this year. The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences IADAS.