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Applications for Business Excellence Awards Being Accepted

081222_gbc.jpgThe Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is inviting submissions for the 2009 Awards for Business Excellence, which will honor the unique and crucial contributions of companies implementing sophisticated, successful programs to fight disease. Winners of the Coalition’s awards have provided care and treatment for hundreds of thousands of employees, and reached millions more consumers with critical prevention and awareness messages, ending stigma and preventing new infections. Past winners include leading multinational companies such as Viacom, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and HBO. The Coalition’s recognition is designed to celebrate the biggest successes as well as to engage more companies in the fight as part of a coordinated international business movement. The deadline for submissions is February 23, 2009 and winners will be notified by April 30, 2009. Please note that only for-profit companies are eligible to submit applications. Winning programs will be honored with a presentation at an awards on June 24 at the culmination of a two-day conference in Washington, DC that will bring together high-level actors from the public and private sector leading the global fight to end the three epidemics. In addition to indispensable networking opportunities designed to build new multi-sector collaborations, the conference will deliver practical tools and strategies to ensure that private sector initiatives on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria remain high on the corporate agenda, achieve greater impact and become more cost-effective. Awards will be granted in six categories: 1. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Workplace Program – Awarded to a company for combating HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria through a comprehensive workforce-focused program. Applications will also be welcomed for programs that incorporate interventions for two or more of the diseases, as well as for programs in which the disease interventions are part of a comprehensive wellness approach. 2. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Community Investment – Awarded to a company that expands HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria interventions beyond its own workforce and operations to reach the broader community. Applications are welcomed from company-implemented intervention programs as well as community-focused philanthropic initiatives. 3. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Core Competence – Awarded to a company that best applies its individual core competencies skills, products, services, or people to facilitate action on one or more of the three diseases. 4. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Women & Girls – Awarded to a program that directly addresses the needs and vulnerabilities of women and/or girls, engages women in program activities or directly confronts the gender inequalities that drive disease transmission and impede care-seeking. 5. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Performance Measurement (NEW in 2009) -Awarded to a company that has actively developed an HIV/AIDS, TB or malaria program with a robust monitoring and evaluation component. Preference will be given to programs where the evaluation has already assessed impact and results. 6. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Partnership and Collective Action (NEW in 2009) – Awarded to companies achieving exceptional results through partnerships or collective actions among businesses and/or across sectors. Preference will be given to standard-setting programs with outstanding use of complementary competencies. Applications will be accepted from a single company applying on behalf of a partnership or team and/or from the full team collectively. Eligible programs should focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or some combination of all three, and may include connection to a larger public health initiative. To learn more about the awards process and to download an application form visit the GBC website at gbcimpact.org.

Message received by Covalence | Region: Global | Company: Viacom, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola Co., HBO | Source: Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria

 

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