CAF launches annual awards for corporate community investment
Howard Lake | 6 August 2006 | News
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has launched its 3rd Annual Companies and Communities Awards, designed to recognise and reward companies’ successful Corporate Community Investment (CCI) programmes, and to encourage organisations to boost their commitment to effective giving.
The CAF Companies and Communities Awards demonstrate best practice giving and innovation amongst companies making “a tangible and positive difference to the social, environmental and economic marketplace in which they operate”, according to CAF.
CAF’s Charity Trends 2006 recently reported that UK companies made cash and in-kind gifts valued at £1.1 billion to charities and communities in 2004/05. This represents a 15% increase on the previous year, and is the largest annual rise for some years.
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There are two categories in the Awards:
Effective Giving Award – recognising companies that use their resources ‘effectively’ to develop and implement a Community Investment Programme that delivers results and are shaping the future of community investment. Entries should demonstrate strong leadership and impact. This category looks at a company’s entire community programme.
Innovation Award – recognising companies who demonstrate that they have implemented an innovative community investment project. Applicants must be “at the cutting edge of community investment”. Judges will be looking for “radical and inspiring initiatives”.
Russell Prior, Executive Director of Company Services at CAF, said: “These awards are designed to inspire companies of all sizes, including SMEs, to invest in their communities. As corporate community investment increases, the lessons that we can learn from the Award winners will become greater and greater”.
CAF’s services to companies include providing advice on improving their community investment.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.