On a blue pixelated gradient background, white trophy silhouettes flank the centered SAM logo at the top. Below that, bold white centered text reads “Resource Conservation Award,” and at the bottom small white letters spell out “Society for Advancement of Management Social Impact Awards.”

This award recognizes corporate resource conservation efforts and the ethical business values that embody the responsible planning, management, and deployment of resources. This includes creating shared values in the way that they conduct their business.

Successful organizations nominated create value for stakeholders, by delivering high quality services or products to customers, by providing a great place to work for employees and supporting the wellbeing, and development of their communities locally and globally.

Award winning organizations follow the letter and spirit of the law, while going beyond to contribute actively to enhance their communities in which they operate and care  in a way that supports the long-term success of business.

Nominees for this award must have a minimum of three years in operation.

Nomination is open to organizations operating in the public, private  or non-profit sectors. This Award will go to the outstanding organization who:

  • Has exemplified and provides detailed examples of how they create shared values in their business operations,
  • Provides an ethically sound, morally stable leadership environment for their employees to model,
  • Demonstrates examples of the organizations operational innovations and details the planning and management of resource policies that govern their corporate conservancy initiatives,
  • Shares how the organization has identified a challenge or problem within the community served as a role model for other groups in developing and adapting to meet the obstacle head on.

Nomination Summary

In a summary of no more than 750 words, please identify the organization and the market of operation. Please include the organizations key achievements or success factors that are relevant to the industry or marketplace.

Nomination Details

In no more than 1500 words, please tell our awards committee why the nominee should be named the winner of the Corporate Conservancy Award. Nominations are primarily evaluated by the criteria listed below. In an effort to maximize the chances of a successful nomination, please make sure to tailor your response to connect to as many of the identified criteria as possible. Our committee understands that no two ventures are the same and a successful nomination will not necessarily contain all of the criteria identified.

Provide examples of how the organization has made an impact to their community through their initiatives and conservancy programming and policies. • Detail any examples where the organization has led the charge in creating change in their community. • Describe the shared values the organization has adopted and their impact on employee and community development. • Share how the organization has implemented change internally in developing solutions for operational challenges. • How does the nominees values align with their stakeholders and community and what are their measures of success with regards to sustainability. • Define the nominees approach to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. • Provide details of any out of the box solutions that connected a path forward while addressing a community need that also improved the organization in some way. • Describe challenges in being a responsible steward of resources on the operations of the organization or the employees of the organization, or both and how were those challenges overcome. • Describe how the organizations commitment to responsibility, stewardship and conservancy was a challenge. What impact, if any, did that challenge have on the policies and procedures of the organization. • Provide a specific example of how the organization is a role model for others to adopt a conservancy driven leadership model. • Briefly highlight the organizations plan for growth and a explanation of how incorporation of the needs of the community will be evaluated in the conservancy led values of the business. • Identify how the organization look for partners and collaborators to bring responsibility, stewardship, and conservancy to the forefront of the stakeholders of the organization and the community overall. • Share a story of how the organization has partnered or made an impact within the community.