Award Criteria – Honouring an individual or organization who participate in a variety of corporate and community fundraising initiatives that strives for and promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation or tolerance: any level of involvement in community events, projects, efforts or organizations that promote or celebrate tolerance and contribute to diversity awareness and inclusivity in the community and workplace.

Each nomination should represent and describe the diversity-related activities accomplished in one or more of the following categories:

• Leadership – Serves as a mentor and demonstrates by example how to embrace inclusion.   Leads efforts to celebrate and promote people’s ability to influence their organization culture, community, or other appropriate network to transcend tolerance.
• Multicultural Outreach – Demonstrates dedication and continuing commitment to advocating, raising issues of diversity and protecting civil and human rights (ex: civil rights, humanitarian, etc.).   Gets involved in areas of improving services and product needs, as well as preferences of diverse consumer bases to develop socio-economic opportunities.
• Community Involvement and Diversity – Within philanthropic activities, leads the development of innovative or contemporary measures to fight discrimination and prejudice and the effects of past discrimination, and/or fosters positive communication and actively promotes inter-group relations among persons of different races, ages, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religious backgrounds, or physical and mental abilities to promote an overall inclusive work environment,(ex: Pride, Social Justice, LGBTQ2S, Multicultural, etc).