Best Corporate Citizen Award, deadline Nov14

For the 10th consecutive year, the Best Corporate Citizen Award will be held in Colombo on November 14, 2012. The applications close on September 14, 2012.

The Best Corporate Citizen Award assesses the performance of a corporate and its interactions with its stakeholders in a number of areas spanning Environment, Employees, Customers & Suppliers, Community and Governance & Economic Contribution. Several Awards are presented to high performers.

The Special Projects category recognizes outstanding CSR projects under the themes Infrastructure, Education & Training, Projects to assist the Differently-abled, Health and Nutrition programmes (to combat HIV AIDS, Malaria), Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation, Sports & Recreation facilities, Empowering Women, Environment, Reconciliation activities in the North & East and Other projects (Support for senior citizens, orphanages, poverty alleviation).

It will provide an opportunity to organizations which carried out Corporate Social Responsibility projects during the year 2011/2012 to apply for the Best CSR Projects Awards.

The main objective of organizing this event is to encourage enterprises to focus on sustainability of businesses and to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.

Taking part in this competition would provide organizations an ideal opportunity to showcase the work that they do for the community and society. Applications could be obtained from www.chamber.lk.