Awards Application

To be considered, the company/organization or individual nominated must show strong evidence of specific work that accomplishes one or more of the following:

• Significantly promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, and cultural competency development among the company/organization and/or within the community of West Des Moines and/or region at large.
• Addresses important areas of diversity, equity and inclusion such as recruitment of talent, retention of employees, organizational work climate and/or community outreach.
• Leads initiatives in capturing outcomes of increased awareness, understanding or promoting diversity at your organization and in the community.
• Implements steps toward fostering diversity in the workplace with programs that maximize the potential of all people.
• Creates partnerships between managers and employees to resolve diversity workplace issues.
• Promotes diversity in the workplace and/or in the community.
• Improves cultural competency through company/organization and/or community initiatives.
• If you are a company, you have a supplier diversity program and/or you work with suppliers of color and they are included in your purchasing plan & pipelines OR you are deliberately working on this area and ways to help grow the economics of the BIPOC community.