Nominate a Campaign for the 2017 UK Impact Award!

We invite you to submit nominations for the fourth annual Care2 Impact Award, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both.

The winning organization will receive the UK Impact Award and a cash donation of ‎£1,000 from Care2. The runners up will each receive the Care2 Innovation Award. Care2 will make a ‎£200 donation to each of these organizations. The awards will be presented in March at the Campaigning Forum 2017 in Oxford.

The deadline for nominations is 15:00 (GMT) on Saturday, 11th February, 2017. 

Five finalists will be selected by a panel of judges from the pool of nominations. Check back on Monday, 20th February to cast your vote for one of the finalists.

The judges will consider four main criteria in picking these finalists.

1. Innovation. Did this campaign introduce valuable new ideas and approaches to the nonprofit sector?
   
   
2. Influence. Did the initiative produce a ripple effect to influence and benefit other professionals in the sector?
   
   
3. “Impact Delta.” Is there a quantifiably large difference between the “before” and the “after” of campaign – measurable in fundraising dollars, or the quantity and quality of advocacy victories won, or the number of citizens participating in a cause? [Note that a proportionally large impact at a small organization is just as important as a big impact at a large organization.]
   
   
4. Advancing The Cause. Did this campaign help accomplish something that advanced their cause(s) meaningfully, such as via organizing or winning advocacy victories? Or by providing the funds needed to fuel campaigns that won victories?
   
   

This year's judges are:

Johnny Chatterton

Johnny is the co-founder and Executive Director of Bootcamp. Johnny was a founding campaigner at 38 Degrees where he ran the Save our Forests campaign and the campaign to protect the NHS. After that he moved to Change.org to work with campaigns teams in 18 countries as Director of Campaign Innovation, and was Senior Campaigns Advisor at SumofUs.org until October 2014.

Hayley Cull
Hayley is Head of Campaigns and Advocacy at Unicef UK. She has more than 10 years’ experience working in advocacy and communications roles in the UK and Australia, leading campaigning, political strategy, media and digital engagement. She has been at Unicef UK for almost five years, in which time she has successfully campaigned to protect child refugees in Calais, secure a global UN target to end violence against children, strengthen UK law to better protect trafficked children, and other issues related to children’s rights in the UK and around the world.

Jon Quinn

Jon has over 14 years’ experience of communications and campaigns having worked in politics and in the charity sector. Jon is currently Head of Campaigns at Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. Jon is a Trustee of Refugee Action.

Hanna Thomas

Hanna Thomas is a Campaign Director at SumOfUs.org, a worldwide movement of consumers, workers, and investors working together to hold corporations accountable. She is also the Co-Founder of iStreetWatch.co.uk, a tool that maps and tracks racist and xenophobic street harassment across the UK. She is based in London. 

Eva Watkinson

Eva manages the Campaigns Team at ActionAidUK, currently focusing on women's rights and tax justice. She has almost ten years’ experience in campaigning and specifically public mobilisation, much of which has been focused on ActionAid’s tax justice campaign, including campaigning for national, regional and international policy change and targeting corporates directly. Eva recently took a secondment and spent some months working with colleagues in Zambia to develop their national tax justice campaign. She is also a Board member of Positive Money, campaigning for financial and monetary reform in the UK.

James White

James has campaigned for the charity Guide Dogs (www.guidedogs.org.uk/campaigns) for the past six years, heading up the Campaigns and Public Affairs team for the past three. In that time there have been important campaign wins to improve the lives of people with sight loss, securing tougher sentences for people whose dogs attack guide dogs, making buses more accessible, and ensuring quiet vehicles can be detected. Key to their success has been the involvement of people with sight loss in seeking to influence decision makers, and their creativity is frequently praised by politicians.

James’ team won the 2016 Care2 Impact Award for the way they involved supporters in their work to put a stop to inconsiderate pavement parking (which can often force guide dog owners into the road).

In his spare time he likes Parkrun and eating out – one helps to balance out the other. You can find him tweeting @tweetfromchaff.

Thanks to all of you who participate in the nomination process.

Questions regarding the voting process? Please email us at events@care2team.com. Thanks!