We know you’ve been busy. Between work, family, and maintaining your social life it can be hard to fit everything in. That is why we’re offering you the following guide on How to Enter The International Business Awards in 10 Minutes or Less. In just 10 minutes you can validate all the hard work you’ve put in this year and potentially win a Stevie®, one of the most coveted trophies on the planet!

The final entry deadline has been extended to July 15 and there are over 250 business awards categories from which to choose. It’s not too late. Following are a number of ways you can enter the IBAs in 10 minutes or less, get the recognition your company deserves, and get back to your busy, high-powered life:

Repurpose Nominations From Other Awards Programs
The submission requirements for the International Business Awards are fairly open-ended, and there is a wide variety of categories from which to choose. If you've entered any other awards programs this year or written about your organization’s accomplishments, you can repurpose that for the IBAs. Most categories require only the submission of an essay up to 650 words and a bullet-list summary of the achievements discussed in the essay. Add in any new accomplishments since you last wrote the submissions and you are ready to enter.

Repurpose Your Press Releases and White Papers
It's likely you've already described in detail your organization's achievements, innovations, your products and services, and your marketing and PR campaigns, etc. through PR materials during the year. You’ve been trumpeting your successes through press releases and white papers. Look through what you’ve produced in the past year and see what accomplishments stand out. Is it your organization as a whole? An executive or a new employee? Whatever it is, combine your award-worthy texts that you’ve already written to complete the short essay. Note that the 2015 IBAs will recognize your achievements since the beginning of 2014.

Repurpose Your Press Clippings
With every IBA submission you are encouraged to attach any number of press clippings, work samples, video clips, photographs, etc. to your essay to help paint a picture for the judges. If one or more of your press clipping stands out as having a compelling story and going above and beyond industry standards, it will be simple to use that as the basis for your essay.

Hire a Consultant
Did you know that there are a number of consultancies that specialize in preparing and submitting award nominations on behalf of their clients? Several of them have been remarkably successful over the years in winning Stevie Awards for their clients. Contact us if you'd like a referral to a consultant who can take over the entry process for you.

Enter the Publication Awards
If your annual report, house organ, sales / marketing brochures, E-book, or business book was outstanding this year why not submit it for a Stevie Award? Submissions to these categories only require the publication itself and a 125-word summary describing the work’s purpose and results. It’s as simple as that!

Submit Media Work
Sometimes you hope to win a Stevie for a specific reason - for a major achievement, or for a member of your team - but sometimes it’s the smaller milestones that lead to greater success. If that's the case, take a look at the categories in the IBAs for videos, apps, websites, and live events. It's really easy to enter these categories. These categories generally require only a short essay of up to 125 words, describing the nominated work's purpose and results to date, and the nominated video or app, etc., itself.

Resubmit a Nomination From Another Stevie Awards Program
Did you have success with a nomination in the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, or the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards? One Stevie Awards competition has nothing to do with another, and resubmitting a nomination from one program to this year's IBAs is a valid strategy followed by many organizations. Update your Stevie Awards submission from the previous year with new endeavors and accomplishments.

Contact Us for Help
If you’re confused about where to begin, contact us for help. We will be happy to assist you in choosing the category that’s right for you. Contact us by email at help@stevieawards or telephone at +1 703-547-8389. Tell us what your organization wants to be recognized for, and we'll suggest the best category for your nomination.

Ready to enter The 2015 International Business Awards?  The first step is getting the entry kit. You can get yours via email here.

No additional late fees charged

The Stevie® Awards, organizer of The International Business Awards, announced today that the final entry deadline for The 12th annual IBAs has been extended to July 15. The IBAs are the top business awards program and attract nominations from organizations in more than 50 nations and territories each year.

“We’ve received so many requests for individual deadline extensions that we’ve decided to extend the deadline for everyone,” said Stevie Awards president Michael Gallagher. The original final deadline was June 10. Gallagher emphasizes that no additional late fees will be charged for entries submitted through July 15, and late entrieswill not be penalized in any way in the judging process.” All organizations now have an additional four weeks to prepare and submit their entries in hopes of winning a Stevie award for their achievements.”

All individuals and organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. The 2015 awards will honor achievements since the beginning of 2014.  Entry details are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

•Management Awards

•Company of the Year Awards

•Customer Service Awards

•Human Resources Awards

•Information Technology Awards

•Marketing Awards

•New Product Awards

•Public Relations Awards

•Website Awards, Smartphone and Tablet Apps, and other Media Awards

There are several new Company/Organization categories that don’t require entry fees, including four Startup of the Year categories and Energy Industry Innovation of the Year, a category that will recognize singular innovations in energy-related technology, production, conservation, storage or delivery.

“With the feedback that we received from past winners and judging committees, we developed new awards categories this year, and more than ever before to reach a broad range of organizations,” explains Michael Gallagher. Other new categories include Woman of the Year (in the Management categories), Branded Content Campaign of the Year (in the Marketing categories), and Best Business Book or Best E-Book (in the Publication categories).”

Stevie Award winners will be selected during a judging process by more than 200 professionals worldwide. Winners will be announced on August 12, and the awards will be presented at a gala awards ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto, Canada, on October 16. 

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Grand Stevie Award Winners Announced on 5 June at the InterContinental Hotel

Winners in the second annual Asia-Pacific Stevie® Awards, the only awards program to recognize achievement in business throughout the entire Asia-Pacific region, were presented with their awards at a banquet at the InterContinental Hotel in Shanghai, China.  The list of Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners is available at http://Asia.StevieAwards.com.

See photos from the event on the Stevie Awards Flickr page.

Over 180 professionals attended the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards banquet. Stevie Award winners were from 13 nations including Australia, China, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Nominations of more than 300 organizations were considered by the judges this year.

Grand Stevie Award winners were announced at the ceremony. Members of the first-round judging committees selected a Grand Stevie Award winner for category groups from the highest rated nomination by country. The Grand Stevie Winners are:

-PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, as Most Honored Organization of the Year

-Ju Man Park, Republic of Korea Geumcheon Police Station, for the Highest-Rated Nomination From Korea

-Goldenway Precious Metals Limited , for the Highest-Rated Nomination From China

-Nu Skin Enterprises Singapore Pte Ltd, for the Highest-Rated Nomination From Singapore

-SYSPRO Software, for the Highest-Rated Nomination From Australia

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia has won five Gold Stevie Awards, the top prize in a category, more than any other organization. Zomato NZ Media Private Limited (New Zealand) are runners up, with three Gold Stevie wins. Winners of two Gold Stevie Awards include DHL Express NZ Customer Services (New Zealand), iTalent Corporation (multiple Asian offices), Mater Health Services (Australia), Stephen Gill Associates (Singapore), and Tecsia Lubricants (Singapore).

The Stevie Awards are considered to be the world's premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in the workplace over the past 13 years in programs such as The International Business Awards and The American Business Awards. 

The Stevie Award trophy, made by the company that makes the Oscar and other major awards, is among the world's most coveted prizes.

Visit http://Asia.StevieAwards.com to learn more about the program.

The 12^th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business is now accepting entries, and in more categories than ever before. All female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run, worldwide, are eligible to be nominated. The early-bird entry deadline is July 22.

When people think of ‘business awards’ they most often think of awards for overall companies or executives, especially Fortune 500 companies. The Stevie Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace for organizations of every size, including media produced by or for women. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business has categories for Websites and Blogs, Events, Apps, and Videos.

Entries in these categories require the following:

1. An essay of up to 125 words describing the nominated work: its purpose and results to date.
2. The nominated work itself, which you should upload to our server via the new uploading tool on our online entry form.
3. Optionally, you can provide creative and production credits for the work, such as writers, creative directors, and programmers.

Website or Blog of the Year: Recognizing excellence in websites and blogs created and maintained by or for women. There is no eligibility period requirement for this category - it doesn't matter when the site or blog was first published.

Event of the Year: Recognizing events of all types staged for women since July 1, 2014.

Smartphone or Tablet App of the Year: Recognizing excellence in smartphone and tablet apps produced by or for women since July 1, 2014.

Video of the Year: Recognizing excellence in videos produced by or for women since July 1, 2014.

Last year’s winner in the App of the Year category was created by Infant & Toddler Forum of London. The Infant & Toddler Forum provides reliable, evidence-based information and practical tools to support parents in making the right choices when feeding toddlers. Their ‘Tot It Up’ toddler food calculator app was released in 2013 so parents can monitor the food intake and activity of their children aged 1-4. Especially for first time parents, it can be confusing trying to figure out what the best foods are for your child. The app provides a personal analysis of the diet of the child and provides suggestions to ensure the child is getting the right balance of food groups, and works around any food allergies. Through the app, parents are also able to question children’s health professionals if need be.

Fabulous@50 won a Stevie Award for Event of the Year. They empower, educate and inspire women over the age of 40 through events, magazines and an online and offline membership. They host a Fabulous@50 Experience and Martini Party every year in November in Edmonton, Alberta. The event brings products, services, and speakers that are chosen specifically for this demographic. One attendee said “I would like thank Fabulous@50 for hosting such an important event - like many others, I gained so much! The Fab at 50 Martini Party offered many gifts - laughter, learning and networking, to mention a few. The show was very well organized with a display of a great variety of products and services. To be in the presence of so many strong, supportive, successful women was nothing short of inspiring!”

To enter the Media Awards categories in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, first get your entry kit at http://www.stevieawards.com/women.

The Stevie® Awards is accepting entries through June 10 for The 12th Annual International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition. The IBAs attract nominations from organizations in more than 50 nations and territories each year.

We want to share a tip with you about how your organization can apply to win two Stevie Awards by submitting only one nomination. Nominating your organization in the Company of the Year categories of The International Business Awards has an important added benefit: Every organization nominated in those 34 industry-specific categories will automatically be included in voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies. 

The People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies is a worldwide public vote in which your customers, employees, fans, and followers may vote for your organization in one or more industry-specific category. Yes, it's a popularity contest, to run alongside the adjudicated peer-reviewed judging that will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners in each category. Voting will open to the public on August 13 and will close on September 11.

We'll share tools with People's Choice nominees to help them get as many votes as they possibly can. People's Choice winners will be presented with crystal People's Choice Stevie Award trophies at the IBA awards gala in Toronto, Canada on October 23.

To be included in people’s choice voting, you must first submit one or more nominations to the 34 Company of the Year categories. Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories in the 2015 competition include:

a. An essay of up to 650 words describing the nominated organization's achievements since January 1, 2014

b. In bullet-list form (up to 150 words), a brief summary of up to ten (10) of the nominated organization's chief achievements since January 1, 2014

c. Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges

All individuals and organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to The International Business Awards Company of the Year categories. The final entry deadline is June 10. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Here's what a past People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Company winner had to say:

Globe Telecom bagged the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Telecommunications Company after getting the highest number of votes cast through online voting. “The award proves once again that Globe Telecom is a trusted global brand which our customers and stakeholders are proud of. This also proves we are on track in pursuing a business strategy that provides innovative products and services that are relevant to our customers,” Globe President & CEO Ernest Cu said.

The first part of The 2015 American Business Awards ceremony will take place on June 22 at the Fairmont Millennium Park Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Awards in all categories except those for app and new products and services will be presented. (The app and new product awards will be presented during a second ceremony on September 11 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco.

BizTalkRadio’s broadcast will begin with a 10-minute preshow segment at 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET. Listen live on the BizTalk website http://BizTalkRadio.com, or download their free app for iPhone or Android and listen to the Stevie Award presentations.

Awards presentations during the 5:00 pm CT / 6:00 pm ET ceremony earlier that evening will be recorded and broadcast on Thursday evening, June 25.

More than 3,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Customer Service Team of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Live Event of the Year, and Human Resources Department of the Year, among others.

BizTalkRadio is the home for your business. Whether you're an entrepreneur, small business owner or just managing your family's assets, BizTalkRadio can help.

BizTalkRadio is dedicated to shows about:

• Sales & Marketing
• Management
• Finance
• Work-Life Balance

For press credentials for the June 22 awards banquet or for more information, contact Maggie@StevieAwards.com

Sponsors and partners of The 2015 American Business Awards include: BizTalkRadio, CallidusCloud, Engility, Fareportal, John Hancock, PetRays, and Softpro.

 

The second annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards presentations will take place this Friday evening in Shanghai, China.  Tickets are still on sale.

This Friday, June 5 at the InterContinental Hotel Shanghai Pudong,  winners will be presented with their Stevie Awards in categories for websites awards, apps awards, IT awards, new products and services awards, management awards, company awards, marketing awards, and more. Grand Stevie Award winners will be announced at the event and published online on Saturday.

We're expecting more than 180 executives from nominated organizations to attend.  Get a PDF of the awards banquet program book here.

So who's coming this to this Friday's awards gala?  Here's the confirmed list as of this moment.

Bangkok Health Research Center, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS)

BIG IDEA LAB

Brcomm

Burson-Marsteller Hong Kong

Chinadirect Sourcing

CPA Australia

Delta Air Lines Inc

DHL Express

Diligent Corporation

E-Plus Entertainment Productions (M) Sdn Bhd

FrieslandCampina AMEA PTE LTD

FTI Consulting

GeiserMaclang

Goldenway Precious Metals Limited

Green Bulb Public Relations, Inc.

Hanwooboard

Hong Kong Jockey Club

Hutchison Global Communications Limited

HUYA Bioscience International LLC

iPai (Shanghai) Auction Company Ltd

Isagenix Australia

Karmer Pty Ltd (trading as Bondi Chai Latte)

KCFU

KEPCO

Keumho Trading Co. ltd

Korea Foodservice Industry Association

LOEN Entertainment

Maynilad Water Services, Inc.

Media Image Newspaper

MetLife Asia

Ministry of Strategy and Finance

NEWSIS

Nu Skin Enterprises Singapore Pte Ltd

Nu Skin Korea

Ooredoo

Opmantek

Oracle

PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD

Philips

PT. TELEKOMUNIKASI INDONESIA, TBK

rogenSi Limited

RXP Services

Sellers Agent Co.

Seoul Geumcheon Police Station

Seoul Metropolitian Government

SIDM

Stephen Gill Associates

Strategic Public Relations Group

Syfon Systems

Tecsia Lubricants Private Limited

VALTES Co., Ltd.

Visayan Electric Co.Inc

Wanxiang America Corporation

Weber Shandwick

Zuora

Questions about the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards?  Don't hesitate to contact us. 

The 2016 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards will open for entries later this year.  Sign up to receive the entry kit and it will be emailed to you when the program opens.

The first German Stevie Awards were presented this past March in Berlin. Nominations of more than 200 organizations were considered for this year’s competition. The full text of the Gold Stevie winning entries is now published online.

 

ACCESS THE GOLD STEVIE-WINNING ENTRIES HERE.

Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 50 executives who participated in judging. The Stevie Award trophy, made by the company that makes the Oscar and other major international awards, is among the world's most coveted prizes.

The German Stevie Awards welcomes nominations from all organizations operating in Germany – large and small, for-profit and non-profit, publicly-held and privately-held - with a wide range of categories to choose from, including:

• Company of the Year awards
• Management awards
• Marketing awards
• Public relations awards
• Customer service awards
• Human resources awards
• IT awards
• New product awards
• App and website awards
• Video awards
  and more

Here is a preview of some of the Gold winning entries:

Feingold Technologies GmbH – App Awards

Feingold Technologies created a series of smartphone apps (Stress Manager, Stress Control, Call Sense, iCoach) to analyze mindsets and emotional states, enabling the user to recognize stress in the early stages and avoid it before it becomes a problem. The smartphone apps help users (managers and employees in the workplace) reduce time and money spent on dealing with stress, and propels them to strengthen business and personal relationships that can be negatively affected by stress.

Relying on findings of game theory, behavioral science, neuropsychology, and mathematical models to objectively assess stress levels, the apps analyze a variety of vocal characteristics such as frequency patterns to measure how stressed a person is. Depending on the type of emotional distress detected, the apps will recommend certain corrective behaviors such as relaxation exercises, physical activity, and tips for dealing with stress while engaged in critical discussions. The recommendations preserve the mental and physical health of the user, thus having a positive effect on the user’s productivity. Responding to the user’s stress levels, the apps determine incoming stressful times and help reduce stress and anxiety, therefore helping the user to avoid workplace burn-outs.

Emanate PR – PR Awards

Emanate PR won a Stevie Award for their campaign for Burger King. In Germany, Burger King has successfully positioned itself as a leading fast food restaurant since 1976. Currently, there are nearly 700 locations with the company employing approximately 25,000 people.

In 2014, German Burger Kings experienced shortcomings in sales compared to their franchises in different countries. It was up to Emanate PR to help bring back customer confidence in Burger King’s food and to elevate Burger King’s social media standing. Focusing on the franchisees at the local level, Emanate PR created an ad campaign in which franchisees from the region guaranteed quality and freshness in their restaurants. Emanate PR conducted interviews for television stations and social media, hosted questions and answer sessions on YouTube, created appealing videos, presented individual stories, and referred to historical and regional references. Tours were also provided for journalists so they could evaluate the freshness of ingredients and the quality of store maintenance. The kitchen tours were a new concept for Germany to adopt and are still being given today. So far, over 1,000 kitchen tours have been given in 250 restaurants.

Following the campaign, Burger King received 2,000 applications for an advisory board that meets four times a year to “review freshness” and suggests updates for the brand. Overall, the campaign garnered an overwhelming positive response on television and Facebook.

Coca-Cola Germany – Corporate Social Responsibility Awards

Coca-Cola Germany is a subsidiary of the American 'The Coca-Cola Company' and filled its first bottles of coca-cola in 1929.

Coca-Cola Germany has been committed to its corporate social responsibility program, “Me, We, World,” and strives to achieve sustainability within three categories: economical, ecological, and social. Recently, Coca-Cola has been even more committed to make significant economical, ecological, and social strides by 2020.

In regards to ​​climate protection, Coca-Cola Germany utilizes efficient cooling equipment, improved production processes, and environmentally-friendly transport of products to reduce CO2 emissions (this program runs alongside steadily rising sales figures - managed by around 100,000 tons, or eight percent absolutely to reduce the overall CO2 footprint since 2010). At all locations, the company generates electricity using 100 percent renewable energy.

Another priority for the company is to protect water resources. Coca-Cola Germany ensures that all water used during production for water extraction sources does not adversely affect the regions in which production takes place. Various measures reduce Coca-Cola water consumption in production and prepare global wastewater production so that it doesn’t negatively affect the natural living conditions of plants and animals.

All suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and salesmanship are obliged to adhere to strict global guiding principles of the Coca-Cola Company that include labor, health, and safety standards, environmental protection, and sound business practices.  In addition, Coca-Cola produces about 99 percent of all 80 non-alcoholic beverages sold in Germany and both indirectly and directly backs the entire value chain of 120,000 jobs.

For a balanced diet, Coca-Cola provides a variety of products including soft drinks with and without calories, juices, juice spritzers and different flavored waters. Being mindful of impressionable consumers (elementary school children aged12 and under), Coca-Cola specifically advertises to more mature costumers. Coca-Cola Germany is part of the “Mission Olympic-Wanted” effort and engages its most active cities in the running to host the Olympics to “convey an awareness of a healthy beverage embossed with a regular sports life.”

ACCESS THE REST OF THE GOLD STEVIE-WINNING ENTRIES HERE.

Entries for the 2016 edition of the German Stevie Awards will be accepted starting this August.  Join the mailing list so that you get the entry kit as soon as it's available.

International Business Awards Offers Entrepreneurs Chance to Benchmark Against the World’s Best

It’s hard to start a business. It’s even harder to make it successful. In order to honor the courage and ingenuity of entrepreneurs around the world, the prestigious International Business Awards award this year have introduced four Startup of the Year categories. There is no cost for startups of all kinds to nominate themselves to win a Stevie® Award trophy.

As founder and president of the Stevie Awards Michael Gallagher knows about the challenges entrepreneurs face when starting their businesses: “Founders must overcome many obstacles in order to succeed. Therefore, we at the Stevie Awards want to help remove one of those obstacles by providing the world’s best startup companies with a platform on which to generate national and international brand recognition.”

All organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. Small organizations have just as much chance to win a Stevie as big companies do.  Every year, household-name companies such as Hyundai, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever are joined in the winners' circle by small and medium-size organizations that are still building their brands. Entering the IBAs is a cost-effective way to thank and honor a firm‘s valued employees and to build or burnish a corporate brand.

Young companies can only benefit from nominating themselves in The International Business Awards, explains Gallagher. In addition to the increased media awareness gained by winning a Stevie Award, winning entrepreneurs can use their entries for international benchmarking. “The individual entries are examined and evaluated by an international jury of more than 200 business experts. It doesn’t matter to the judges whether a startup company operates regionally, nationally or internationally. What counts is the extraordinary dedication of the entrepreneurs, the outstanding implementation of ideas and a special corporate culture. The jury is also interested to see how the company has dealt with challenges or crises,” says Gallagher.

The most important part of a startup’s nomination to The International Business Awards is an essay of up to 650 words about the company’s recent achievements (since the beginning of 2014, for the 2015 IBAs). “The short format provides the jury with an insight into the company and gives the organization the opportunity to precisely focus on their performance highlights. The process of preparing its own success story allows a firm to fine-tune its public profile and isolate its strengths and weaknesses. So the very act of preparing a nomination for The International Business Awards is in itself valuable.”

Lea Lange, founder and CEO of JUNIQE, a Stevie Award winner in Berlin, Germany, confirms this: “The Stevie Awards’ entry process was a good opportunity for self-reflection and to review our last year. In the entry essays we had to focus on what our company means to us and what makes it so special. It is very motivating to see that we had achieved putting our values into practice and then get this confirmed by winning multiple awards.” The young company won a Gold Stevie Award as “Start-up of the Year” in this year’s German Stevie Awards program.

Eligible to enter the IBA’s Startup of the Year categories are companies and entrepreneurs that began operations since the beginning of 2013. The final entry deadline for the International Business Awards is June 10, 2015. The entry kit and complete details on the competition are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

 

Entry Fees Eliminated for Government and Non-Profit Participants

The 12^th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business is now accepting entries, and in more categories than ever before. All female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run, worldwide, are eligible to be nominated.

This year the Stevie Awards for Women in Business will honor women in more than 85 categories including, among others, Entrepreneur of the Year, Executive of the Year, Maverick of the Year, Mentor or Coach of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Employee of the Year and Most Innovative Company of the Year.

The fields of government and non-profit are crucial to every society, and are increasingly being shaped by women. In the U.S.A. alone, the non-profit sector has 1.6 million organizations, and provides a great range of services in conjunction with government agencies such as relief for the poor, adoption, job placement, and community outreach.

Because of the dedication of women around the globe in these crucial sectors, the Stevie Awards has eliminated the entry fees for most of the categories for Government and Non-profit organizations and women! Each of the Government and Non-Profit categories is subdivided by organization size. 

• Female Innovator of the Year – Government or Non-Profit
• Female Executive of the Year – Government or Non-Profit
• Organization of the Year – Government or Non-Profit

Submission Requirements for Female Innovator of the Year, Female Executive of the Year, and Organization of the Year – Government or Non-Profit includes:

1. An essay of up to 525 words describing the nominated individual's / organization's achievements in the category since July 1, 2014

2. A biography of up to 125 words of the nominee

3. Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges.

(The executive categories are for women who run all or some part organizations founded by others. Employee totals are for the entire organization.)

The Stevie Awards realize it’s hard to start a business and it’s even harder to make it successful. In order to honor the courage and originality of women entrepreneurs around the world, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business now offers four Startup of the Year categories. There is no entry fee for these startup categories.

The categories recognize startup’s achievements since July 1, 2014 of organizations that began operations after July 1, 2013.  The Startup of the Year categories are for the following industries:

• Business Products Industries
• Business Services Industries
• Consumer Products Industries
• Consumer Servies Industries

The last of the new Women in Business categories for 2015 is Women-Run Workplace of the Year. It is broken down into two categories by company size: 10 or less employees, or more than 10 employees.

Now that there are increasingly more women in the workplace, and in positions of leadership and as CEOs, the Stevie Awards are thrilled to introduce this new category to honor women run businesses all over the world.

To enter the new categories, request your entry kit and find complete details on the competition at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Women.

The early-bird entry deadline is July 22, with reduced entry fees. The final entry deadline is August 26, and late entries will be accepted through September 23 with payment of a late fee. Winners of the 12th annual competition will be announced at a gala awards dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on November 13, 2015.

If you're in the government or non-profit industries, run or work for a startup, or own a woman-run business, take a look at these new categories. You could be one of the first to ever take home these titles!

Questions?  Contact us at help@stevieawards.com.