Buy Social Canada is thrilled to invite nominations for the 2025 Social Procurement and Social Enterprise Champion Awards.

Recognize and celebrate organizations that drive impact in the supply chain and nominate your organization or another who is advancing social procurement or social enterprise in Canada.

Nomination deadline: March 28, 2025.

Don’t miss this chance to shine a spotlight on the incredible organizations you are working with. Let them know you are thinking of them, recognize their contributions, and strengthen partnerships while promoting the social enterprise and social procurment sectors.

The Buy Social Canada team will review the nominations, decide on a short-list of nominees and announce the winners at our Marketplace Impact event on May 27, 2025.

We look forward to the opportunity to connect with, recognize, and celebrate champions in the sector.

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Social Procurement Champion Award

The Buy Social Canada Social Procurement Champion Award recognizes and celebrates Canadian organizations that work tirelessly to advance social procurement, community benefit agreements (CBAs), social enterprise, and the marketplace revolution to create healthy, vibrant communities.  
 
This Social Procurement Champion Award is not limited to any one sector. Nominees can be from public or private sectors, including government (municipal, provincial, or federal department), healthcare, crown corporations, construction or tourism sector businesses, and more. 

Nominate a Social Procurement Champion

Social Enterprise Champion Award

The Buy Social Canada Social Enterprise Champion Award recognizes and celebrates Canadian social enterprises who work tirelessly to grow the movement of social enterprises and contribute to social procurement outcomes and healthy, vibrant communities.  

Please note that we will only consider nominations for social enterprises that meet the following definition of social enterprise: A business that sells goods or services, embeds a social, cultural or environmental purpose into the business, and reinvests the majority (at least 51%) of profits or surplus into its purpose. 

Nominate a Social Enterprise Champion

Be Part of the Process

Everyone is welcome to nominate organizations for these awards, and self-nominations are strongly encouraged. Don’t miss this chance to shine a spotlight on the incredible organizations you are working with. Let them know you are thinking of them, recognize their contributions, and strengthen partnerships while promoting the social enterprise sector. 
 
The Buy Social Canada team will review the nominations, decide on a short-list of nominees and announce the winner at an award ceremony later this spring.
 
We look forward to the opportunity to connect with, recognize and celebrate social enterprises who are champions in the sector.  
 
If you have any questions related to this award and nominations process, please reach out to emma@buysocialcanada.com.