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The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is inviting submissions for the 2009 Awards for Business Excellence, which will honor the unique and crucial contributions of companies implementing sophisticated, successful programs to fight disease.

The Coalition’s recognition is designed to celebrate the biggest successes and engage more companies in the fight as part of a coordinated international business movement. Past winners include leading multinational companies such as Viacom, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and HBO.
The deadline for submissions is February 23, 2009 and winners will be notified by April 30, 2009. Please note that only for-profit companies are eligible to submit applications.
Winning programs will be honored with a presentation at an awards event on 24 June at the culmination of a two-day conference in Washington, DC that will bring together high-level actors from the public and private sector leading the global fight to end the three epidemics.
Awards will be granted in six categories:

1. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Workplace Program
   Awarded to a company for combating HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria through a comprehensive workforce-focused program. Applications will also be welcomed for programs that incorporate interventions for two or more of the diseases, as well as for programs in which the disease interventions are part of a comprehensive wellness approach.
   
   
2. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Community Investment
   Awarded to a company that expands HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria interventions beyond its own workforce and operations to reach the broader community. Applications are welcomed from company-implemented intervention programs as well as community-focused philanthropic initiatives.
   
   
3. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Core Competence
   Awarded to a company that best applies its individual core competencies-skills, products, services, or people-to facilitate action on one or more of the three diseases.
   
   
4. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Women & Girls
   Awarded to a program that directly addresses the needs and vulnerabilities of women and/or girls, engages women in program activities or directly confronts the gender inequalities that drive disease transmission and impede care-seeking.
   
   
5. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Performance Measurement (NEW in 2009)
   Awarded to a company that has actively developed an HIV/AIDS, TB or malaria program with a robust monitoring and evaluation component. Preference will be given to programs where the evaluation has already assessed impact and results.
   
   
6. GBC Award for Business Excellence: Partnership and Collective Action (NEW in 2009)
   Awarded to companies achieving exceptional results through partnerships or collective actions among businesses and/or across sectors. Preference will be given to standard-setting programs with outstanding use of complementary competencies. Applications will be accepted from a single company applying on behalf of a partnership or team and/or from the full team collectively. Eligible programs should focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or some combination of all three, and may include connection to a larger public health initiative.

To learn more about the awards process and to download an application form visit: http://www.gbcimpact.org/live/events/awards/2009/call-for-applications.php