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The 3rd annual Anthem Awards have just concluded, and the winners have been announced. Among the notable winners are Taylor Swift, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” CNN, Vice Media, TheGrio, and the SiriusXM podcast network. Additionally, celebrities such as Matt Damon, Selma Blair, Kevin Bacon, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson have been honored with special achievement awards.
The Anthem Awards, launched by the Webby Awards in 2021, aim to recognize social impact work around the world. This year’s honorees include nonprofits and foundations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, IllumiNative, It Gets Better Project, World Central Kitchen, Decolonizing Wealth Project, AARP, and UNICEF.
Cultural figures like “On Purpose with Jay Shetty,” Megan Rapinoe, Lil Durk, and Amazon Music were also honored, along with media outlets such as ABC News, Capital B, Al Jazeera, Crooked Media, Dotdash Meredith, theSkimm, and Hearst.
Patricia McLoughlin, the general manager of the Anthem Awards, stated, “The Anthem Awards were born out of the desire to amplify and celebrate the voices that are creating sustainable change and to inspire others to take action. In a year where so much is at stake, it is incredibly important to recognize impact work and celebrate the progress happening globally.”
The winners of the fan-voted Anthem Community Voice Awards include organizations like the National Women’s Law Center, American Red Cross, World Wildlife Fund, Lush Cosmetics, Capital B, Freeform, Sesame Workshop, Defence for Children Palestine, Liquid I.V., and others.
Special Achievement Winners for this year include Matt Damon, Kevin Bacon, Selma Blair, Jesper Brodin, Misty Copeland, Aurora James, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Leon Ford. Anthem judges included individuals from Netflix, Nike, Crooked Media, Comic Relief US, Mozilla, Tom’s of Maine, and more.
Speeches from all the winners, including the special achievement honorees, can be found at anthemawards.com/winners/.