The Northern Virginia Champions for Accountability badge recognizes employers that are willing to collect, share, and act on data about the diversity of their leadership.

To receive the badge, a business must:

I. Operate in Virginia, Maryland, and/or DC

II. Collect demographic data on board members and/or c-suite members/executives

III. Complete all questions on this form

This application requests detailed information about your company's board and leadership composition and may be easiest when completed by a human resource officer. The form should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

Information that you provide on this form will be kept strictly confidential; all data will be deidentified and combined to quantify the extent to which Northern Virginia businesses are under diverse leadership. Except for information collected expressly for the directory (company name, geography, website, industry), your individual responses will be kept confidential and will be accessible only to Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Vice President, Finance and Administration (Kevin Kelly, kkelly@novachamber.org), the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia’s Senior Director of Insight Region (Elizabeth Hughes, elizabeth.hughes@cfnova.org), and the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Manager of Registration (Homaira Sherdil, hsherdil@novachamber.org) for research purposes only. Responses will not be shared outside of this team.

Badge holders will be recognized in a public directory of companies that have received the badge, with their company name, website, industry, contractor status, and the county(ies) in which they operate; those that have diverse ownership, c-suite, and board composition will be acknowledged in a second directory of diverse-led businesses in Northern Virginia. These directories will be made available in September 2023.

Thank you for your commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Accountability!

Your responses in this section will be kept confidential.

Your responses in this section will be kept confidential.

Your responses in this section will be kept confidential.

Your responses in this section will be kept confidential.

Only data collected in this section will be placed in a public, searchable directory of businesses that have received the badge. If you do not want certain information to be included in the directory, please leave that field blank.

In the coming weeks you will receive additional information about this project and the Northern Virginia Champions for Accountability badge.

At that time, you will be asked the details that will be included in our public directory of businesses and to commit to the following pledge:

As a Champion for Accountability, my business pledges to:

1) Ask staff, senior leadership, and board members to provide self-identified demographic detail (such as race-ethnicity, gender, disability status), and share findings regularly with staff

2) Develop clear, attainable pathways for staff to move into management and leadership positions

3) Identify and recruit from candidate pools that represent a more diverse cross-section of talent

4) Regularly review and update position descriptions / requirements to widen the pool of potentially qualified candidates (skills-based hiring)

Thank you for your submission! If you have applied by June 30, 2023, you should receive your badge by September 15, 2023. All other badges will be issued on a rolling basis later in the year. If you have any questions, please contact: Elizabeth Hughes, elizabeth.hughes@cfnova.org.