DAYTON — It’s never too early to begin compiling your 2025 BBB Torch Award application. Bring the honor home to your business or nonprofit in 2025. It’s a great way to celebrate and recognize your team’s hard work and put a spotlight on your organization’s integrity.
The BBB’s Torch Awards honor organizations whose leaders demonstrate a high level of personal character; ensure the organizations’ practices meet the highest standards of ethics; and consequently generate trust with customers and the community. The Torch Awards embody BBB’s mission of advancing business trust. There are four award categories for businesses based on the number of full-time employees. BBB also has two to three award categories for nonprofits, which are also based on the number of full-time employees. The winners of each category will be submitted for consideration for the Golden Torch Award. The judges will evaluate the winners of each category to determine this honoree.
Learn more, nominate and/or apply at https://www.bbb.org/local/0322/torch-awards. The process only takes a few simple online steps: complete an entry form, write three or four essays and upload some standard business documentation and your logo. The deadline to nominate an organization for the honor is Feb. 3, 2025. The deadline to submit your own organization’s entry is March 3, 2025. The awards dinner will be held on May 13, 2025 at Sinclair Community College.
BBB is even hosting free, optional virtual seminars to help you understand the process. They walk you step-by-step through completing a submission. Seminars are planned for the following dates and times:
* Thursday, Sept. 12, 8:30 a.m.
* Wednesday, Oct. 9, 3:30 p.m.
* Friday, Nov. 8, 11:30 a.m.
* Monday, Dec. 9, 3:30 p.m.
* Tuesday, Jan. 7, 11:30 a.m.
* Wednesday, Feb. 5, 8:30 a.m.
Register today for one by calling (937) 610-2270.
If you have questions regarding these honors, call (937) 610-2277 or e-mail [email protected].
The honors are sponsored by many local organizations, including Back To Business I.T.
About Your BBB Serving Dayton and the Miami Valley
The Better Business Bureau has empowered people to find businesses, brands and charities they can trust for over 110 years. In 2023, people turned to BBB more than 218 million times for BBB Business Profiles on 5.3 million businesses, and 80,000 times for BBB charity reports on about 12,000 charities, for free at BBB.org. Regional, independent BBBs can be found across the United States and Canada. including BBB Serving Dayton and the Miami Valley, which was founded in 1925 and serves Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby and northern Warren counties in Ohio.
