Employer Impact Awards Rubric: Impact in Sustainability

Prompts (500-word maximum per prompt):

  1. Describe how Waterloo co-op students support your organization’s meaningful contributions to advancing environmental sustainability goals.
  2. Summarize your organization’s strategies, initiatives and/or actions to reduce its environmental footprint or advance sustainability goals. Highlight how co-op students support, or are impacted by, these actions.

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Prompts Scoring criteria 1-3 points 4-6 points 7-8 points 9-10 points

1. Describe how Waterloo co-op students support your organization’s meaningful contributions to advancing environmental sustainability goals.

Did the entry include the following?

  • How students are involved in advancing the organization's sustainability goals.
  • Examples of sustainability projects or tasks that students have worked on. Skills or perspectives that students provided to help advance sustainability goals.
  • Specific results or improvements resulting from student contributions.
  • How the organization quantifies the impact of student contributions where possible (e.g., cost savings, revenue growth, product development, improved processes, outcomes related to the UN SDGs or other sustainability measures, etc.).

Provides minimal detail and few/no examples

Provides some detail and adequate examples

Provides adequate detail and good examples

Provides excellent detail and strong, connected examples
2. Summarize your organization’s strategies, initiatives and/or actions to reduce its environmental footprint or advance sustainability goals. Highlight how co-op students support, or are impacted by, these actions.

Did the entry include the following?

  • A summary of the organization’s overall commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability.
  • How sustainability aligns with the core mission and values of the organization.
  • Specific strategies or goals to reduce environmental impact and how they involve students.
  • Initiatives that engage employees, stakeholders or the public in sustainability efforts.
  • How the organization applies or communicates sustainability efforts to the organization or broader stakeholders.
 Provides minimal detail and few/no examples Provides some detail and adequate examples Provides adequate detail and good examples Provides excellent detail and strong, connected examples