&Mother Selected as Silver Winner of
3rd Annual Athem Awards
&Mother announced today that it is a Silver Winner in the category Special Projects: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in The 3rd Annual Anthem Awards.
This year’s Anthem Award Winners were selected from a pool of over 2,000 submissions from 44 countries by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Anthem judges are intellectually diverse leaders from across the impact industry with expertise that spans across the Anthem cause areas. IADAS members include: Heather Dowdy, Director of Product Accessibility, Netflix; Alex Amouyel, President & CEO, Newman’s Own Foundation; Noel Kinder, Chief Sustainability Officer, Nike; Shaniqua McClendon, Vice President of Politics, Crooked Media/Vote Save America; Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq., Executive Director, American Psychiatric Association Foundation; Alison Moore, CEO, Comic Relief US; Christina Lang, Vice President of North American Marketing, Mozilla; Michelle Waring, Steward for Sustainability and Everyday Good, Tom’s of Maine; and more.
Leveraging sports as a demonstration space for the rest of society, &Mother is supporting women and caregivers at both the amateur and professional levels by providing model contract language for professional athletes that includes provisions for pregnancy and parental leave; partnering with race organizers to facilitate on-course lactation support at running races; and providing grants to professional female athletes for their childcare needs.
Last year, &Mother provided lactation support at eight road and trail races, serving more than 100 runners, staff, volunteers, and spectators, with a safe, clean, well-equipped space to pump or chestfeed and funded grants for fourteen professional female athletes to support their childcare needs. Visit this page to view &Mother’s full submission.
“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,” said Patricia McLoughlin, Anthem Awards General Manager. “In a year where so much is at stake, it is incredibly important to recognize impact work and celebrate the progress happening globally. Congratulations to all of this year’s Winners.”
By amplifying the voices that spark global change, the Anthem Awards are defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to take action in their communities. A portion of program revenue is allocated to the Anthem Award’s grant program, The Anthem Fund. This year the Anthem Fund partnered with Billion Oyster Project to support their work to restore and conserve New York’s waterways.
About &Mother:
Founded by Olympic medalist, six-time USA Outdoor Track champion, and mother of three — Alysia Montaño — &Mother is a non-profit organization dedicated to breaking the barriers that limit a woman’s choice to pursue and thrive in both career and motherhood. Founded on Mother’s Day 2020, the &Mother team is transitioning a movement to impact – supporting a woman’s choice to pursue a career and motherhood while enabling women to become the driving force changing a working world that has historically discriminated against, dismissed, and undervalued motherhood, starting with professional athletics. Learn more at www.andmother.org and @andmother.org.
About The Anthem Awards:
Launched in 2021 by The Webby Awards, The Anthem Awards honors the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies and organizations worldwide. By amplifying the voices that spark global change, we’re defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to take action in their own communities. The Anthem Awards honors work across seven core causes: Diversity; Equity & Inclusion; Education; Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment & Climate. Founded in partnership with the Ad Council, Born This Way Foundation, Feeding America, Glaad, Mozilla, NAACP, NRDC, WWF, and XQ.
About The Webby Awards:
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites; Video; Advertising, Media & PR; Apps, Mobile, and Voice; Social; Podcasts; and Games. Established in 1996, The Webby Awards received more than 13,500 entries from all 50 states and 70 countries worldwide this year. The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include Verizon, WP Engine, YouGov, Brandlive, Canva, NAACP, KPMG, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, Podcast Movement, and AIGA.We’re also thrilled to announce that &Mother was selected as the Silver Winner of the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards in the Special Projects category. This year’s Anthem Award Winners were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 submissions representing 44 countries. Thank you for elevating our submission during the community voting period. &Mother couldn’t do what we do without your support and it is such a great honor to be recognized by you and other leaders in our community for the impact we are making for moms to pursue and thrive in career and motherhood.