Catalyst - Expanding opportunities for women and business

Catalyst Award Winners

Since 1987, Catalyst Award-winning initiatives have evolved from discrete programs to recruit, retain, and advance women to culture-changing organizational initiatives that recognize the business imperative for diversity and inclusion. This development of complexity and approach mirrors the overall evolution of diversity and inclusion in many organizations.

Catalyst has honored 66 initiatives at 62 organizations with the Catalyst Award. For a brief description of each Catalyst Award-winning initiatives since 2000, click on the links below. For a description of earlier initiatives, please consult the Catalyst 20th Anniversary Awards Compendium. Available for purchase, this hard-bound volume celebrates cutting-edge strategic approaches to advancing women and showcases the diversity strategies of winning organizations from 1987 through 2007.

2008
ING U.S. Financial Services
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
2007
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Scotiabank
2006
BP p.l.c.
The Chubb Corporation
Safeway Inc.
2005
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
2004
General Electric Company
Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Shell Oil Company U.S.
2003
Accenture
Ernst & Young LLP
WellPoint Health Networks Inc.
2002
Bayer Corporation
Fannie Mae
Marriott International, Inc.
2001
American Express Company
General Mills, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2000
Charles Schwab & Co.
IBM Corporation
The Northern Trust Company
1999
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Corning Incorporated
TD Bank Financial Group
1998
The Procter & Gamble Company
Sara Lee Corporation
1997
The Allstate Corporation
Avon Mexico 
1996 
Hoechst Celanese Corporation
Knight-Ridder, Inc.
Texas Instruments 
1995
Deloitte & Touche LLP
The Dow Chemical Company
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. 
1994
Bank of Montreal
McDonald's Corporation
Pitney Bowes Inc. 
1993
The American Business Collaboration (ABC)
  for Quality Dependent Care
Con Edison
Morrison & Foerster
Motorola
1992 
American Airlines
Continental Insurance
Hewlett-Packard Company 
1991 
Arthur Andersen & Co., S.C.
SC Johnson Wax
Tenneco Inc. 
1990 
Eastman Kodak Company
John Hancock Financial Services
US Sprint Communications Company 
1989 
Fannie Mae
IBM Corporation
US WEST, Inc. 
1988
Avon Products, Inc.
Corning Glass Works
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Gannett Co., Inc.
1987
Connecticut Consortium for Child Care
The Equitable Financial Companies
IBM Corporation
Mobil Corporation