The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs is pleased to announce six winners of the 2024 Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). The 2024 ACE categories are Women’s Economic Security; Innovation to Strengthen Communities; and Climate Resilience.

2024 marked the 25th anniversary of the Award for Corporate Excellence’s founding. Over this quarter of a century, ACE has highlighted how American businesses have raised the bar of corporate social responsibility and utilized innovative tools and technologies to create positive impacts in the world around them. Though the challenges the global community has faced over the past quarter of a century have changed, U.S. companies remain at the forefront of generating lasting solutions.

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