Award-winning workforce innovation

Celebrating the innovators in our network

We created the Best Place for Working Parents® Innovator Awards to annually honor businesses among our designees that are leading the way in supporting working parents through cutting-edge, creative solutions that are benefiting their caregiving workforce and their bottom line.

Medium & Large Business Winner

“We are honored to be nationally recognized for the family-friendly benefits we offer to our employees at Hy-Vee. Our people are our greatest strength, and we are committed to making their lives’ — and their families’ lives — easier, healthier and happier every day.”
Tina Potthoff
Senior Vice President, Communications

Micro & Small Business Winner

“As a women-owned-and-operated event strategy and management company, it is Brigade’s sincere honor to receive the BP4WP National Innovator Award. At Brigade, we fundamentally believe in supporting and empowering women, which inspires us to offer flexible work options for our team members to ensure success and fulfillment at home and at work. As exhibited by our 16-week maternity leave with a 50% transition month, we believe every mother should have the opportunity to balance a successful career with the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.”
Justine Sterling Converse
Founder & CEO of Brigade Events

2024 National Innovator Awards

2023 Inaugural National Innovator Award

The selection of Tyson Foods as the inaugural Best Place for Working Parents® National Innovator Award recipient reflects the company’s exemplary implementation of best practices in onsite child care, setting them apart as an aspirational model for other organizations. Tyson Foods introduced a high-quality onsite child care center that offers nontraditional hour care to meet the needs of its working parent employees in its Humboldt, TN processing plant.  Offering this care at a highly reduced rate thanks to a public-private partnership with the state and county makes Tyson Foods one of the few companies in the nation to offer this unique benefit to shift workers, which is among the many commendable reasons Tyson Foods was honored with this award. 

Selecting our Innovator Award Winners

Want to be recognized as a Best Place for Working Parents® National Innovator? Simply complete the Best Place for Working Parents® self-assessment and be sure to share a detailed description of your most innovative family-friendly policies in the final open-response question. Submissions from across the national Best Place for Working Parents® network will be collected, reviewed, and scored by the Steering Committee annually each April, with a winner announced in May of each year.