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Our 2025 Good Fight Prize Finalists

The Investors for a Fair Economy Campaign

Led by the Shareholder Association for Research & Education (SHARE), in partnership with over 47 Ontario foundations, pension plans, Indigenous trusts, family offices, and religious institutions.

SHARE’s Investors for a Fair Economy initiative mobilizes institutional investors – foundations, pension plans, Indigenous trusts, family offices, universities and religious institutions – to use investor power in support of workers’ rights. The initiative has helped to secure landmark corporate commitments on labour rights, racial equity, and workplace safety at major employers, and was instrumental in advancing Canada’s Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, demonstrating that capital can be a force for decent work and justice.

The Worth More! Campaign for Child Care Workers

Led by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

The Worth More! campaign unites frontline early childhood educators and child care workers, employers, unions, families, and allies to demand fair wages and decent work under the $10aDay child care plan in Ontario. The campaign has organized and mobilized thousands of supporters and helped raise the floor of ECEs’ wages by nearly $5 per hour with annual increases, while advancing calls for a funded wage grid, benefits, and pensions in child care.

The Youth Climate Corps Campaign

Led by the Climate Emergency Unit, Climate Action Network, and the Small Change Fund.

The Youth Climate Corps campaign mobilizes young people across Canada to demand a bold federal jobs program guaranteeing living-wage, unionized work in the green economy. YCC reframes climate action as a jobs strategy for a just transition – one that creates long-term career pathways in renewable energy, building retrofits, ecosystem restoration, emergency response, and community aid. The campaign has achieved significant political traction: after earning cross-party support and a House of Commons motion, YCC secured a two-year, $40-million federal pilot in Budget 2025 – the first step toward a national permanent public jobs program.

Nominations will open again in 2026

Nominations

Campaigns for decent work move us in a hopeful direction.

They support the daily work of standing up for what we value, even when it’s difficult to see a finish line. They create a spotlight big enough for all of us to stand in. The Good Fight Prize is a stage upon which everyone involved is celebrated.

 

Anyone can make a nomination for the Good Fight Prize. Here’s the criteria to help you recognize a good contender.

Nominate campaigns with:

  • A visionary narrative about decent work and related issues
  • Solutions-oriented, collective advocacy
  • Creative, courageous, and inclusive leadership
  • A focus on systemic policy change backed by sound research
  • Effective strategies for public education and engagement
  • More than one organization or group, and at least one charitable organization based in Ontario

We can't accept nominations for:

  • A single individual
  • A program or project that delivers employment services
  • A campaign that has been inactive for more than five years
  • A partisan political campaign

Nominations for the 2025 Good Fight Prize are now closed.

 

Stay tuned and sign up below for updates on this year’s winner and shortlist campaigns, as well as upcoming nomination dates in 2026.

The Good Fight Prize Jury wants to know as much as you can tell them about the campaign in 1,250 words or less. They’d like to know your answers to three questions:

 

  1. Who are you and how are you connected to the campaign?
  2. What are the campaign details?
  3. Why does this campaign deserve the Good Fight Prize?

 

Making your nomination — and telling this important story — is another great way to contribute to the fight! Nominations close at 12:00 noon EST on October 27, 2025.