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“Think about your audience and your competition.” This is just one piece of advice past winners shared on two webinars BCLC hosted on March 15^th and April 12^th in advance of the Corporate Citizenship Awards Nomination deadline which is approaching on May 31^st.

Considering applying? Past winners say go for it!

[Editor's Note: This post original appeared on Huffington Post Impact]

Today we face many tough issues as a society and much work is being done to address them. Let's look at a slice of one such challenge -- health.

As many of our readers saw, in March we released a joint report with the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association (CROA) on The State of the Corporate Responsibility Profession.

I’m Carolyn Berkowitz, president of the Capital One Foundation and vice president of community affairs for Capital One.

I worked for non-profits for more than a decade before coming to Capital One. I joined the company because I have always believed in the power of partnership and collaboration between the business community, nonprofits and government organizations and I wanted to be a part of driving that vision forward.

This article first appeared on Mashable and I'm sharing it here because the business leaders we work with are always interested in effective ways to engage with local officials to solve community challenges. Community issues that affect local businesses come in all shapes and sizes, both in the U.S. and across the globe. This is a strong example of social media playing a central role in problem-solving to create a better community; what other scenarios have worked? Leave your comments.