by Bright Ewuru | Sep 25, 2025 | Articles
Canada has a rich tradition of celebrating excellence. This tradition is demonstrated through awards programs across sectors, including arts, culture, academia, public service, sports, human rights, indigenous governance, business and innovation.
In keeping with Canada’s values, the recognition culture has been evolving to acknowledge its diverse communities and historically underrecognised groups. Additionally, Canadian awards programs must contend with an increasing number of entrants and participants. They also have to cater to more demographics and geographic areas.
Awards managers in Canada are working to maintain stellar quality and overall participant experience as their awards programs grow. The best way to effectively scale your awards program is to use award management software to streamline operations.
Award Force is the answer.
Award Force is an awards management platform that can turbocharge the growth of your awards program. It’s suitable for companies, government bodies, academic institutions and nonprofits to run all types of awards programs, of all sizes and shapes.
Thanks to its ability to deepen a program’s impact on the community and industry, Award Force is popular in Canada. Currently, it caters to some of Canada’s most respected awards programs, such as:
Awards managers in Canada can do more in less time with Award Force. Our platform can handle higher volumes of entrants and applications more efficiently. These applications can be assessed simultaneously using the same evaluation criteria.
Award Force is designed with convenience and data protection in mind. Award managers can get instant insight into the progress of their awards program by checking comprehensive dashboards.
From data encryption and server security to data residency and multi-factor authentication, our platform is built with world-class security functionalities. This makes it compliant with requirements of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and other Canadian privacy and cybersecurity laws. Award Force also offers data residency in Canada, an important factor for many Canadian organisations.
Canadian awards programs powered with Award Force won’t need multiple platforms for different aspects of the award process. Award Force serves as a central hub for all program participants, housing every relevant piece of information.
It functions as an entry portal, allowing applicants to register, upload documents and submit their entries through it. Administrators can conveniently set deadlines, track progress and communicate with other participants using the platform. Award Force enables judges to review, score and share their feedback on entries.
Our software can boost your entries by improving entrant experience—Award Force clients enjoy a remarkable 38.17% increase in entry volumes.
Award Force makes it easy for entrants to apply for the program from anywhere in Canada. It makes the entry process hassle-free by allowing entrants to register with their social media accounts or log in with Single Sign-On (SSO).
Inclusion and diversity are important values in Canada; our software prioritises them by supporting diverse entry forms containing relevant details. Award Force supports multiple languages, giving entrants a choice between English and French, among other languages, and boosting accessibility as entrants can choose their preferred language.
Automation makes it easy for you to scale your awards program. It eliminates human error and frees up time for more impactful activities.
Some Award Force automations that will save you heaps of time include:
Maintaining a positive judging experience as your awards program grows is essential. With award management software, like Award Force, you can make the judging process easier and faster.
You can automatically assign entries to judges based on defined criteria, ensuring an even distribution of the workload. Award Force facilitates objectivity during assessment by supporting anonymous entries and blind judging. AI and plagiarism detection can help your judges instantly evaluate large volumes of submissions for originality.
Rubrics and various judging modes ensure a comprehensive evaluation of entries and the availability of different ways to pick a winner.
With Award Force, you can celebrate excellence effortlessly, even as the demands of your Canadian awards program grow.
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