The signature campaign
A Teamwork Champions Recognition Campaign honoring the paid and unpaid contributions that sustain our households, communities, organizations, and shared lives.
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We recognize teamwork without measuring human worth by productivity, status, accomplishments, or organizational membership.
THE CAMPAIGN COMMITMENTThe purpose
Our Work, Our Worth makes existing teamwork more recognizable through personal accounts, Teamwork Portraits, Champion Gatherings, and optional documentary storytelling. We acknowledge contributions that may be visible, overlooked, informal, shared, or rarely acknowledged.
Recognition brings people and relationships into view. What follows—if anything—is for participants to decide. A record does not require publication; a story does not require partnership; an acknowledgment does not require another commitment.
The teamwork behind recognition
These are recognizable actions that hosts and participants may carry in ways that fit their own circumstances.
Recognize paid and unpaid teamwork
Listen to people’s experiences
Communicate participation choices
Receive accounts accessibly
Recognize themes, topics, and periods
Prepare Teamwork Portraits
Recognize collaborators
Host Champion Gatherings
Develop Stories of Cooperation
Protect consent, privacy, and records
Our work, our worth’s required teamwork
Recognition includes communicating, planning, organizing, and administering teamwork. These dimensions can happen together; they are not mandatory stages.
Communications with care. Listen to people’s experiences and recognize the contributions, conditions, relationships, and responsibilities shaping their lives.
Planning with pacing. Prepare invitations, meaningful time periods, accessible ways to share experiences, and opportunities for participant review.
Organizing with trust. Recognize Teamwork Champions alongside the collaborators, families, peers, hosts, and communities contributing with them.
Administration with alignment. Care for accurate accounts, shared credit, participant choices, privacy, corrections, and continuity.
One person, one period, one theme
A recognition instance can gather several activities, roles, organizations, and relationships within a theme and period.
A conversation, résumé, or webform can be a valid source. Choose the method that works for you.
Multiple topics may fit one instance; categories follow those topics.
Records and publication are different choices.
Teamwork Topics help name teamwork. A topic label does not by itself establish an activity, outcome, or obligation.
A chapter-hosted expression
Iota Phi Theta chapters can host gatherings that recognize teamwork across brothers’ lives. Chapters can recognize brothers' full lives and acknowledge the families, coworkers, neighbors, and collaborators who help sustain that teamwork.
Building A Tradition welcomes recognition activities beyond any fraternity or chapter. Families, neighbors, coworkers, and other teams can host too, with each participant choosing how their story is shared.
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Recognition is a choice
No. Individuals, families, coworkers, neighbors, community members, and all types of teams can participate. A chapter may host recognition, but affiliation is never a requirement.
No. Recognition may be private, shared in a chosen circle, celebrated at a gathering, or published with permission. A public account is always optional.
Yes. One theme-and-period recognition instance can bring together supported contributions across workplaces, families, communities, and organizations, retaining enough detail and shared credit to reflect the actual teamwork.
No. Topics are descriptive vocabulary. More topics, awards, or stories do not establish greater human value.
No. Cooperation, research, application development, and additional storytelling remain voluntary possibilities, never conditions of recognition.
THE INVITATION
Begin with what is already happening in the lives and relationships around you.