Cox Conserves Heroes
Cox Conserves Heroes is part of Cox Enterprises’ national sustainability initiative, designed to recognize youth and adult volunteers, plus nonprofits, making a positive impact on our environment.
The Heroes are actively reducing or reusing carbon/energy and water, or are minimizing waste sent to landfills in line with our company’s own sustainability goals.
Nominations for your favorite environmental enthusiast are open Aug. 11-24.
Our 2024 Cox Conserves Heroes
With nearly 6,000 votes, we’re excited to share our top three environmental enthusiasts, each earning $30,000 from the James M. Cox Foundation to continue growing the good in their communities. Congratulations to Tixie Fowler, Hunter Guthrie and Keep Oklahoma Beautiful.

A Commitment to Sustainability
Cox Conserves has been instrumental in driving meaningful progress toward environmental change. We will continue to set new benchmarks in corporate sustainability as part of our ongoing journey to become a more sustainable company through our operations, partnerships and grants to nonprofits.
Criteria + Eligibility
We want to honor volunteers and nonprofits who are actively working to make progress in environmental sustainability while inspiring others to do the same.
To be eligible, nominees must be positively impacting the planet in all of the following areas:



Individuals of all ages are eligible to be nominated.* For the full list of requirements, please see our FAQ page.
*Nominees who are minors (under age 18) must have a parent or legal guardian’s (“parent”) permission in order to be nominated and parents will be required to sign a permission form.
What Your Nominee Could Win
Annually, the program awards a total of $150,000 from the James M. Cox Foundation to nine non-profits selected by the program’s winners. The program includes three first place grants, three second place grants, and three third place grants. The winner of the nonprofit category receives the Jim Kennedy Conservation Award in honor of Mr. Kennedy, chairman emeritus of Cox Enterprises, chairman of the James M. Cox Foundation, and an environmentalist who started the Cox Conserves sustainability program in 2007.
