Go Green

The goDCgo Employer Ambassadors Program seeks to recognize DC organizations for their efforts as transportation leaders. By offering transportation benefits and creative program incentives, businesses are helping to make the District the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States.

Become an Ambassador

BRONZE CRITERIA

In order to join the program at the Bronze level, you must implement at least one of the following strategies:

  • Expresses interest in telework, transit benefits, SmartBenefits, or other alternative commuting strategies
  • Conduct a commuter survey
  • Distribute sustainable commute info to employees
  • Post alternative commute information, on employee bulletin boards, intranet sites, newsletter or e-mail
  • Install electric car charging stations at the worksite

PERKS

  • goDCgo designation acknowledgment
  • Recognition at our Annual Employer Ambassador Awards
  • Digital badge for online marketing use
  • Continued support from goDCgo through our complimentary services: commute surveys, transportation fair attendance, brochure ordering, and commuter benefits implementation support

SILVER CRITERIA

In order to reach the Silver level, you must offer two or more of the following:

Install permanent display case or brochure holders

Install transit screen

Install bicycle racks or lockers

Install shower facilities

Implement flex-time or staggered work schedule

Implement compressed workweek for 1-20% of employees

Implement telework program with 1-20% of employees participating

Provide preferential parking for carpools/vanpools Facilitate car/vanpool formation meetings

Become a Commuter Connections member and provide on-site ridematching

Establish an Employee Transportation Coordinator

Supplement Guaranteed Ride Home program

Host/sponsor alternative commute day or transportation fair

Participate in the Capital Bikeshare Corporate Membership program

SILVER PERKS

  • goDCgo designation acknowledgment in newsletter
  • Recognition at our Annual Employer Ambassador Awards
  • Featured on goDCgo.com
  • Digital badge for online marketing use
  • Continued support from goDCgo through our complimentary services: commute surveys, transportation fair attendance, brochure ordering, and commuter benefits implementation support

GOLD CRITERIA

In order to reach the Gold level, you must meet the requirements of the Silver level and offer one of the following:

Telework program with more than 20% participating

Compressed workweek with more than 20% of employees participating

Implement a transit/vanpool benefit, SmartBenefits, or parking “cash out” program

Implement a carpool/bicycle/walk benefit

Charge a fee for parking but provide free or significantly discounted parking for carpools and vanpools

Employee shuttle to transit stations

Company vanpools for employees’ commutes to work

Comprehensive bicycle/walking program (showers, bike racks, lockers, financial incentives)

Implement parking fee

PERKS

  • goDCgo designation acknowledgment
  • Recognition at our Annual Employer Ambassador Awards
  • Featured on goDCgo.com
  • Digital badge for online marketing use
  • Opportunity to be featured in a success story
  • Opportunity to be featured in our e-newsletter
  • Social media support – including mentions, re-tweets and follows on all platforms
  • Continued support from goDCgo through our complimentary services: commute surveys, transportation fair attendance, brochure ordering, and commuter benefits implementation support

PLATINUM CRITERIA

In order to reach the Platinum level, you must meet the requirements of the Silver and Gold level, and offer one additional Gold level benefit.

PERKS

  • goDCgo designation acknowledgment
  • Recognition at our Annual Employer Ambassador Awards
  • Framed Platinum Ambassador Certificate
  • Featured on goDCgo.com
  • Digital badge for online marketing use
  • Opportunity to be featured in a success story
  • Opportunity to be featured in our e-newsletter
  • Social media support – including mentions, re-tweets and follows on all platforms
  • Continued support from goDCgo through our complimentary services: commute surveys, transportation fair attendance, brochure ordering, and commuter benefits implementation support

Ambassador Resources

Custom Survey

Custom Survey

goDCgo will create a customized commuter survey for your organization and analyze the data to produce recommendations. Collecting baseline data about your employees’ commutes can help create the best commuter program for your organization. With data in hand, your organization can make an easier case for implementing new commuter benefits.

On-Site Promotions

On-Site Promotions

Transportation is always changing in DC. Keep your employees up to date on all the latest options as well as tips and tricks for sustainable commuting with complimentary services from goDCgo.

  • Lunch-and-Learns
  • Tabling at Benefit or Transportation Fairs
  • Custom Get Around Guides for your workplace
  • Transportation brochures and bike maps

For more information about these services, reach out to info@goDCgo.com or 202-299-2186

Webinars and Commuter Benefits Support

Webinars and Commuter Benefits Support

goDCgo hosts monthly webinars and virtual office hours to provide support for employers looking to enhance their commuter benefits programs. These events provide an opportunity to engage directly with a Client Services Manager. Past webinar topics include:

  • Telework and alternative work schedules
  • Office relocation
  • Becoming a bike-friendly workplace
  • How to comply with the DC Commuter Benefits Law
  • IRS Transportation benefit changes

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to receive invitations to these webinars and virtual office hours.

EMPLOYER AMBASSADORS

Afterschool Alliance

AGH Strategies

Airports Council International-North America

Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union

Brailsford & Dunlavey

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)

Embassy of the United Arab Emirates

Howard University

Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch, P.C.

Neighborhood Legal Services Program

OTJ Architects

Population Connection

Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC

Securing America’s Future Energy

Truth Initiative

The Upside Travel Company, LLC

AARP National Office

American Association of Colleges of Nursing

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

American Institutes for Research (AIR)

American Public Transportation Association

American Society of Landscape Architects

American University

American Wind Energy Association

Arabella Advisors

Association of American Medical Colleges

Ballard Spahr LLP

Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

Catholic University of America

Center for American Progress

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

DC Department of Energy and Environment

Defenders of Wildlife

District Department of Transportation (DDOT)

Downtown DC BID

Edison Electric Institute, Incorporated

Eno Center for Transportation

Fannie Mae

Federal Practice Group

FHI 360

Folger Shakespeare Library

Foursquare ITP

Gallaudet University

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Google DC

Gorove Slade Associates, Inc.

National Geographic Society

International Food Policy Research Institute

National League for Nursing

The Peace Corps

Smithsonian Institution

So Others Might Eat (SOME) Inc

Thornton Tomasetti Inc.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The United States Department of Homeland Security

Virtual Enterprise Architects

Washington Gas

World Bank

World Resources Institute

World Wildlife Fund

2022 AMBASSADOR AWARDS WINNERS

  • Emerging Commuter Program, Small Employer

    Winner of goDCgo’s 2021 Commuter Challenge, Gorove Slade, instituted a parking cashout program and formalized their telework policy incentivizing their employees to switch to a sustainable commute.  

  • Emerging Commuter Program, Large Employer

    IREX, created a formal telework and flex work policy to allow their employees to have a hybrid and flexible work schedule. They also provide access to shower and locker facilities for bike commuters.

  • Employee Transportation Coordinator of the Year, Small Employer

    Destiny Jackson of  George Washington helped 305 employees and students explore their commute options and switch to sustainable commutes by either enrolling in the incenTrip pilot program or Capital Bikeshare’s universities program. 

  • Employee Transportation Coordinator of the Year, Large Employer

    Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing, led the implementation of a four-day work week eliminating 1/5 of the commute trips taken by their employees. 

  • Capital Bikeshare Corporate Member

    As a Capital Bikeshare Corporate member, Inter-American Development Bank Staff Association, provides their employees with access to discounted annual bikeshare memberships. In 2021, their members took 6,491 bike trips

  • Capital Bikeshare Community Partner

    As a Capital Bikeshare Community Partner, Carlos Rosario PCS (Harvard Campus), provides their staff and students $5 Capital Bikeshare annual memberships. In 2021, they signed up 56 new members and collectively their 98 total members took 2,568 bike trips. 

  • Outstanding Partner

    Commuter Connections incenTrip, worked with goDCgo to provide committed employers with early access to their incenTrip app that incentivizes commuters to choose sustainable commuting options by rewarding them with cash.  

  • Outstanding Employer Partner

    Catholic University of America participated in goDCgo’s incenTrip pilot program to incentive sustainable commutes. In 2021, Catholic University logged over 450 sustainable trips and reduced their CO2 emissions by 1210 pounds. 

FAQs

The Employer Ambassadors Program is a criterion based recognition program for DC organizations to showcase their commitment to sustainable transportation by promoting and providing alternative travel options and commuter benefits to employees.

The Employer Ambassadors Awards Ceremony is an annual event held in the spring to honor DC employers who have gone above and beyond to promote sustainable transportation and continue to build interest in the use of alternative travel options through their exceptional commuter benefits programs.

Completed nominations are thoroughly evaluated against other DC employers by a selection committee of transportation industry thought leaders.

Awarded organizations receive:

  • A displayable commemorative Award
  • Recognition at the goDCgo Ambassador Awards ceremony
  • Networking opportunities with DC businesses and the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) leadership
  • Social media exposure to 5,000+ followers
  • Publicity via press releases
  • Their company logo on promotional materials
  • Honorable mention of designation

To be eligible for a goDCgo Ambassador Award, all organizations must:

  • Offer commuter transit benefits.
  • Distribute information about commute options to employees.
  • Must receive a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum designation from goDCgo
Yes! If you’d like to nominate your organization, but are not currently eligible, goDCgo will provide complementary support to help you start or expand your commuter benefits programs.

goDCgo is available to assist with any additional questions about the Ambassador Awards and transportation resources. Please call 202.299.2186 or email info@goDCgo.com.

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