PR Daily Announces the Nonprofit Communications Awards 2023!

On September 28, 2023, PR Daily’s Nonprofit Communications Awards ceremony took place at the Yale Club in New York City.

This event was a grand celebration of the most outstanding agencies in the industry. Recognizing excellence in client service, strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, the awards luncheon highlighted the groundbreaking campaigns and remarkable achievements that have set new benchmarks in the field.

From driving impactful storytelling to fostering diverse and inclusive communications, these exceptional organizations were honored for their outstanding work. PR Daily extends warm congratulations to all the well-deserving winners. Discover more about their award-winning campaigns and exceptional contributions to the industry. Learn more about their winning campaigns.

ORDER AWARDS

Guest Presenters

Veronica Rodriguez
Veronica Rodriguez
Chief Brand Officer
H&S
Aray Rivera
Aray Rivera
Sr. Manager, Internal Communications
J. Crew
Jennifer Rasing
Jennifer Rasing
Global Lead Pan Asian Network (PAN) People Business and Resource Group
Bristol Myers Squibb

Presenters

Jon Minnick
Jon Minnick
Special Projects Manager & Awards Show Producer
Ragan Communications and PR Daily
Jess Zafarris
Jess Zafarris
Director of Content
Ragan and PR Daily

WINNERS

Grand Prize

Grand Prize: Corporate/Nonprofit Partnership of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Grand Prize: Corporate/Nonprofit Partnership of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Allbirds & Amazon Watch: Keep the Amazon Prime
  • Nicor Gas: Shield of Caring
  • SourceCode Communications: Diversity Marketing Consortium
Winner

Grand Prize: Corporate/Nonprofit Partnership of the Year

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Campaign of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Campaign of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Allbirds & Amazon Watch: Keep the Amazon Prime
  • Brodeur Partners: Returning to the Boston Marathon® Course
  • CableLabs and Comprise: The 10G Challenge
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
  • Raise Your Hand Texas: Measure What Matters
  • Understood.org: Understood.org Asks Parents to Be the Reason Neurodivergent Kids Thrive
  • Youth Resilience Activity USAID ACDI/VOCA: Youth Communication and Innovation Lab
Winner

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Campaign of the Year

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Professional of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Professional of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Allyson Jones: National Black Child Development Institute
  • Heather Morgan: Children's Home Society of Florida
  • Rachael Uriarte: The Archer School For Girls
Winner

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Professional of the Year

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Team of the Year

Honorable Mentions

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Team of the Year

Honorable Mentions
  • Chesapeake Regional Healthcare: Marketing Team
  • Children's Home Society of Florida: CHS Communications, Marketing and Engagement Team
  • City of Hope Orange County: City of Hope Orange County marketing and communications
  • The Archer School For Girls: Communications and Strategic Marketing Team
Winner

Grand Prize: Nonprofit Communications Team of the Year

Campaigns and Communication

Advocacy or Awareness Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • 4media group: Too Young for This
  • AARP California: Supporting Family Caregivers is Worth the Cost
  • Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada: Duty Counsel Day
  • Barbara Sinatra Children's Center: Overcame: Art of the Abused Child
  • Corazón Latino Inc.: Fighting COVID-19 a ONE Health Approach
  • Denterlein: Yes on 2
  • Hager Sharp: CDC's Excessive Alcohol Campaign
  • Inova: Safe@Inova – Workplace Safety Awareness Campaign
  • National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID): RSV in Focus
  • Raise Your Hand Texas: Measure What Matters
Winner

Branding or Rebranding Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Branding or Rebranding Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Bryson Gillette: Native Forward Scholars Fund Rebranding Campaign
  • Ventura County Fire Department: Ventura County Fire Department Rebranding
Winner

Branding or Rebranding Campaign

Community-Nonprofit Partnership

Honorable Mentions
  • Blue Cares: We Care Kit
  • National Endowment for Financial Education: National Endowment for Financial Education Announces Strategic Partnership Pilot Program
Winner

Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership

Honorable Mentions

Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership

Honorable Mentions
  • Corazón Latino: Win by Serving | Ganar Sirviendo
  • Nespresso x The Ali Forney Center: Nespresso x The Ali Forney Center
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: ProJourn
Winner

Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Communications

Honorable Mentions

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Communications

Honorable Mentions
  • Aspire Indiana Health: Aspire Indiana Health - DEI
  • Corazón Latino Inc.: JEDI
  • Goodwill of North Georgia: Goodwill of North Georgia's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
  • TEXAS YES: Noisy Trumpet Digital and Public Relations
  • The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: AAOS IDEA GRANT PROGRAM – Inspiring Diversity, Equity, and Access
Winner

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Communications

Email Marketing Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Email Marketing Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Zaiss & Company: Completely KIDS Marketing Campaign
Winner

Event PR and Marketing

Honorable Mentions
  • 919 Marketing: Diapers to Dorms Dash Campaign
  • Brodeur Partners: Returning to the Boston Marathon® Course
  • Zaiss & Company: Completely KIDS Pinot, Pigs and Pours
  • Gaylord Specialty Healthcare: Gaylord Gauntlet 5K Trail and Obstacle Run
  • HIROC: HIROC Hackathon
  • The Archer School For Girls: Archer School for Girls x Teen Vogue: Teen Vogue Summit 2022
  • The Castle Group: Embrace Boston
Winner

Fundraising Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Franco: The Salvation Army Great Lakes Division’s 2022 Celebrity Bell Ring Weekend
  • Red Havas: RBG for SOS
Winner

Innovation in Nonprofit Communications

Honorable Mentions

Innovation in Nonprofit Communications

Honorable Mentions
  • Zaiss & Company: Bellevue University Tuesday Takeaways
  • The Archer School For Girls: Archer School for Girls x Teen Vogue: Teen Vogue Summit 2022
  • Youth Resilience Activity USAID ACDI/VOCA: Youth Communication and Innovation Lab
Winner

Marketing Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Marketing Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • 4media group: Too Young for This
  • Jefferson Health: Don't Delay Your Care
  • Renown Health: Recruitment & Retention at Renown Health
  • San Francisco Foundation: Celebrating 75 Years of Social Justice in the Bay Area: San Francisco Foundation
Winner

Media Relations Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • Allen & Gerritsen: From local hero to national inspiration: Cancer survivor and Penn State student Tucker Haas gives back
  • Children's Health: Children’s Health Supports Superhero Patients with Cape Day Campaign
  • Greater Phoenix Economic Council: Nonprofit Media Relations Campaign – National Media Branding
  • The American Academy of Orthopaedic Suregons: Experience It! AAOS 2023 Annual Meeting Media Program
  • The Home Depot Foundation with Big Red Rooster, MSL, PullSpark and Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis: Operation Surprise 2022
  • Winuk Communications, Inc.: The 9/11 Community's Campaign to Combat Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Tactics
Winner

Public Affairs Campaign

Honorable Mentions

Public Affairs Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • College of American Pathologists: Multi-Channel Public Affairs Campaign to Drive Awareness of the CAP’s 2022 Priority to Advocate to Reduce Health Disparities
  • Denterlein: Yes on 2
Winner

Social Media Campaign

Honorable Mentions
  • BoardroomPR: JAFCO Social Media Campaign
  • ERA Coalition: Elect Equality
  • Getty (J. Paul Getty Trust): Medieval Tymes
  • Learning Forward: Content curation - Professional learning for tired teachers - Ariel Durham
  • National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners: How DO You Love Yourself?
Winner

Visual Storytelling

Honorable Mentions

Visual Storytelling

Honorable Mentions
  • AHIP: Health in Motion
  • FOUR PAWS International: Pets of War: Supporting Animals Impacted by the War in Ukraine
  • Fund for Women's Equality: Equal Voice Equal Vote
  • Megaworld Foundation, Inc.: Creating Change, Transforming Lives: Megaworld Foundation’s Official Video
  • TEAM LEWIS x TEAM LEWIS Foundation: TEAM LEWIS Foundation: Connecting Communities through Creativity
  • TEAM LEWIS: TEAM LEWIS Showcases the Heart of Rady Children’s Hospital Through Video
  • Veritiv: Veritiv Designed the 2023 Cookie Rally box to introduce the new Raspberry Rally Cookie for Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
Winner

Communications Assets

Annual Report

Honorable Mentions
  • Ares Charitable Foundation: Transformative Philanthropy in Action: 2022 Impact Report
  • Kean University Foundation: Kean University Foundation
Winner

Digital Content

Honorable Mentions
  • Zaiss & Company: Completely KIDS Circles eNewsletter
  • Kean University Foundation: Kean University Foundation
  • Megaworld Foundation, Inc.: A Silver Lining for Many Filipinos
  • National Automobile Dealers Association: NADA Website
  • The Cleveland Clinic: The Power of Every One Centennial Campaign Digital Impact Report
Winner

Podcast

Honorable Mentions
  • AHIP: The Next Big Thing in Health
  • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO): Public Health Review Morning Edition
  • HIROC: HIROC Healthcare Change Makers Podcast
  • National League for Nursing: NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted Podcast
  • Stanford Seed: Grit & Growth
  • The Conference Board: CEO Perspectives
Winner

Print Publication

Honorable Mentions
  • Cape Fear Valley Health: Making Rounds Magazine
  • Hudson Headwaters Health Network: Hudson Headwaters Health magazine
  • Milken Institute: Power of Ideas
  • South Bay Cities Council of Governments: South Bay Watch
  • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation: Cleveland Clinic Magazine | The Innovation Issue (Fall 2022)
Winner

Video

Honorable Mentions
  • Caption Design: Social Determinants of Health Video Series for The Dalio Center for Health Justice at NewYork-Presbyterian
  • Getty (J. Paul Getty Trust): Medieval Tymes
  • Hager Sharp: CDC's Excessive Alcohol Campaign
  • Northeastern University: Northeastern University TikTok
  • TEAM LEWIS x TEAM LEWIS Foundation: TEAM LEWIS Foundation: Connecting Communities through Creativity
  • TEAM LEWIS: TEAM LEWIS Showcases the Heart of Rady Children’s Hospital Through Video
  • Understood.org: Understood.org Asks Parents to Be the Reason Neurodivergent Kids Thrive
Winner

Website

Honorable Mentions
  • Community Legal Services: Hurricane Ian Disaster Response
  • National Automobile Dealers Association: NADA Website
  • Understood.org: Understood.org's Website
Winner

Additional Awards

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If you have any questions or need help registering for the awards ceremony, please email Barbara Kanady at barbarak@ragan.com.