Announcing PR Daily’s 2022 Nonprofit Communications Awards finalists
Congratulations to this year’s list of outstanding finalists!
PR Daily’s 2022 Nonprofit Communications Awards finalists represent the people, teams and organizations whose campaigns, partnerships and projects helped build awareness of or raise funds for important causes, initiatives, organizations and programs.
Their powerful storytelling was put on display and led to success for their organizations or clients, and we congratulate these impressive finalists on their successful work.
Scroll down to see who made this year’s list, and stay tuned for the winner announcement in late October.
Campaigns and Communication
Advocacy or Awareness Campaign
- Central Park Conservancy: Mary Caraccioli and Central Park Conservancy MarCom Team
- Coalition for Headache and Migraine Patients (CHAMP): Migraine at School & Think Talk Treat
- Color Of Change: MyCrownMyWay
- ECMC Group: ECMC Group Helps Teens Question The Quo in Education
- NHF: Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Accountable Now
Branding or Rebranding Campaign
- Aspire Indiana Health: Mockingbird Hill Recovery Center
- Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine: Redefining Doctor
- Pet Advocacy Network: PIJAC Rebrands to Pet Advocacy Network
- The Colleges of Law: The Colleges of Law rebrand
Community-Nonprofit Partnership
- Christian Care Ministry / Medi-Share: 1DayLA / Mobile clinic campaign
- LUNGevity Foundation: No One Missed Biomarker Testing Awareness Campaign’s “KNOWvember”
- Team Rubicon: Afghan Refugee Resettlement
- The Home Depot Foundation: Operation Surprise 2021
Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership
- Food Bank of Delaware/DoorDash: Delivering Hope through Project DASH
- The Trevor Project: The National Football League “NFL”
- Wray Ward: EmpoWWer Partnerships – We Rock Charlotte
Covid-19 Communications
- International Food Policy Research Institute: COVID-19 and Global Food Security
- Public Health Communications Collaborative: Messaging and Tools for the Nation’s Public Health Communicators
- Renown Health: COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout
- Team Rubicon: Veterans Coalition for Vaccination
CSR/ESG Initiatives
- Ohio’s Hospice: Ohio’s Hospice Community Benefit Report
- TEAM LEWIS: TEAM LEWIS Foundation – Boosting Culture by Giving Back
Diversity: Equity and Inclusion Communications
- Children’s Health: Children’s Health Expands Diversity & Inclusion Program to Support and Empower Employees, Patients and Community Members
- Dallas Independent School District: With Equity in Mind
- Institute for Human Caring: Hear Me Now Podcast
- Northern Virginia Transportation Authority: TransAction Public Engagement Campaign
Employee Communications
- Association of Equipment Manufacturers: 2 Truths and A Lie Employee Comms Series
- Church Pension Group: “Album” Video Series
Event PR and Marketing
- Americans United: Separation of Church & State
- Brodeur Partners: Transforming an Iconic In-Person Walk into a Virtual Event Amid a Pandemic
- Noisy Trumpet Digital & Public Relations: San Antonio Botanical Garden “Lightscape”
- The GIANT Company: GIANT Grocery Grab
Executive Visibility Campaign
- The Conference Board: Reliable Experts for the Business Community
- University of Maryland: Baltimore: UMB Presidential Priorities Campaign
Fundraising Campaign
- Chesapeake Regional Healthcare: Chesapeake Regional Health Foundation Gala
- Noisy Trumpet Digital & Public Relations: The PM Group: Groceries 4 Life
Marketing Campaign
- Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine: Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine automated email campaign
- Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine: Redefining Doctor
- Penn Medicine Princeton Health: Cancer Is No Match For Me
Media Relations Campaign
- Children’s Health: Children’s Health Educates and Empowers Parents, Physicians with COVID-19 Media Relations Campaign
- Coalition for Headache and Migraine Patients (CHAMP): Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
- ECMC Group: ECMC Group Helps Teens Question The Quo in Education
- Momentum Communications Group: Partners for Justice, Writing Humanity Into the Criminal Legal System
- United Way of the National Capital Area: Juneteenth
PR Campaign
- ECMC Group: ECMC Group Helps Teens Question The Quo in Education
- The Physicians Foundation: National Physician Suicide Awareness Day
Social Media Campaign
- League of Women Voters of the US: Communications Team
- MCE: Because of Youth Campaign
- MEGAWORLD FOUNDATION: INC.: MEGA SUMMER VENTURES VERSION 2.0
- Responsibility.org: Alcohol Responsibility Month IG Reels
Visual Storytelling
- American Humane: American Humane in Action
- Five Keys Home Free: Five Keys Home Free
Communications Assets
Annual Report
- Aspire Indiana Health: 2021 Annual Report
- Seattle Indian Health Board: Seattle Indian Health Board Communications Team
- Tampa General Hospital: Waves of Innovation
- Yale New Haven Health System: Innovation, Transformation, Hope
Article
- Sally Crocker, UNT Health Science Center: Article: “The realities of ‘breaking bad’ and how one HSC researcher is attacking the opioid crisis”
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology: “The Empty Couch”
- Yale New Haven Health System: Untangling the Capacity Challenge
Blog
- Saybrook University: UNBOUND
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology: INSIGHT
Digital Publication
- Megaworld Foundation: Inc.: THE VISIONARY, THE PHILANTHROPIST
- Renown Health: Determination in Action Annual Report
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology: INSIGHT
- Yale New Haven Health System: Yale New Haven Hospital “Advancing Care”
Podcast
- Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME): AIME
- NYU Langone Health: Vital Signs Podcast
- Salesforce.org: “Force Multiplier”: Where Action Meets Impact
Print Publication
- AFIRE: Summit Journal
- Internal Communications: NDWorks
- KIPP New Jersey: Team & Family Magazine
- Town of Lexington: Lexington Business Toolkit
- World Vision U.S.: World Vision magazine
Video
- Also-Known-As Inc.: “Deported, Not Forgotten” Advocacy Campaign
- American Kidney Fund: The Faces of Gout
- Aspire Indiana Health: Aspire Indiana Health/DCS Partnership
- Bluegrass Care Navigators: Liana’s Story
- Riverdale Country School: Get Ready for Giving Day! A Performance Review
Virtual Event
- California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: Virtual Winterfest
- Connected Nation: A national conversation on the Digital Divide
- Dallas Independent School District: 2021 Virtual State of the District
Website
- Aker Ink: Take Charge America Website
- CommonSpirit Health: CommonSpirit Resource Library
- League of Women Voters of the US: Communications Team
- National League for Nursing: NLN.org
- NHF: Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
- TrailBlaze Creative: Threshold Residential Services
Grand Prize
Nonprofit Communications Campaign of the Year
- American Humane: Betty White, The Gift That Keeps on Giving
- Children’s Hospital Colorado: Youth Mental Health State of Emergency: “Their Tanks are Empty”
- Institute of Reproductive Grief Care and Life Perspectives: “Forget Me Not” flower campaign for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
Nonprofit Communications Team of the Year
- League of Women Voters of the US: Communications Team
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing: Marketing and Communications Department
- Seattle Indian Health Board: Seattle Indian Health Board Communications Team
These people are winners now. One who is named a PR Daily Awards finalist is a winner.
It’s not just glory but money. Common sense is that if a PR expert or firm is needed to guide nonprofit communications, it makes sense to choose from among the finalists.
Candidates for communications work sound alike and when you’ve had presentations from enough of them may even start to look alike. The same self-deprecating humor, the same earnest admiration for your cause. But a candidate selected by PR Daily as a finalist is a candidate who has been vetted and acclaimed by experts.
It’s like a great university bringing you in to give a graduation speech and giving you an honorary degree. Universities may know better than most people who the great ones are, and so do the educators of PR Daily. Also in PR, one can call for a look at the entry that led to a finalist designation and then judge partly from looking at the entry.
We look online for ratings of restaurants and doctors by raters we don’t know, and it’s even more of a recommendation to see a top rating from PRD.
Congratulations to the finalists. As ye have toiled, so may ye benefit.