Announcing PR Daily’s 2020 Nonprofit PR Awards finalists

PR Daily’s 2020 Nonprofit PR Awards finalists created innovative campaigns and projects for important initiatives and causes. They were instrumental in helping to boost awareness for these often underrecognized and underfunded initiatives.

We’re excited to announce this year’s finalists. Read on to see the work that has impressed our judges, and stay tuned for our winners announcement.

CAMPAIGNS

Advocacy or Awareness Campaign

• Academy’s COVID-19 resources, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• “Celebrating the Realtor® Heart.” Florida Realtors®
• Children’s Health 2019 Beyond ABC Campaign Builds Critical Dialogue to Addresses Mental Health Crisis, Children’s Health
• Lolli: The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About, No Fixed Address
• SickKids Airbnb, No Fixed Address Inc.
• TRUST CAMPAIGN: # WE ARE PART OF A NEW GENERATION THAT TRUSTS, USAID’s Alliances for Reconciliation (PAR), implemented by ACDI/VOCA
• Your Risk Is Real, National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• The War Inside, Volunteers of America

Branding or Rebranding Campaign

• INLIVIAN: Housing Redefined, INLIVIAN: Housing Redefined
• The Oklahoma State University Rebrand: One University, One Logo for All, Oklahoma State University
• Urban Green Lab Rebranding Campaign, GS&F

Community-Nonprofit Partnership

• At-Home Learning / Organizational Coronavirus Responses, PBS SoCal and KCET
• Extra Life Hackathon, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
• IHOP Kid Chef, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
• Ocean Conservancy’s Partnership with Miami Super Bowl Host Committee, Ocean Conservancy
• One with the Aetas, Megaworld Foundation, Inc.
• The Power of Sport, Noisy Trumpet

Crisis Communications Campaign

• Overlake’s COVID-19 Response, Overlake Medical Center and Clinics
• Public Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis

Event PR and Marketing

• Children’s Health 2019 Beyond ABC Symposium Spurs Critical Dialogue about Mental Health, Children’s Health
• Extra Life United: Online Edition, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
• Miracle Home in Real Life, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Fundraising Campaign

• Give to the Max IX, Habitat for Humanity of Collier County

Marketing Campaign

• 2019 Golden Apple Awards Campaign, The Harbinger Group
• Children’s Health Expands Email Marketing Program to Increase Awareness, Deepen Relationships, Children’s Health
• “More Than” Campaign, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology / TCS Education System
• No Kid Hungry Live, No Kid Hungry

Media Relations Campaign

• Children’s Health Sparks Change, Awareness with Mental Health PR Campaign, Children’s Health
• Dr. Michael Horowitz, TCS Education System
• Lolli: The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About, No Fixed Address
• “Newsjacking” COVID-19 with Mitacs research and innovation, Mitacs
• Public Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis
• Shining a Light on Child Sex Trafficking in the US, RoseComm for Shared Hope International
• SickKids Airbnb, No Fixed Address Inc.
• The National Headache Foundation, The Motion Agency
• Western Golf Association Evans Scholars Foundation, Dittoe Public Relations

Social Media Campaign

• Community Corner, The Lundquist Institute
• Hope in Your Hand – Bringing online counseling to those in need, Children’s Home Society of Florida

Visual Storytelling

• “Celebrating the Realtor® Heart”, Florida Realtors®
• Guardians for the Homeless, California Hospital Association
• Lolli: The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About, No Fixed Address
• “Telling Our Stories: Real Lives of People with Developmental Disabilities in Georgia” (i.e. GCDD Storytelling Project), Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities
• We Built This Skyline, General Building Contractors Association

CREATIVE PR ASSETS

Annual Report

• Annual Impact Report, AltaMed Health Services
• Annual PR & Marketing Report, Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
• Annual Report, Health Center Partners

Blogs/Articles

• Children’s Health Blog Strategy Focuses on Search, Engagement to Achieve Record-Breaking Results, Children’s Health
• INSIGHT blog, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology / TCS Education System
• “Rewriting the Script”, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology / TCS Education System

Digital Publication

• Megaworld Foundation @ 20, Megaworld Foundation, Inc.
• UNBOUND Digital Magazine, Saybrook University / TCS Education System

Print Publication

• connect, an information and resource guide, Area Agency on Aging 1-B
• INSIGHT Magazine, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology / TCS Education System
• Megaworld Foundation @ 20, Megaworld Foundation, Inc.
• REACH Magazine, Tarrant County College
• Trust Talk Magazine, Better Business Bureau Serving the Heart of Texas
• University of Utah Magazine, University of Utah

Video

• Megaworld Takes a Stand for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Megaworld Foundation, Inc.
• The War Inside, Volunteers of America

Website

• Children’s Health Redesigns, Launches On-Site Search Function to Create Best-In-Class Website, Children’s Health
• Decade of Difference, TCS Education System

GRAND PRIZE

Nonprofit Communications Professional of the Year

• Sally Crocker, HSC School of Public Health

Nonprofit PR Campaign of the Year

• SickKids Airbnb, No Fixed Address Inc.

Nonprofit PR Team of the Year

• Building Momentum for Social Good, Momentum Communications Group
• PR Team, Better Business Bureau serving the Heart of Texas