PR Daily's Nonprofit PR Awards winners

The organizations receiving PR Daily’s 2018 Nonprofit PR Awards have a diverse array of missions. Children’s welfare, health care, culture, animals and other causes dominated this year’s competition. With their unique communications strategies, these winners were able to stand out from the rest. We’re excited to name this year’s winners. Click on each winner’s name to learn more about the best work we received, and congratulate them on Twitter using the hashtag #PRDAwards. 

Campaigns

Advocacy or Awareness Campaign

WINNER
#LookUp
The Thomas Collective with Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission

Honorable Mentions

  • Stand with Gavin, Precision Strategies with ACLU
  • The Cura Foundation’s Unite to Cure, the 4th International Vatican Conference, The Cura Foundation and Allison+Partners
  • Campaign for Civility, Detroit Regional Chamber
  • Protect Florida Democracy, Sachs Media Group with The Florida Bar
  • Protecting New Jersey Bail Reform, RoseComm with American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
  • Generate Possibilities, Tri-State G&T

Branding or Re-branding Campaign

WINNER
Reshaping the Future for Children
Children's Home Society of Florida

Honorable Mentions

  • #ExcellenceisBuilding, General Building Contractors Association
  • We Are Stronger TOGETHER, Jewish Federation of Delaware
  • Radiant Health Centers Rebrand, (W)right On Communications with Radiant Health Centers

Community-Nonprofit Partnership

WINNER
Adult Literacy XPRIZE Competition
XPRIZE

Honorable Mentions

  • The Great Summer Dish, Atlanta Community Food Bank
  • Blue on the Block, T.D. Jakes Ministries and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office
  • Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage, Bennet Group Strategic Communications with Polynesian Voyaging Society

Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership

WINNER
A Decade in the Making: The Global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online
World Wildlife Fund

Honorable Mentions

  • 2018 United Way Campaign, Nicor Gas
  • Graeter’s Cones for the Cure, RMD Advertising with Graeter’s Ice Cream
  • Graeter’s Chunky Chunky Hippo, RMD Advertising with Graeter’s Ice Cream
  • Race to Finish Pediatric Cancer, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation
  • Don’t Be an Accidental Drug Dealer—A Campaign to Combat Tennessee’s Opioid Epidemic, MP&F Strategic Communications and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Event PR Campaign

WINNER
2018 PA Blue Ribbon Champions for Safe Kids
Nell McCormack Abom Communications with Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance

Honorable Mentions

  • Florida's Foo Foo Festival, DEVENEY with Art, Culture and Entertainment, Inc.
  • Disrupt Dementia, FleishmanHillard with AARP
  • Asplundh Cancer Pavilion Opening Events, Abington—Jefferson Health
  • Ice Cream We Love, The Brand Advocates, Inc.

Executive Visibility Campaign

WINNER
Dr. Tony Slonim Thought Leadership Campaign
Renown Health

Honorable Mentions

  • • Ascension Thought Leadership Strategy, Ascension
  • • Executive Visibility, College of DuPage Marketing and Communications Department

Fundraising Campaign

WINNER
Vinnies CEO Sleepout Queensland 2018
Rowland with St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland

Honorable Mentions

  • Second Chance Lemonade Stand, Compassion International

Influencer and Donor Relations Campaign

WINNER
Home is the Key 2018
Habitat for Humanity with Porter Novelli

Marketing Campaign

WINNER
#ExcellenceisBuilding
General Building Contractors Association

Honorable Mention

  • Mouths of Babes Campaign, Tarrant County College

Media Relations Campaign

WINNER
The New England Center for Children Media Relations Campaign
The New England Center for Children

Honorable Mentions

  • Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage, Bennet Group Strategic Communications with Polynesian Voyaging Society
  • Health Pools 2018, Sachs Media Group with The Water Quality & Health Council
  • Pro Bono PR Support for Save Purnell Today, Gillian Small Public Relations with Save Purnell Today benefitting the Wylder Nation Foundation
  • Transforming NYU Langone Health’s Campus, NYU Langone Health
  • 2018 PA Blue Ribbon Champions for Safe Kids, Nell McCormack Abom Communications with Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance
  • Spring Focus on Consumer Fraud, AARP

Social Media Campaign

WINNER
Boosting Engagement Across the Nation with “Philly Heaven in a Box”
Visit Philadelphia

Honorable Mentions

  • • AutismOklahoma PieceWalk and 5K, Koch Communications and AutismOklahoma
  • • National Nutrition Month Social Media, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • • Women of Macon-Bibb, Macon-Bibb County Office of Public Affairs

Creative PR Assets

Annual Report

WINNER
Annual Report
VISIT Milwaukee

Honorable Mentions

  • Annual Report, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
  • Public Affairs Annual Report, Macon-Bibb County Office of Public Affairs
  • 2017 Annual Report to the Community and Report on Philanthropy, University Hospitals

Blog

WINNER
Health Beat
Spectrum Health

Mobile App

WINNER
Honorable Mention: N4L Street: Pathway to Prosperity Game App
GMc and Company, Inc. with City of New Orleans

Print Publication

WINNER
Food and Nutrition Magazine
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Honorable Mentions

  • 2017 Illustrated Brochure, Moonsail North with Educare California at Silicon Valley
  • "Insights: Developments at The New England Center for Children" newsletter, The New England Center for Children
  • Five Rules of the College and Career Game, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
  • Northwood Live More Community Paper, Northwood

Video

WINNER
Abbigail's Story
The Change Foundation

Honorable Mentions

  • A Difference for One, PHASE ONE Foundation and Creel Studio
  • The Legacy of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, Hoegger Communications with Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra
  • My Hospice: Rudy's Story, Schmidt Public Affairs with National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  • Food and Nutrition Heroes in Action video, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Reflecting on a Moment video, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  • VMX 2018 Goes Back to the Future!, North American Veterinary Community and InfraRed Creative

Website

WINNER
Health Beat
Spectrum Health

Honorable Mention

  • Truck Driver Appreciation Week, RMD Advertising with Southern Recipe

Grand Prize

Nonprofit PR Campaign of the Year

GRAND PRIZE
Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage
Bennet Group Strategic Communications with Polynesian Voyaging Society

Honorable Mentions

  • Generate Possibilities, Tri-State G&T
  • Feeding Our Communities, Sachs Media Group with Farm Share
  • Pan-Mass Challenge 2017—Records are Meant to be Broken, Cone with Pan-Mass Challenge