Join PR News for the CSR & Legal PR Awards Luncheon on March 8, 2011, noon - 2 p.m., as we salute the year’s most outstanding communications initiatives and programs in the highly competitive and dynamic Corporate Social Responsibility & Legal PR arenas.

At this must-attend industry event, winners and honorable mentions will be honored in over 30 categories for outstanding CSR & Legal PR efforts over the past year. "Like" PR News on Facebook to stay up-to-date on luncheon announcements and for post-event photos!

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>>Location: The National Press Club, 529 14th St NW # 1300, Washington, DC 20045 Get Directions Metro Information
>>Dress Code: Business Casual
>>Hotel Information:  Due to the popularity of the CSR/Legal PR Awards Luncheon, no rooms at the group rate are left. Please go here for a list of local hotels near the National Press Club.

>>Questions?
Contact Saun Sayamongkhun at saun@accessintel.com; 301-354-1694.

>>Do you want to advertise in the special CSR Awards Issue or sponsor the event on March 8 at the national Press Club?  Contact Diane Schwartz, Senior Vice President & Group Publisher, PR News at dschwartz@accessintel.com or 212-621-4964.

Keynote and Guest Presenters:

Keynote: Ralph Reid Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sprint

Guest Presenter John Friedman, CSR-P Senior Director of PR, Sodexo Inc. and Co-founder, Sustainable Business Network of Washington (SB NOW)

Guest Presenter Colleen A. Wilber Vice President of Media Relations, America's Promise Alliance

Legal PR Award Winners

CSR Award Finalists

Annual Report

• The Lifetime Healthcare Companies - "What We Heard, What We Did"
• Southwest Airlines Company - Southwest Airlines One Report™ 
• United States Postal Service - 2009 Sustainability Report

Blog

• Kaiser Permanente - "Dispatches From Haiti"
• Tiller LLC - Rob Densen's Huffington Post Blog: CSR Matters
• USANA Health Sciences - What's Up, USANA?

Cause Branding

• American Beverage Association - School Beverage Guidelines
• DeVries Public Relations - The Downy Touch of Comfort Program
• Gibbs & Soell and Syngenta AG - Weeding Out Hunger with Halex GT Herbicide
• Jiffy Lube International and Cone Inc. - 2010 Jiffy Lube Maintenance Partners for Life Campaign
• Mullen - Men's Wearhouse Attacks "Mancession" with National Suit Drive
• The Walt Disney Company - Disney's Friends for Change: Project Green

Community Affairs

• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company - Prince William Sound Traveling Health and Safety Fair
• Siemens Foundation/Discovery Education - Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• Entergy Corporation - Entergy’s Pre-K Program
• First Choice Power:  Food First
• Oracle Corporation - Oracle Education Initiatives
• Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool - Trailing Earthquake Faults for Public Awareness

Corporate/Community Partnership

• International Paper - Coins 4 Kids
• Oracle Corporation - Oracle’s Commitment to National Geographic’s Mission Blue
• Scripps Networks Interactive Partners with National Urban League
• Toys“R”Us, Inc./UNICEF - Toys"R"Us Brings Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF to Consumers, Building on the Notion of Kids Helping Kids in Partnership with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF
• Viacom - The Get Schooled National Challenge and Tour
• Weber Shandwick Dallas - First on the Scene: American, American Eagle Airlines Provide Relief to Haiti

CSR on a Shoestring

• Fleishman-Hillard/The Allstate Foundation - #Tweet4YWCA Campaign
• Sodexo, Inc. - PB&J for a Day: Sodexo Asks Customers to Eat Plant-Based Meal to Boost Environmental Benefits on Earth Day 2010
• Toys"R"Us, Inc. Encourages Parents to Become Advocates for Children's Safety through the Product Safety Vigilance Program

Diversity Communications

• Kaiser Permanente - Supplier Diversity Communications at Kaiser Permanente
• Peel District School Board - Micro-Web Sites in 40 Languages
• Southwest Airlines  - Join the Conversation: Southwest Airlines First Diversity Summit

Employee Relations

• Coca-Cola HBC Croatia - Bike to Work
• Deloitte - Greening the Dot
• EMD Serono, Inc. - Making a Difference in Society
• Ernst & Young - Ernst & Young Volunteer Wall of Fame

Employee Volunteer Program

• Carmichael Lynch Spong - Hitting It Out of the Park With CLRBI
• Charles Schwab & Co - Schwab Volunteers: Giving Back with Purpose
• Discovery Communications - Discover Your Impact Day
• Ernst & Young - Ernst & Young Volunteer Wall of Fame
• PwC/Edelman - Creating a Culture of Service
• Viacom - Leader in Employee Volunteerism

Environmental Stewardship

• Cone, Inc. - Timberland’s “Don’t Tell Us it Can’t Be Done”
• USANA Health Sciences - USANA Green
• Walmart Announces Goal to Eliminate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Supply Chain with Treehugger.com
• The Walt Disney Company - Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green

Event: CSR/Green Focus or Corporate/Community Partnership

• CA Technologies - Earth Day 2010
• Siemens Foundation/Discovery Education - Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• Edelman - Brita FilterForGood Helps Jack Johnson Tour Reduce Plastic Bottle Water Waste
• Hafslund and PR-operatorene - Hafslund’s Children’s Climate Festival
• MassMutual Financial Group - MassMutual Completes Solar Installation
• Peel District School Board - Leadership Now!
• PwC/Edelman - PwC's Presence at the National Conference on Volunteering & Service

Green PR Campaign

• Hormel Foods and Burson-Marsteller - Leveraging a Progressive New Plant
• Lockheed Martin Corporation - Lockheed Martin Go Green Employee Engagement
• Loyola University Chicago Creates Sustainable Campus and Community
• Sodexo, Inc. - Stop Wasting Food: Sodexo Asks Students to Cut Food Waste to Curb Climate Change
• The Walt Disney Company - Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green

Human Rights Communications

• Euro RSCG Worldwide PR- One Young World
• Honeywell International, Inc. - Honeywell Hometown Solutions - Rebuilding and Strengthening Educational Institutions and Communities in Haiti

Media Relations

• Cone, Inc. - Timberland “Don’t Tell Us it Can’t Be Done” campaign
• Coyne Public Relations - Give a Day Get a Disney Day
• Euro RSCG Worldwide PR - Yele Haiti
• Hafslund and PR-operatorene  - Hafslund’s Children’s Climate Festival
• Mass Mutual Financial Group - Mass Mutual Completes Solar Installation
• PepsiCo - The Pepsi Refresh Project: Driving Awareness and Engagement through Media
• Weber Shandwick Dallas - Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy

Nonprofit/Corporate Partnership

• AstraZeneca Turkey - First Step to First Aid
• Bridgestone & Meals on Wheels - Together, Let's Drive Away Senior Hunger
• Siemens Foundation/Discovery Education - Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• The USA Science & Engineering Festival and Lockheed Martin: Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators
• Southwest Airlines Company - Medical Transportation Grant Program
• Weber Shandwick Dallas - Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy

Philanthropy Communications

• Alyeska Pipeline - Prince William Sound Traveling Health & Safety Fair
• BlueCross BlueShield of Delaware - Blueprints for the Community Brochure
• Euro RSCG Worldwide PR - One Young World
• Euro RSCG Worldwide PR - Yele Haiti
• RF Binder - Banking on Neighborhoods One at a Time: Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence Initiative

Social Media Campaign

• Fleishman-Hillard/The Allstate Foundation - #Tweet4YWCA Campaign
• Fleishman-Hillard/ConAgra Foods Foundation - Champions Against Child Hunger
• Lehigh Valley Health Network - Cell Limits
• PepsiCo - Pepsi Refresh Project: Driving Awareness and Engagement through Media
• Sodexo, Inc. - Sodexo Foundation STOP Hunger Scholarship Program Outreach
• Toys"R" Us, Inc. - Toys"R"Us Invites Customers to "Join Shaq Give Back" to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
• Yahoo! - You In

Stakeholder Engagement

• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company - Prince William Sound Traveling Health & Safety Fair
• ASTRO All Asia Networks Plc (ASTRO) - Kampus Astro Program
• Canada Lands Company - Balanced Scorecard Renewal
• Carmichael Lynch Spong - Hitting It Out of the Park With CLRBI
• DABO & CO - Visa: The Launch of Financial Literacy
• OMV Petrom S.A. - Building a Community Resource Centre - CERC Schela Story

Sustainability/CSR Report

• American Airlines Corporate Responsibility Report
• ArcelorMittal - Our Progress Towards Safe Sustainable Steel
• The Hershey Company - Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2009
• Medtronic - 2010 Corporate Citizenship Report
• Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Inc. - Sustainability CSR Report

Video Program

• Benevity Social Ventures, Inc. - Goodness3.0
• The Walt Disney Company - Disney's Magic of Healthy Living

Workplace Innovation

• Deloitte - Greening the Next Generation
• Euro RSCG Worldwide PR - One Young World
• The Hershey Company - Hershey's Growing Green Together Campaign
• International Paper - Coins for Kids
• Yahoo! - Yahoo! Employee Foundation

CSR Executive of the Year: Marketer

• Leslie Brunt, Program Director, The Pizza Hut® BOOK IT!® Program
• Jack McFadden, Communications Director - Deloitte

CSR Executive of the Year: Community Relations

• Bill Bullard, Director of Corporate Relations for Latin America & the Caribbean - Diageo
• Renee Connolly, Vice President US Communications - EMD Serono

CSR Executive of the Year

• Tom Buckmaster, President of Honeywell Hometown Solutions - Honeywell International
• Stuart Kirby, Regional Head of Brand & Corporate Communications - Diageo PLC
• Tracy Pleschourt, Director of Office Services - Carmichael Lynch Spong

Overall Leader in CSR Practices: Organization with up to 10,000 Employees

• AICPA
• Amerigroup Corporation
• Carmichael Lynch Spong
• Diageo PLC
• VHA, Inc.

Overall Leader in CSR Practices: Organization with between 10,000 and 25,000 Employees

• Henry Schein, Inc.
• Viacom

Overall Leader in CSR Practices: Organization with more than 25,000 Employees

• Honeywell International, Inc.
• Novartis
• Oracle Corporation
• Yum! Brands, Inc.

Legal PR Award Winners

Client Newsletter

• Duane Morris - Duane Morris Alumni Program

Community Relations

• Hellerman Baretz Communications - Bracewell & Giuliani Presents Minute Mentoring® with Dana Perino and Co.

Legal PR Blog

• Hunton & Williams LLP and Jaffe PR - Privacy Blog Influences Global Privacy and Data Security Developments

Marketing Communications

• Jaffe PR - From Branding to Business Development
  

>>The National Press Club
529 14th St NW # 1300
Washington, DC 20045
Get Directions
Metro Information

>>Dress Code: Business Casual

>>Hotel Information:  Due to the popularity of the CSR/Legal PR Awards Luncheon, no rooms at the group rate are left. Please go here for a list of local hotels near the National Press Club.

>>Questions?
Contact Saun Sayamongkhun at saun@accessintel.com; 301-354-1694.

>>Do you want to advertise in the special CSR Awards Issue or sponsor the event on March 8 at the national Press Club?  Contact Diane Schwartz, Senior Vice President & Group Publisher, PR News at dschwartz@accessintel.com or 212-621-4964.