Advocacy Campaign and Lobbying Efforts

Co-Winner: Illinois Policy Action - Defending Illinois’ fair, flat tax

Co-Winner: United Nations Foundation, Girl Up Campaign - Girls Count Act

Honorable Mentions:

• Boys & Girls Clubs of America - Great Futures Campaign

• Havas Worldwide Paris - The Airfood Project

• The National Alliance on Mental Illness - NAMI #Act4MentalHealth Campaign

• NSF International - Campaign for Safer Supplements

• Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) - Hosting the World’s Mineral Industry and Canada’s Elected Representatives

• Weber Shandwick on behalf of Siemens - The Baton Pass

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Blogs

Winner: Sierra Club - Coming Clean

Honorable Mention:

• Illinois Policy Institute - "Dewonked"

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Branding/Rebranding

Co-Winner: Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility - Formerly The Century Council

Co-Winner: Orbis International

Honorable Mentions:

• ICSC

• Imprenta Communications Group, Inc. – On Lok Lifeways

• King Media and the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition – ICE 5-Year and Affordable Housing Plan

• US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform – Restoring Balance. Ensuring Justice: A Re-Branding for Effective Change

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Corporate/Nonprofit Partnerships

Winner: UN Foundation - Walgreens

Honorable Mentions:

• ASPIRE Communications - Cell Phones for Soldiers and AT&T Provide a Lifeline for America’s Bravest

• Discovery Education - Manufacture Your Future

• DoSomething.org - Sprint

• Weber Shandwick - Prudential and the Special Olympics 2014 USA Games

• Weber Shandwick on behalf of Siemens - The Baton Pass

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Event PR

Winner: Copacino+Fujikado - The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Asks: Do You Know Bruce?

Honorable Mentions:

• American Society of Clinical Oncology - 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting Press Program

• Child Care Resource Center - 5th Annual Laps4Literacy Event

• Henson Consulting - Navy Pier Announces $20 Million Legacy Gift

• The TASC Group - Athlete Ally's and All Out's Principle 6 Campaign

• United Nations Foundation - Social Good Summit

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Marketing

Co-Winner: Golin on behalf of PetSmart Charities – The Journey Home: A Rescue Waggin’ Story

Co-Winner: The Zeno Group - The Allstate Foundation’s Purple Purse

Honorable Mentions:

• EngenderHealth – Expanding access to international family planning

• High10 Media  - Deaf Film Camp

• King Media and the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition - ICE 5-Year Fair and Affordable Housing Plan

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Media Relations

Winner: National Education Association - Students Before Profits: The fight against corporate education reform in York, PA and nationwide

Honorable Mentions:

• American Institute of CPAs - Costs of Summer

• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Tartaglia Communications - SPARK: Promoting a New Science Competition

• The Hauser Group - Fair Saint Louis 2014

• Henson Consulting - Destination Solar System Launches at Adler Planetarium

• International Justice Mission - The Locust Effect

• The National Audubon Society - Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report

• Partnership for Drug-Free Kids – National Study: Teens Report Higher Use of Performance Enhancing Substances

• Porter Novelli - Center for Civil and Human Rights Opening Day Celebration Atlanta

• The Zeno Group – The Allstate Foundation’s Purple Purse

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Natural Disaster/Crisis Communications

Winner: The Allstate Foundation and Points of Light - Disaster Preparedness Kit-Building Events

Honorable Mentions:

• GroundFloor Media - Establishing ColoradoUnited as the Brand and Voice of Colorado’s Recovery from the 2013 Floods

• Singer Associates, Inc. – Children’s Hospital Oakland

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PR on a Shoestring Budget

Co-Winner: FleishmanHillard - The St. Baldrick's Foundation 

Co-Winner: Meet Minneapolis - I Want to Marry You in Minneapolis 

Honorable Mentions:

• allen & gerritsen - Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life

• ASPIRE Communications - ASPIRE Races to the Rescue of Rescue Ranch

• Brevard Public Schools - Financial Facts Informational Campaign

• Denha Media Group - Detroit's Loyola High School: A Plea to Pope Francis

• Harden Communications Partners - East Bay Vintners Alliance: Urban Wine Xperience

• United Nations Foundation, Girl Up Campaign - #GIRLHERO campaign

• Weber Shandwick with Reboot - Taking a Tech Detox: Nat’l Day of Unplugging

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Public Affairs / Issues Management

Winner: Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications - The Chicago Community Trust 

Honorable Mentions:

• Finn Partners on behalf of the D.C. Justice Grant Administration - "Show Up, Stand Out"

• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - Vision Plan: Imagine the Future of Open Space

• Singer Associates, Inc. - City of San Bruno

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Public Service

Winner: The TASC Group - Athlete Ally's and All Out's Principle 6 Campaign 

Honorable Mentions:

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Identify the Signs of Communication Disorders

• Home Front Communications - Buckle Up for Life: It’s time we all get it right

• Home Front Communications - See Tracks? Think Train! “It’s No Contest” Campaign

• Imprenta Communications Group, Inc. - Wage Theft: Public Education

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Publications

Co-Winner: American Society of Clinical Oncology - The State of Cancer Care in America: 2014

Co-Winner: Pioneer Human Services

Honorable Mentions:

• Compassion International - Compassion Magazine

• Cultural Vistas - We Are Cultural Vistas, 2013 Annual Report

• Nexus – Cornerstone Magazine

• Reputation Architects - Enhancing Lives, Transforming Care: ArchCare 2013 Report to Stakeholders

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Social Media

Co-Winner: JPA Health Communications - Melanoma Research Foundation: #GetNaked

Co-Winner: Pets Add Life - American Pet Products Association’s Non-Profit Campaign

Honorable Mentions:

• American Heart Association - EmpowerMEnt Challenge

• EngenderHealth - Expanding Access To International Family Planning

• The New York Public Library - #ireadeverywhere

• Shriners Hospitals for Children - Fezzy Gets His Name

• United Nations Foundation - MDG500 campaign

• United Nations Foundation, Shot@Life - Blogust campaign

• Weill Cornell Medical College - “A Virtual Graduation” the Launch of Weill Cornell’s Instagram Platform

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Social Responsibility

Winner: Weber Shandwick and Yum! Brands - World Hunger Relief 

Honorable Mentions:

• The Allstate Foundation: #GetThereSafe - The Zeno Group

• Dosomething.org – H&M

• Imprenta Communications Group, Inc. - Ethiopia Health Aid

• Mediators Private Limited - OUP Antipiracy Awareness Campaign

• Shriners Hospitals for Children - On Track to a Safe Summer

• The TASC Group -Athlete Ally's and All Out's Principle 6 Campaign

• The Zeno Group - Allstate Foundation Purple Purse

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Video and/or Podcast

Co-Winner: EngenderHealth - Expanding Access to International Family Planning

Co-Winner: Singer Associates - The Gorilla Foundation

Honorable Mentions:

• AXON: National Hemophilia Foundation - What Schools Should Know: Having a Student with a Bleeding Disorder Video

• Reputation Architects Inc. – Transforming Lives: ArchCare 2014 Gala Fundraising Video

• Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust – Encore Prizes for Exceptional Organizations

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Website

Winner: American Association for Cancer Research

Honorable Mentions:

• Alcoa Foundation / Discovery Education - Manufacture Your Future

• American Society of Clinical Oncology - Redesign of CancerProgress.Net for ASCO's 50th Anniversary

• National Association for Music Education - Broader Minded: Think Beyond the Bubbles

• Orbis International

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Association/Nonprofit Team of the Year

Winner: United Nations Foundation - Connecting you and the UN

Honorable Mentions:

• ASCD - Communications Team

• Shriners Hospitals for Children

• Small Business Majority - Communications Team

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Nonprofit Communicator of the Year

Winner: Angela Peluso – Verizon Foundation

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