Stories by Mark Renfree

Winner: Imprenta Communications Group – Local Control Funding Formula Awareness In 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Local Control Funding Formula, which is the most comprehensive reform to California’s school funding system in… Continued

Winner: Hill+Knowlton Strategies – #NotYourMascot: Bringing a Human Rights Issue to Center Field The discriminatory name and logo of the Cleveland Major League Baseball team has long been protested by indigenous peoples of North America, but… Continued

Winner: FleishmanHillard – FH4Inclusion FleishmanHillard sought to celebrate its 70th anniversary in a way that spoke to who the company is and what makes it unique, while uniting employees under a single, global rallying cry that would… Continued

Winner: CITGO Petroleum Corporation – Official Fuel Sponsorship for the 2015 Special Olympics Unified Relay Across America CITGO and its employees have a longstanding relationship with the Special Olympics. Having long donated funding and scores of… Continued

Winner: USA Swimming – Diversity & Inclusion Cultural Inclusion Resource Guides USA Swimming is committed to a culture of inclusion and opportunity for people of diverse backgrounds. This year, the organization created resource guides for… Continued

Winner: Catherine Hernandez-Blades, Aflac With a diverse customer base, Aflac strives to mirror this diversity within its workforce and, in turn, effectively communicate the value diversity brings to the company. Catherine Hernandez-Blades is a driving force… Continued

Winner: Burson-Marsteller – Together Being More Greater diversity has been an ideal in the PR discipline for decades, yet like many ideals, it has remained frustratingly out of reach. While progress has been made, many would… Continued

Winner: Aurora Health Care – What is Diversity & Inclusion at Aurora? Although Aurora Health Care had multiple focus areas within its new diversity platform, the company knew that to achieve its goal of being the… Continued

Winner: ATB Financial ATB Financial set out to increase the awareness and understanding of the state of diversity and inclusion at the company by 20 percent and create a more inclusive and safe space for… Continued

Winner: Ascension – Addressing Healthcare Needs of Diverse Communities, One Story at a Time As the largest nonprofit health system in the United States and the world’s largest Catholic health system, Ascension has a history of… Continued