PR News Nonprofit Award Finalists 2007

It's that time of year again, when the best nonprofit PR initiatives are feted by PR News in the Nonprofit Awards luncheon (National Press Club, Washington, D.C., November 8) and special issue.

Below are this year's finalists, plus our nonprofit "People of the Year." For complete campaign information, or to register for the luncheon, visit prnewsonline.com.

Advocacy Campaign and Lobbying Efforts

  • American Heart Association
  • Fallon
  • Google, Inc. - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Impact Public Affairs
  • World Wildlife Fund - International Tiger Coalition

Corporate Partnership/s

  • Google, Inc. - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Pacific Gas & Electric Co
  • Peppercom
  • Rogers & Cowan
  • Sodexho Foundation

Crisis Management

  • American Veterinary Medical Association
  • AZA and PCI
  • RKConnect
  • Sides & Associates

Employee Communications

  • Aspen Marketing Services
  • Blood Bank of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties
  • Limelight Community
  • Peel District School Board

Event PR

  • Cable Positive
  • Cone LLC - American Heart Association
  • International Code Council
  • JHG-Townsend
  • JS2 Communications
  • Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
  • Ogilvy Public Relations
  • The ONE Campaign

External Publication

  • Children's Medical Center
  • Nevada Cancer Institute
  • Seattle City Light
  • The Allstate Foundation

Fundraising and Membership Campaign

  • Central Virginia Foodbank and Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia
  • Cone LLC
  • Gish, Sherwood & Friends
  • Martz Agency
  • UN Foundation

Interactive PR and Marketing

  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Cone LLC - Alliance For Climate Protection
  • Converseon
  • GMMB
  • MMI
  • Weber Shandwick for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

Internal Publication

  • Baylor Health Care System
  • Ogilvy PR with the Soap and Detergent Association
  • The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Marketing Communications

  • Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
  • American Legacy Foundation & the ad*itive
  • United Cerebral Palsy with BlueCurrent Public Relations
  • YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities

Media Relations Campaign

  • AAA of Northern California
  • Caron Treatment Centers
  • Colorado State University
  • Edelman
  • Jackson Spalding
  • JohnstonWells Public Relations
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovators Awards at Johns Hopkins with

    M Booth & Associates

  • MWW Group
  • Sacramento
  • Weber Shandwick for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

PR on a Shoestring

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - AICPA
  • Impact Public Affairs
  • Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau
  • Philosophy Communications
  • the bounce agency

Press Releases

  • AICPA- Helping Americans Get on the Financial Literacy Track
  • Guise Marketing & PR
  • Robinson Packer Company
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Public Service Campaign

  • Cable Positive
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for Injury

    Prevention and Control

  • CMT
  • Fleishman-Hillard
  • Impact Public Affairs

Web Site

  • Cohn & Wolfe and Starlight Starbright
  • Women of the Storm
  • Nevada Cancer Institute
  • UN Foundation
  • United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Nonprofit PR Professionals of the Year: VP

  • Ellen Lewis - Sesame Workshop
  • Phil Zepeda, America's Second Harvest

Nonprofit PR Professionals of the Year: Director

  • Emily Callahan - Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

Nonprofit PR Professionals of the Year: Manager

  • Tvon-Lourie Keels - Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston

For advertising opportunities, please contact Diane Schwartz at [email protected].