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Innovation Awards

The awards recognize creative approaches to promoting organization efforts. These awards, presented at The Advocacy Conference each year, recognize outstanding initiatives that showcase creativity, inclusiveness, innovation and organizational relevance. Self-nominations welcomed and encouraged!

Nominations for the 2023 Awards are now closed.

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About the Awards

The Public Affairs Council’s Public Affairs Innovation Awards recognize top organizations in the following categories:

Grassroots Innovation
Awarded to an organization that utilizes and leverages grassroots advocates and activities in new and innovative ways to build relationships with legislators, mobilize their base and advance advocacy strategy
Communications Innovation
Awarded to an organization that uses innovative communications tactics for advocacy that help organizations get buy-in from key stakeholders, activate advocates or educate the public or legislators about their issues
Lobbying Strategy Innovation
Awarded to an organization that finds new and creative ways to connect and work with internal and external stakeholder groups and get them engaged with advocacy efforts or policy priorities

A hand-picked committee of public affairs community leaders will select this year’s innovators. When reviewing applications, committee members will use the following criteria:

Is the strategy adaptable to other organizations?
Was the innovation a unique solution to a problem faced by the organization or a unique fit to the organization’s culture?
Does the innovation demonstrate that it’s not just an innovation for the organization but the industry as a whole?
Could this strategy help other programs overcome their own challenges?
What impact did the innovation have and how was it measured?

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Who Should Apply?

Innovation Awards nominations are open to:

Associations
Corporations
Advocacy groups
Consultants on behalf of any of these types of organizations

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Prize

In addition to being recognized as a national leader in advocacy and political strategy, award recipients receive:

A complimentary registration to The Advocacy Conference
The opportunity to present their creative solutions to fellow attendees during one of the conference’s keynote sessions

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Past Winners

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2022 Innovation Awards Winners
Grassroots Innovation: Vot-ER
Communications Innovation: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Lobbying Innovation: Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA)

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2021 Innovation Awards Winners
Grassroots Innovation: Toyota
Communications Innovation: American Hospital Association
Lobbying Innovation: American Physical Therapy Association

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2020 Innovation Awards Winners
Grassroots Innovation: BlueCross and BlueShield of Minnesota (BCBSM)
Communications Innovation: Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM)
Lobbying Strategy Innovation: Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA)

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2019 Innovation Awards Winners
Grassroots Innovation: International Franchise Association (IFA)
Communications Innovation: Business Roundtable
Lobbying Strategy Innovation: Americans for the Arts and
the Arts Action Fund

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This program is eligible for 6 credits towards the Certificate in PAC & Grassroots Management and 6 credits towards the certificate in Government Relations and Lobbying.

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