NEW ORLEANS— Deveney Communication was honored at the Public Relations Society of America New Orleans annual awards ceremony held August 22 recognizing outstanding work in 2001.
The firm took home the most awards for the evening hailing them as the evening’s frontrunner by receiving top awards for all 17 projects the judges considered. Along with the recognition of their perfect score, the evening’s presenter and award chairperson, Chuck Dickey, revealed that such a perfect score had only been attained once before in PRSA’s history—last year when Deveney Communication earned an impressive 14 out of 14.
Among the accolades received, was the prestigious Anvil Award and three Best of Category Awards, both requiring a 96% or better score with only one Best of Category or Anvil Award awarded in any given category. Numerous Awards of Excellence and Merit were also presented to the ecstatic team.
The awards earned by Deveney Communication are attached. In addition to awards bestowed for the firm’s fifth anniversary marketing campaign, top recognition was earned for work with:
·CANstruction (a fundraising event of Second Harvesters Food Bank and American Institute of Architects that gives architects, designers and engineers the opportunity to create sculptures made out of canned and boxed foods)
·Community WebLink (www.communityweblink.org; an online Web portal designed to serve the region’s nonprofit community)
·Hematology and Oncology Specialists (medical practice that provides comprehensive care of people affected by blood disorders, cancer and other malignant diseases through prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment)
·The Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board (www.louisianaseafood.com)
·The March of Dimes (www.mod.org)
·The McFarland Institute (www.tmcfi.org)
·NAACP (www.naacp.org)
·New Orleans Film Festival (www.neworleansfilmfest.com)
PRSA annually presents awards to public relations professionals who demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness, and whose winning programs meet the highest standards of research, planning, execution and evaluation. A panel of judges, which includes public relations professionals, selected the 2002 award recipients.
Deveney Communication is an internationally recognized public relations firm that uses integrated marketing to make their international, national and local clients more successful. The firm has been recognized worldwide within the industry for excellence in developing and implementing strategies using media relations, Internet marketing, community relations and crisis management.
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