The Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) announced the winners of its Local Image Awards on April 22, 2014 at the Alliance for the Arts. The competition is conducted annually to recognize outstanding public relations programs in Southwest Florida during the last year, and to encourage and promote the development of public relations professionalism. Winners demonstrate the very best examples of innovation, planning and design.
The Grand All Image Award, FPRA’s highest honor, together with an Image Award and a Judges’ Award were presented to Connie Ramos-Williams and Angeli Chin for Quality Life Center Fundraiser: Changing Lives, Transforming Communities.
Other awards presented, were as follows:
Image Award: Jessica Boles for Healthy Minds. Healthy Community Mental Health Awareness Walk; Tiffany Whitaker, Matt Mernin and Samantha Scott, APR, for Get on the Love Boat; Priority Marketing, Frank Gamble and Lee County Homeless Coalition for “The New Face of Homelessness”PSA Series.
Award of Distinction: Priority Marketing for Public Service: 5210; Kevin B. Lewis, SalusCare, Inc., Todd Cordisco, SalusCare, Inc., and Susan Bennett, APR, CPRC, Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. for Merging a Mission: SWFAS and Lee Mental Health Become SalusCare; Phyllis Ershowsky, APR, CPRC, Kate Walter, APR, and Debi Braendle for BBK Pet Camp: A Fur-filled Adventure; 2013 PRU Co-Chairs and 2013 PRU Committee Members for Public Relations University – 2013: Creating Slam Dunk Projects for your Clients; Priority Marketing and Conservancy of Southwest Florida for Conservancy of Southwest Florida – Grand Reopening; Marie Kennedy, m.creativepr and Sixth Annual Cops & Joggers 5K for Running from the cops never felt so good!; Connie Ramos-Williams, Angeli Chin and Kendra Sutton for Pace Center for Girls, Lee: Love that Dress! 5; Connie Ramos-Williams and Nanci DuBois for Lee County Bar Association Res Gestae Magazine; Carla Ulakovic and East County Water Control District for Nurture Nature – Save the Source Bookmark; SalusCare, Inc., Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. and Waterman Broadcasting for Merging a Mission: SWFAS and Lee Mental Health Become SalusCare; Priority Marketing and Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, Inc. for Junior Achievement Laureate Videos; Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida and Department of Communication and Development for Goodwill Thanks You; SalusCare, Inc., Boost Creative and Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. for Merging a Mission: SWFAS and Lee Mental Health Become SalusCare; Samantha Scott, APR, and Tiffany Whitaker for Social Media 101 – Get on the Path to Social Media Success.
Judges’ Award: Phyllis Ershowsky, APR, CPRC, and Kate Walter, APR for Yoga for the Cure; Jessica Boles for Healthy Minds. Healthy Community Mental Health Awareness Walk; Carla Ulakovic and East County Water Control District for A Look through the Ages: ECWCD’s 55th Anniversary Speaker Series; Marie Kennedy, m.creativepr and Sixth Annual Cops & Joggers 5K for Running from the cops never felt so good!; Connie Ramos-Williams, Angeli Chin and Kendra Sutton for Pace Center for Girls, Lee: Love that Dress! 5; Priority Marketing and Alico Family Golf for Alico Family Golf Grand Opening: Press Release; Carla Ulakovic and East County Water Control District for Nurture Nature – Save the Source Bookmark; Tiffany Whitaker, Matt Mernin and Samantha Scott, APR, for Get on the Love Boat; SalusCare, Inc., Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. and Waterman Broadcasting for Merging a Mission: SWFAS and Lee Mental Health Become SalusCare; Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida and Department of Communication and Development for Goodwill Thanks You; SalusCare, Inc., Boost Creative and Susan Bennett Marketing & Media, L.C. for Merging a Mission: SWFAS and Lee Mental Health Become SalusCare.
The Florida Public Relations Association was founded in 1938 and is the oldest public relations organization in the United States. FPRA is dedicated to developing public relations practitioners who, through ethical and standardized practices, enhance the public relations profession in Florida. The Southwest Florida Chapter of FPRA is dedicated to programs and activities for public relations professionals in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties. For additional information, please visit the Southwest Florida Chapter of FPRA website at https://www.fpraswfl.org/.