The Best Of Awards are Greater Twin Cities United Way's Academy Awards for our agency and corporate partners. It is the one time of the year that we bring everyone together to celebrate campaign successes and honor the best of the best.

Congratulations to our winners!

Take a look at this year's winning companies, announced on March 31, 2010 at the Orpheum Theatre.

View all finalists

This year, finalists were chosen through a new nomination process that created a more fair and non-biased judging experience. Check out the finalists in our unique video annoucement!

View a description of the finalist companies (PDF) by category.

Nomination Process

The only requirement to submit a nomination for the Best Of Awards is that you must be an agency or corporate partner that ran a United Way campaign from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Please note: The deadline for 2009 nominations has passed. We look forward to seeing your submission for next year's Best Of Awards.

Our call for nominations (PDF) includes: FAQs, rules and instructions and category information that made it easy to for companies to submit their nomination.

Check out the 5 easy steps to a Best Of Award nomination (PDF).

See a list of categories (PDF).

View last year’s winners (PDF).

Judging Process

Agency and corporate partners go through the following judging process:

• Nominations are completed by agencies and corporate partners, following the new nomination process. The nomination deadline for the 2009 Best Of Awards has passed. Finalists were announced February 11.
• Completed nominations then go through a first round of judging by United Way staff members to determine three finalists per category.
• Nominations are sent to a second round of judging done with external help from several of our company partners (companies are judged anonymously).
• The winners are determined, but not announced until the awards show!

Best Of Awards 2008

Take a look at last year's award winners, advertisements and an event recap.

Check out more photos from the most recent Best Of Awards!

Questions?

If you have questions, please contact your Workplace Consultant directly or Brianna Goad by e-mail or phone, 612-340-7698.

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