NCJW Wins Top Communication Awards

November 9, 2007, New York, NY -- The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) once again won top honors from the MarCom Creative Awards for its marketing and communications efforts. The Summer 2007 NCJW Journal: Building Bridges, Bridging Divides earned a Platinum Award -- MarCom's premier prize -- for exceptional magazine standards, and the Winter 2006 NCJW Journal: Women, Equality, and Empowerment Today earned a Gold Award. NCJW's website, www.ncjw.org, also won a 2007 Gold Award for its online excellence, and the Plan A: NCJW's Campaign for Contraceptive Access brochure received an honorable mention. This marks the fourth consecutive year that the NCJW Journal and website have been acknowledged by this prestigious international competition.

The MarCom Creative Awards, administered by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals, recognize the outstanding achievements of marketing and communications professionals. Industry experts critique more than 5,000 entries, identifying companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the field.

"These awards pay tribute to the NCJW's ability to successfully communicate its message, a crucial part of our work on behalf of progressive social change," said NCJW President Phyllis Snyder. "I am deeply proud of what has become a tradition of excellence. Our website and Journal give our volunteer members the tools they need to take action on pressing issues."

NCJW has received a long list of industry honors in recent years, including a 2006 Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association for the NCJW Journal, several Communicator Awards, and a Webby Award for www.ncjw.org. The brochure for BenchMark: NCJW's Campaign to Save Roe is also showcased in the Willoughby Design Group's The Best of Brochure Design 8 (2005) and the book The Design of Dissent.

NCJW is a volunteer organization, inspired by Jewish values, that works to improve the quality of life for women, children, and families and to ensure individual rights and freedoms for all through its network of 90,000 members, supporters, and volunteers nationwide.

Contact:
Emily Alfano
202 296 2588 x5; emily@ncjwdc.org