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PRSA SF Bay Area Chapter Awards

The Foggies PR Awards

The PRSA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Awards Program (The Foggies) recognizes the San Francisco Bay Area’s best public relations programs and the brightest professionals who bring them to life. Entries should demonstrate the highest standards in our profession and showcase the importance of public relations in the Bay Area business community.  

This awards program is open to public relations and communications professionals from agencies, consultancies, in-house teams and nonprofits from across the Bay Area. You've done the hard work – time to show it off!

 

 

2022 Competition has closed

See this year's winners listed below. 

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Categories & Winners

Chapter Awards:

  • Leadership Award: This award recognizes an individual for exemplary contributions to the PRSA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Finalists are formally nominated by the PRSA-SF Board of Directors, and presented to Awards Committee for consideration.

Team Awards:

  • Small Agency of the Year - 1 - 20 (in Bay Area offices): This award celebrates the accomplishments of a PR agency with less than 20 employees.
  • Midsize Agency of the Year - 20 - 49 (in Bay Area offices): This award celebrates the accomplishments of a PR agency with 20 - 49 employees. Sponsor: Businesswire
  • Large Agency of the Year - 50+ (in Bay Area offices): This award celebrates the accomplishments of a PR agency with more than 50 employees.
  • Best In-House PR Team of the Year - This award celebrates the accomplishments of an in-house PR team.
    • 2019 Winner: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

 

Individual Honors: 

 

Project & Campaign Recognition:

  • D&I Campaign of the Year - This award celebrates a PR campaign that embodies and demonstrates key values in diversity and inclusion.
  • Campaign of the Year - This award celebrates the best overall public relations campaign from the past year. Sponsor: Cision
  • Crisis Communications Campaign of the Year - This award celebrates the top comprehensive crisis communications plan over the past year. 
  • Standout Tactic of the Year - This award celebrates a single tactic that rose above the rest over the past year. Tactics are the activities that a team implements to carry out each strategy.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Honor Award - Each year this award recognizes the top corporate social responsibility communications plans, tactics, programs and/or campaigns for a specific widespread issue.  In 2022, we are looking at efforts related to employee support programs (from mental health support to physical wellbeing programs and beyond). Feel free to email our team at info@prsasf.org for clarification or with any questions.

 

  

About PRSA San Francisco Bay Area

Founded in 1947 and one of the five founding Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Chapters, we are the Public Relations Society of America, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (PRSA-SF). With a robust active membership of more than 300 PR professionals, PRSA-SF functions as a regional division of the Public Relations Society of America, Inc., and serves members within the territory as approved by the Society, including the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area: San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Marin.

 

Thank you to our sponsors! 

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