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Best Of Awards Finalists

The Best Of Awards are Greater Twin Cities United Way's Academy Awards for our agency and corporate partners. It's the one time of the year that we bring everyone together to celebrate campaign successes and honor the best of the best. This year, finalists were chosen through a new nomination process that created a more fair and non-biased judging experience.

The Awards Ceremony was held March 31, 2010 at the Orpheum Theatre.

Congratulations to all the finalists and winners!

See what made each company a finalist and discover the winners by clicking on the camera icon next to the category.

Don't want to watch the videos? See a full list of winners.

Best in Show

Small Company	Medium Company	Large Company
Bassford Remele PCL Construction Services, Inc. YWCA of Minneapolis	Faegre & Benson LLP Ingersoll Rand, Climate Solutions (Trane) M.A. Mortenson Company	Land O’Lakes, Inc Target Corporation UPS

Best Agency Partner

Rise, Inc.
Simpson Housing Services, Inc.
YWCA of Minneapolis

Best Ambassador

Capella Education Company
The Toro Company
Xcel Energy Inc.

Best Campaign Committee

3M
General Electric Company
SUPERVALU INC.

Best Caring Connection Project

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
PricewaterhouseCoopers
U.S. Energy Services, Inc.

Best CEO/Executive Involvement

Cargill
Donaldson Company, Incorporated
Land O’Lakes, Inc.

Best Community Builders Campaign

Bremer Financial Services, Inc.
M.A. Mortenson Company
UPS

Best Company Produced Products

American Medical Systems, Inc.
Faegre & Benson LLP
Liberty Diversified Industries

Best Event

Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Ingersoll Rand, Climate Solutions (Trane and Thermo King)
Wells Fargo Minnesota

Best Emerging Leaders Campaign

American Medical Systems, Inc.
SUPERVALU INC.

Best Fast & Fabulous Campaign

Land O’Lakes, Inc.
M.A. Mortenson Company
PCL Construction Services, Inc.

Best Kick-off

Bassford Remele
General Electric Company
Xcel Energy Inc.

Best Labor/Management Partnership

Burlington Northern Santa Fe
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
- Brotherhood Maintenance of Way Employees
- IAMAW District Lodge 77
- TCU Lodge 593
- United Transportation Union
CenterPoint Energy
- I.B.E.W. Local 949
- Gas Workers Local 340
- OPEIU Local 12

Best Multi-Location Campaign

UPS
U.S. Bancorp
Xcel Energy Inc.

Best New Campaign

Advance Auto Parts
American Girl
Sensata Technologies

Best Retiree Campaign

The Toro Company

Best Rise to the Challenge

BAE Systems
Emerson Process Management
The Toro Company

Best Tocqueville Society Campaign

Cargill
Ernst & Young LLP
Xcel Energy Inc.

Best Use of Web/Technology

Faegre & Benson LLP
General Mills, Inc.
Securian Financial Group

Best Video

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Target Corporation
UPS

Best Women's Leadership Council Campaign

3M
Cargill
U.S. Bancorp

Best Year-Round Campaign

Ingersoll Rand, Climate Solutions (Trane)
SUPERVALU INC.
UPS

Other Honors

Outstanding Achievement in Fundraising General Mills, Inc.	Stan Kowalski Award Cindy Kleven, 3M
Delta Innovation Award NorthPoint Foodshelf	United Way Worldwide Summit Awards General Mills and Wells Fargo

Check out the finalists announcement video!

Don't want to watch the whole video? See our smaller snippets:
Part 1 includes Agency Partner, Ambassador, Campaign Committee, Caring Connection Project, CEO/Executive Involvement, Community Builders, Company Produced Products
Part 2 includes Event, Emerging Leaders, Fast & Fabulous, Kick-off, Labor/Management Partnership, Multi-Location, New Campaign, Retiree
Part 3 includes Rise to the Challenge, Tocqueville Society, Use of Web/Technology, Video, Women's Leadership Council, Year Round Partnership, Best in Show (small, medium and large companies)

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