Association & Nonprofit Communication Awards

Your members already know the work is good. This is how everyone else finds out.

APEX is entering its 39th year. Associations, societies, foundations and advocacy organizations are the single largest group of APEX winners — 1,267 awards since 2020, 246 of them Grand Awards, across 242 organizations.

See who has won

Organizations winning APEX awards in association and nonprofit communications — from national associations to volunteer-run societies

Every organization below has won at least one APEX award since 2020. Win counts are totals across all categories.

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

American Society for Nondestructive Testing

American Public Transportation Association

American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

Multiple Sclerosis Association of America

PA State Association of Township Supervisors

Also among the winners: M-NCPPC Prince George's County Planning · Marine Corps Community Services · Oncology Nursing Society · American Society for Engineering Education · American Battlefield Trust · IEEE Computer Society · National League for Nursing · SAE International · National Funeral Directors Association · American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · Lake County Forest Preserves · Jewish Federation of Delaware · Journal of Financial Planning · Nurses Christian Fellowship · HealthyWomen · Hektoen Institute of Medicine · ASHRM

APEX is judged on the work, not the size of the team behind it. The organizations above are the ones you are most likely to recognize, but awards go every year to independent publishers, one-person communications departments, freelancers, small agencies and volunteer-run societies — every entry is judged against the same criteria, whoever submits it.

Judges who have read 2,800+ association entries

More than 2,800 association and nonprofit entries have come through APEX judging in the past seven years alone — no sector sends more. Judges know what these teams are working with: a member magazine, an annual report, an advocacy campaign, a newsletter and a website, often from the same few people. An APEX win is a line your board understands, your members respect, and your next recruiting conversation benefits from.

Respected in your field — and outside it

APEX is not a associations & nonprofits award. It is a communications and publishing award that associations & nonprofits teams win — which is exactly what makes it worth entering. Your work is not judged against a small pool of peers who share your constraints and your vocabulary. It is judged on writing, design, editing and editorial excellence against annual reports, magazines, campaigns and websites from every field APEX covers. Win here and you have two things at once: standing with the people who know your subject, and independent proof that your team can hold its own as communicators anywhere.

Selected winning entries

A cross-section of associations & nonprofits work that has won, one entry per organization. Links go to the entrant's own published work where it is still available.

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State Legislatures Magazine 2025

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

Association & Nonprofit Communication Awards

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Organizations winning APEX awards in association and nonprofit communications — from national associations to volunteer-run societies

Judges who have read 2,800+ association entries

Respected in your field — and outside it

Selected winning entries

State Legislatures Magazine 2025

In Science We Trust? (Audio) Stories from the Field

The 75th anniversary of the Society of Women Engineers

The State of the Science 1 Year On

Manuscript Success: The Writer's Camp Journal

Essentials by TIAA: Financial education for real life.

AACN Advanced Critical Care: Therapeutic Communication With Families of Pediatric Patients

Monitor on Psychology annual Trends issue

Computer "Resilient and Smart Communities" Dec. 2025

American Scientist May-June 2025

United Airline Pilots Strike of 1985

Colleges with Character

Hallowed Ground - Spring 2025

The Professional Counselor – Volume 15, Issue 4

PRS Video Discussions

Where association and nonprofit entries win

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