The Jed Foundation (JED) Wins Prestigious Ragan CSR & Diversity Award | The Jed Foundation

The Jed Foundation (JED) Wins Prestigious Ragan CSR & Diversity Award

T. Michelle Murphy (right), JED Editorial Director, accepts Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Award for Social Impact: Public Health or Safety Initiative.

New York, New York — The Jed Foundation (JED) has been named a winner of Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Awards in the category of Social Impact: Public Health or Safety Initiative. Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Awards celebrate the teams, organizations, and agencies whose work is positively impacting communities, whether internally, locally, or globally.

JED was selected from a wide pool of entries and recognized for its passionate work in protecting emotional health and preventing suicide among teens and young adults.

Its award-winning campaign in the category of Social Impact: Public Health or Safety Initiative incorporated targeted outreach to help teens and young adults build resiliency and life skills, promote social connection, and encourage help-seeking and help-giving behaviors through its national programs, digital channels, partnerships, and media. 

Notable results of JED’s campaign outreach, achieved in the past year, include:

“The Jed Foundation set themselves apart from an outstanding field of entrants. Their work was exceptional and displayed their innovative strategies for achieving success. Congratulations, JED. We look forward to your continued success,” said Brendan Gannon, Senior Marketing Manager for Awards Programs at Ragan Communications.  

“We are humbled to receive Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Award for Social Impact: Public Health or Safety Initiative. The heart of our mission is to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults, giving them the skills and support they need to thrive todayand tomorrow. Through our work, and with the support of so many passionate individuals, 8 million people are presently interacting with JED programs to provide help for themselves or a loved one,” said John MacPhee, JED CEO.

The Jed Foundation has also been recognized for its accomplishment in a special write-up on Ragan’s internationally read news website.

About Ragan Communications

Ragan Communications and PR Daily run 15 awards programs each year, including the prestigious PR Daily Awards, Top Women in Communications Awards, and Digital Marketing and Social Media Awards. Judged by globally regarded experts and featuring multiple categories, these programs honor the top work in communications, PR, marketing, media and HR. Ragan Communications has been delivering trusted news, training and intelligence for more than 50 years to internal and external communicators and business executives via its conferences, webinars, training, awards, subscriptions, and its membership divisions. Its daily news sites—PRDaily.com,  Ragan.com, and RaganWellness.com—are read by more than 600,000 internal and external communicators and HR professionals monthly.


About The Jed Foundation (JED)

JED is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults. We’re partnering with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems. We’re equipping teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other. We’re encouraging community awareness, understanding, and action for young adult mental health.

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Media Contact
Justin Barbo
Director, Public Relations, The Jed Foundation
justin@jedfoundation.org
914-844-4611

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