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March 30, 2011 on 3:36 pm

The Starlight Children’s Foundation presented a set of Bennett recognition awards to a group of committed, generous supporters, including philanthropists Paris, Nicky and Kathy Hilton, as well as Do Won Chang, the CEO and Founder of Forever 21.

The Hiltons received the Starlight’s Heart of Gold Award. These recognition awards are presented to individuals who have a deep commitment to children and generous hearts. Kathy, Nicky and Paris Hilton have made significant contributions of their time and resources to the Starlight Children’s Foundation’s programs that are focused on improving the lives of seriously ill children and their families. Appropriately, the unique Bennett awards design “Heart of Gold” was used for these achievement awards.

Do Won Chang received the Starlight Children’s Foundation’s Jacki Carlish Humanitarian Award in recognition of his commitment and work to help children and families everywhere. His Chang 21 Foundation has provided aid and support to a number of charities and humanitarian programs, including the Starlight Children’s Foundation. The Bennett recognition awards design “Succeed” was used for this well-deserved achievement award.

These unique Recognition trophies were presented at the Starlight Children’s Foundation’s annual gala, called “A Stellar Night”. This event was held March 26, 2011 at the Century Plaza Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles. The event and awards presentation was co-hosted by Jenni Pulos, from Bravo’s “Flipping Out”, and actress Bailee Madison from “Just Go With It”.

For more than 25 years, the Starlight Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to helping seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear, and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. Starlight’s programs have been proven to distract children from their pain, help them better understand and manage their illness, and connect families facing similar challenges so that no one feels alone. Through a network of chapters and offices, Starlight provides ongoing support to children, parents and siblings in all U.S. states and Canadian provinces with an array of outpatient, hopital-based and Web offerings. Programs are also delivered internationally through affiliates in Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

March 23, 2011 on 1:58 pm

Bennett Awards recently produced a set of unique recognition awards for the Independent Music Awards (IMA’s). These achievement awards were sponsored by “Sounds Like Fire”, an organization and website committed to promoting independent music. Sounds Like Fire enables independent artists to market their own music. Sounds Like Fire used the unique awards design “Performance” for these achievement awards.

Recognition trophies were awarded to winners of four categories: 1) Artist of the Year; 2) Hot Hand Award for Music Composer of the Year; 3) Wild Fire Award for Breakout Band of the Year; and 4) Strange Noise Award for Most Original Artist of the Year. These awards were presented at the Sounds Like Fire 2011 Independent Music Award Ceremony, held February 24, 2011, at Casey’s Lounge in Los Angeles.

The Independent Music Awards were mounted on black marble bases, and featured personalized engravings with the name of the award, Sounds Like Fire name and logo, and name of the recipient.

March 16, 2011 on 2:34 pm

Facebook, Inc. recently commissioned Bennett Awards to design and produce a custom awards design for a worldwide programming contest. Bennett Awards created the custom trophy for use as the “Facebook Hacker Cup”, a perpetual award to be used for an annual coding competition. This was the inaugural year for the competition.

The event started with an online competition involving 11,768 contestants from around the world attempting to solve some difficult algorithmic coding challenges. 25 finalists emerged from this online phase, and were invited to Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters for the finals, held March 12, 2011. Each contestant had two hours to solve three programming challenges. The answers were graded, and a winner was announced.

The winner, Petr Mitrichev, received a $5,000 cash prize, and his name was engraved in the perpetual trophy created by Bennett Awards. Bennett Awards worked collaboratively with Facebook to create this unique custom awards design. The unique awards design is based on the Hacker Cup logo, and features a raised fist with the word “HACK” embedded in it. The fist was created in brushed pewter, and its surface features a grid-like texture combining patina inlays and brushed pewter edges. The perpetual trophy is mounted on a concrete base. The base has a metal plate with the name of the award at the top fo the base, and, beneath that plate, smaller metals plates engraved with the winners’ names will be added each year. The custom trophy will be displayed in the lobby of Facebook’s headquarters. A closer look at the trophy can be seen here: “Facebook Hacker Cup”.

March 9, 2011 on 3:49 pm

A set of Bennett recognition awards were recently used for the 2011 “Women of Achievement Awards”. These recognition awards, which are sponsored by Women’s Project, honor women of exceptional achievement in various fields whose personal and professional lives have served as an inspiration. Women’s Project selected the unique awards design “Aspire” for these prestigious awards. The 2011 recipients of these distinctive awards were Babe Neuwirth, a two-time Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner for her portrayal of Lilith Crane on “Cheers” and “Frasier”; Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, a noted fashion model, philanthropist and real estate investor; and Mindy Grossman, the Chief Executive Officer of HSN (Home Shopping Network).

The Women of Achievement recognition awards ceremony was held March 7, 2011, at ESPACE in New York City. Kathleen Turner served as host for this event. This is the second straight year Bennett recognition trophies have been used for these awards. In 2010, Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne and Susan Vega were the recipients of these achievement awards.

Women’s Project is the nation’s oldest and largest company dedicated to producing and promoting theater created by women. Women’s Project is the magnetic force field for innovative artists and adventurous theater-goers from around the world.

March 2, 2011 on 4:47 pm

Mariah Carey, the Jeff Gordon Foundation, and other notable donors were among the recipients of new custom awards created by Bennett Awards for the National Make A Wish Foundation. Bennett Awards created a set of 4 new custom awards designs for Make A Wish for use as recognition awards for different major donor categories.

One custom trophy design features two dynamic stars – one solid, the other cut-out – being held up by a streaming ribbon. This award is given to members of the Hope Stout Society, who have contributed more than $1,000,000 in cumulative individual giving. Hope Stout was an incredible, generous child who suffered from a rare form of bone cancer. Hope’s wish was to raise enough money to grant every other child that was waiting for a wish in her Make A Wish region their own wish. Hope’s request ended up raising over $1,000,000.

The other three custom award designs were developed for three other major donor categories: 1) the Chris Greicius Society of Strength, which represents over $100,000 in cumulative individual giving; 2) the Chris Greicius Society of Hope, which represents over $10,000 in annual planning giving; and 3) the Chris Greicius Society of Joy, which represents over $10,000 in annual giving.

Each of these three custom trophies is a variation on a common theme: a star profile mounted on top of metal circles. Each circle is engraved with a word related to the donor category it is presented to: Strength, Hope and Joy. As an additional variation, each of the stars features a different finish: silver for Strength, brushed pewter for Hope, and Gold for Joy. The design style of the stars is purposefully innocent and unsophisticated, representing an image that a Make A Wish child might have created. These awards are named in honor of Chris Graicius, whose inspirational story started the Make A Wish foundation.

Each of these recognition awards is created in pewter, and mounted on a black marble base. The marble bases are engraved with the Make A Wish Logo, award name, recipient name, and year of presentation. These awards can be seen in more detail by clicking the following link: : “Make A Wish Custom Awards”.