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Press Release
RECORDING
FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC
WINS FOUR INDUSTRY AWARDS
National
and international organizations
recognize
RFB&D media expertise
Princeton, NJ (August
1, 2004) — The public affairs staff of Recording for
the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) has garnered four industry
awards for outstanding work to promote the organization. The department
earned an APEX award from Communications Concepts, Inc., an award
of distinction from Communicator Awards, an honors award from
the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), and
an honorable mention from the New Jersey Chapter of the Public
Relations Society of America (PRSA/NJ).
The Magic
of Digital Recording: RFB&D’s 2003 Annual Report and companion
CD were entered into the Communication Concepts sixteenth annual
APEX awards program. Based on editorial content, design and overall
communications excellence, RFB&D won awards of excellence
in two categories: design and layout, and multimedia and interactive
publications.
The
Communicator Awards, an international competition,
also founded to reward excellence in communications, not only
recognized the already successful RFB&D’s AudioPlus®
annual report CD, but also gave RFB&D’s Fall 2003 Impact
Newsletter an award of distinction.
RFB&D’s
annual report was also among over 1,200 entries to be judged in
the 2003 LACP Vision Awards Annual Report Competition. The results
were announced in June 2004, and the public relations team was
pleased to accept an honors award in the employee communications
class, in which the annual report was ranked in the top five out
of 42 entries. The awards were judged by communications
professionals from a broad spectrum of PR functions in Fortune
500 organizations from both the profit and nonprofit sectors.
"RFB&D’s
2003 annual report focused on our development and product launching
of digital textbooks on CD,” says Diane Blaszka, RFB&D’s senior
publications editor. “By using ‘The Magic of Digital Technology’
as a theme, we illustrated the new technology’s benefits in a
more fun, less ‘techie’ way. Since the report highlighted our
new CD production efforts, we also included an accessible companion
CD. It’s an honor to receive recognition for our efforts, and
it helps us to make more people aware of RFB&D’s quality services
for people with print disabilities."
Recording for the Blind
& Dyslexic, a nonprofit volunteer organization
is the nation’s educational library serving people who cannot
effectively read standard print because of a visual impairment,
dyslexia or other physical disability. RFB&D maintains a library
of 98,000 recorded textbooks produced by volunteers working in
28 RFB&D studios across the country. Last year, RFB&D
circulated nearly a quarter of a million titles among its 127,000
members of all ages.
additional
media inquiries:
RFB&D News Desk 1-800-803-7201
media e-mail inquiries
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