Custom Nonprofit
Awards & Trophies

Honoring service and impact. Meaningful recognition celebrating those who make differences in communities and dedicate themselves to advancing missions that matter.

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Our Nonprofit Trophy Expertise

Bennett Awards creates meaningful recognition celebrating volunteers, donors, community leaders, and staff advancing important missions.

  • Meaningful awards honoring individuals dedicating time and talent to advancing organizational missions

  • Elegant awards celebrating philanthropic support and investment in community impact

  • Recognition honoring individuals and organizations making significant community differences

  • Awards celebrating staff and programs achieving exceptional outcomes advancing organizational purposes

  • Distinguished awards honoring board members providing governance and strategic leadership

  • Prestigious recognition celebrating careers and decades dedicated to community service

Clients We’ve Worked With

American Red Cross logo with a red cross and black text
Logo of the American Cancer Society with a red and blue color scheme, featuring a candle and sword symbol.
UNCF logo with a torch and the slogan 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste'
The XPRIZE logo with a stylized check mark and the word 'XPRIZE' in bold black letters.
Logo featuring a red heart with a smaller black heart inside, above the text 'Hero's Heart' in navy blue.
Logo of the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure with pink ribbon symbol.
Logo of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with a stylized blue wing above the text.
Logo for Make-A-Wish Foundation with the words 'MAKE-A-WISH' and a shooting star graphics.
The PETA logo with white text in a blue circle.

Nonprofit Award Designs

  • OMTEC 2025 award trophy with a large blue ring shape on a black base, inscribed with 'OMTEC 2025 Groundbreaking Device Design Foundation Surgical'.
  • Wooden award plaque with a minimalist line drawing of a rose and text reading 'The Rose Award, awarded to Linda Perryman Evans, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, October 30, 2024.'
  • A metallic heart-shaped sculpture on a black base against a background with colorful digital graphics.
  • A small potted plant with green leaves in a circular wooden container, with a white label on top reading "LA CÔTE LONDON," plants, and a date of August 30, 2017.
  • Wooden prize award with a notch, label reading "PRIZE SPONSOR Aland" and logo, and a metallic mesh plaque with a butterfly icon, inscribed with "XPIZE RAINFOREST Aland".
  • A glass award shaped like a laboratory flask with rainbow-colored stripes, mounted on a purple base with white text.
  • Two awards in gold-colored holders with plaques below, one recognizing Barbara Murray and the other recognizing Pranita D. Tammi from IDSA.
  • Two trophies or awards: one for the 'North Plains Smart Growth Advocates' 2024 Activist Award and another with a design resembling a piece of wood or bark, with a cutout shape.
  • A bronze bell mounted on a wooden base with a plaque that reads "Mental Health America of AZ Hall of Fame 2024 Joshua N. Mozell, J.D."
  • An award plaque with a blue and silver design, honoring John L. Hennessy, Ph.D., for leadership and education in the field of computer science, with logos of various tech companies at the base.
  • A trophy with a vintage boombox on top, engraved with "Black Radio Award Presented to Quincy Jones February 2, 2024."
  • A circular award trophy with an eagle in flight, inscribed with 'Challenger Awards' and 'Conserve Educate Protect,' mounted on a wooden base with a nameplate that reads 'Johnny Morris Conservation.'
  • A wooden award shaped like a triangular prism with a clock face design at the top. The front face displays text including 'Group on Earth Observations' and 'Sustainable Development Goals,' along with '2023 Award' and 'Statistical-Geospatial Integration'.
  • A clear acrylic award with a red and white geometric design resembling a hexagon, engraved inscription on the base, presented to Marie Gargas.
  • A green and yellow award plaque with text about Dirayat New Lathivongkorn and Denisse Rojas Marquez, the 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, honoring immigrant achievements.
  • Award plaque with a logo of a stylized mountain, water, and sun, and text that reads 'State of California River Champion 2024 American Rivers.'
  • A trophy with a curved top reading "Celebrating 36K Years" and "36K Club," dated January 29, 2023, with a black base displaying "Team Lifeline" and a yellow star, flanked by three rectangular blocks in light blue, yellow, and pink.
  • Abstract metallic sculpture on a black square pedestal with a label that reads 'George Eastman Museum'.
  • A USB drive with a Boston-themed design, featuring city landmarks and a map of Boston, with text including "City of Boston" and "Winston Dimsum."
  • A modern, abstract sculpture of a dancer on a black base, with a plaque that reads 'Milena Alberti-Perez'.
  • An award trophy with a circular design and geometric cutouts, mounted on a rectangular base labeled 'Global Wellness Summit' and 'Leader in Workplace Wellness'.
  • A silver and black award trophy with a stylized upward arrow design, placed on a black base.

What Customers Say About Our Nonprofit Awards

“We choose Bennett Awards because of the creativity and beauty we saw in their awards. We are thrilled with the attention to detail and care the team at Bennett Awards showed with our awards. They were an absolute joy to work with - lovely people who truly enjoy what they do. That pride shows through in their work and in their dedication to delivering stellar customer service.”

Sarah Sasman Jacoby, Make a Wish Foundation of America

Case Study

U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Hiring Our Heroes” Awards

With distinguished recipients including PepsiCo, CVS, Union Pacific, API Group, and RecruitMilitary, these weren't just corporate awards; they were tributes to organizations actively bridging the gap between military service and civilian career success.

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Mission-Appropriate Design

Non-profit recognition requires balance—awards must feel meaningful and prestigious while avoiding appearance of excessive spending. Our designs achieve this through thoughtful material selection, elegant simplicity, and focus on lasting quality rather than ostentatious embellishment.

Budget Consciousness

Understanding non-profit budget realities, we offer recognition solutions across diverse price points while maintaining quality standards. Our team helps maximize recognition impact within available resources, ensuring every dollar advances your mission.

FAQs for Custom Nonprofit Awards

  • Non-profit organizations require custom awards honoring volunteer dedication and service, donor appreciation recognizing philanthropic support, community impact celebrating difference-making individuals and organizations, mission excellence for staff achieving exceptional outcomes, board leadership recognition, and lifetime service awards. Each recognition type requires meaningful designs feeling substantial while avoiding appearances of excessive spending that might concern donors or community members.

  • Bennett Awards accommodates non-profit budgets through diverse material options spanning price ranges, economies of scale for multi-recipient programs, pre-designed customizable alternatives reducing design costs, transparent pricing enabling budget-conscious decisions, and recommendations maximizing recognition impact within available resources. Quality needn't require excessive spending—many economical options deliver meaningful premium recognition demonstrating genuine appreciation while respecting mission-focused budgets.

  • Absolutely. Custom non-profit awards incorporate mission-relevant symbolism, organizational logos and colors, cause-related imagery, service representations, community symbols, or abstract concepts reflecting organizational values and purposes. These elements create authentic connections between recognition and missions being advanced—ensuring awards feel personally meaningful to recipients who've dedicated themselves to specific causes rather than appearing generic or disconnected from organizational purposes.

  • Donor custom awards emphasize gratitude for financial support and investment in organizational missions, often featuring elegant sophisticated designs appropriate for professional or home display reflecting philanthropic commitment. Volunteer recognition celebrates time, talent, and service dedication with designs emphasizing hands-on contribution and personal involvement. Both require genuine appreciation demonstration but differ in emphasizing financial partnership versus active service—reflected through design approaches and symbolic elements.

  • Non-profit custom awards achieve this balance through sustainable materials demonstrating environmental values, handcrafted wood suggesting thoughtful creation over mass production, elegant simplicity avoiding excessive ornamentation, quality construction ensuring lasting value rather than disposable recognition, and designs emphasizing meaning over material cost. The goal: recognition feeling substantial enough honoring significant contributions while appearing appropriately mission-focused rather than extravagantly wasteful of donor resources.

  • Yes. Bennett Awards offers custom recognition solutions across diverse budgets including economical crystal awards, cost-effective medallions, customizable pre-designed options, acrylic awards delivering premium appearance at accessible prices, and flexible quantities accommodating small programs. Even modest budgets can provide meaningful custom recognition demonstrating genuine appreciation—quality and thoughtfulness matter more than material cost for recipients motivated by mission advancement rather than recognition value.

  • Custom community awards create visibility opportunities through presentation ceremonies attracting media coverage and community attention, recipients displaying awards in prominent locations exposing organizational brands, social media sharing extending recognition reach, word-of-mouth generated through recognition stories, and award programs themselves becoming community traditions associated with organizations. Strategic recognition programs deliver ongoing visibility value exceeding initial investment through sustained community awareness building.

  • Meaningful custom recognition strengthens engagement through tangible appreciation demonstration, creating emotional connections between individuals and missions, providing lasting visible reminders of contribution significance, inspiring continued involvement through acknowledgment, and communicating organizational values prioritizing people advancing missions. Quality recognition investments deliver returns through sustained engagement, increased giving, continued volunteering, and expanded advocacy—making recognition programs strategic rather than merely ceremonial.

Porsche award trophy with the text 'Restoration Challenge, National Champion, Preservation 2024' attached to a round black base.

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