{"id":32661,"date":"2021-05-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=32661"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T22:30:37","slug":"ppec-wins-national-1st-place-award-for-covid-19-hope-isnt-cancelled-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/ppec-wins-national-1st-place-award-for-covid-19-hope-isnt-cancelled-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PPEC Wins National 1st-Place Award for COVID-19 \u201cHope Isn\u2019t Cancelled\u201d Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative (PPEC) recently took a first-place gold title in the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association\u2019s Spotlight on Excellence Awards in the \u201cBest Digital Storytelling\u201d category for their \u201cHope Isn\u2019t Cancelled\u201d video. The video, released in June 2020, explained the co-op\u2019s multi-faceted campaign to motivate the community at the peak of the pandemic when many members were struggling both financially and emotionally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PPEC ran billboards reminding the community that the co-op\u2019s founding values (Hope, Kindness, and Love) were not cancelled, despite the event cancellations happening globally. The co-op also launched a Good News Dashboard on their website, where anyone could submit stories of positivity happening locally \u2013 a reminder that, just as the co-op did during its founding in 1935, the community and neighbors must unite for the greater good, take action to help each member, and have hope for a brighter tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PPEC also partnered with the United Way of Paulding County to sell \u201cHope Isn\u2019t Cancelled\u201d yard signs, as well as running inspirational ads on social media and in the cooperative\u2019s monthly magazines, Ohio Cooperative Living and Indiana Connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow more than ever, these themes hold true to our values as co-op members, as community leaders, and as small businesses trying to stay open during these challenges,\u201d said PPEC CEO George Carter in the award-winning video. \u201cAs we continue to navigate the uncharted waters of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must remember that regardless of how our lives are impacted, some things do not change. The most important things aren\u2019t cancelled. How we go forward and how we treat strangers, members, friends, and family will continue to define us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning video can be viewed on PPEC\u2019s website at www.PPEC.coop or on YouTube at www.YouTube.com\/PauldingPutnamElectricCoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contest winners are recognized annually during the CONNECT conference, a national conference for communications and marketing professionals, to be held virtually in June, due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. As with years past, winning entries are available for all electric cooperative communicators to view online at cooperative.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information about the award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual Spotlight on Excellence Awards program recognizes a body of outstanding work in 16 categories produced by electric cooperative communication and marketing professionals from across the country. Cooperative communicators and marketing professionals submitted more than 720 entries in the Spotlight on Excellence program for 2021. Faculty members from the University of Missouri \u2013 Columbia and University of South Carolina, as well as noted professionals in the fields of marketing, web design and digital communications, and newspapers judged the event, which uses a finite scoring system to determine the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NRECA is a national trade association representing more than 900 consumer-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperatives, public power districts, and public utility districts in the United States. From growing suburbs to remote farming communities, electric co-ops serve as engines of economic development for 42 million Americans across 56 percent of the nation\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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