We are really honored to have won a Stevie Award. This is a tremendous accomplishment, especially for a smaller company like ours. The Stevie is a recognized award, and for us to win legitimizes our efforts in customer support and as a business. With this award, we allow our customers, our employees, our shareholders, and our stakeholders to see the good work we are doing. It creates excitement, reaffirms our mission, and overall contributes and validates the efforts we have been doing.

Thought leadership has often been undervalued, underappreciated, and underutilized in organizations. We want to prove that it does have impact and business value, and in fact, it beats almost all other marketing campaigns by about 160%. We are really grateful for the Stevies to have added thought leadership categories this year, and we are honored to have won the first award in this category.

Winning a Stevie Award is a great motivation to continue all of the endeavors we are doing. It is also recognition that we are doing the right things. Me and my team and all the participants in our ecosystem are honored.

Winning the Stevie Award means a lot to United Way Worldwide and the 1,800 communities we serve in 40 countries around the world. It's a recognition of the impact that we're having on the local level and the long-term recovery we're doing after natural disasters. The Stevie Award raises awareness about the work that we do and puts a spotlight on how we help communities around the world.

The Stevie Awards help keep our organization at the forefront of our industry. Not only does it show our current customers the strength of our brand, but it shows potential customers as well.