Last Thursday evening, we received some exciting news that we want to share. If you remember back on November 27, 2011, we told you that CURE.org was nominated for a Pixel Award in the category of best non-profit website for 2011. There were two potential awards to win: a judges award and a people’s choice award that involved public online voting. We asked you, our audience of loyal supporters, volunteers, and fans, to vote for CURE.org early and often.

CURE won a Pixel Award!

I’m pleased to announce that CURE.org won the judges choice as best non-profit website. We’re thankful to receive this award, and we congratulate the other nominees that we were up against. There have been some pretty awesome winning sites in the Pixel Awards’s 6-year history, and we’re grateful to now be on that list of recipients.

But that’s not all…

Thanks to you, CURE won both awards!

Thanks to our fans, we also won the people’s choice award in the same category. That’s both awards in the non-profit category! Thank you to everyone who voted. We’re glad to be able to celebrate with you.

We don’t do what we do to win awards, but we’re thankful for the recognition – especially as it raises the profile of the kids and families we serve, and we’re grateful that you were a part of that through your voting.

Recognition

This award wouldn’t be possible without our small team of talented professionals in Pennsylvania who’ve dedicated themselves to love the children and families we serve through CURE’s technology, marketing, and communications efforts, and I’m thankful that God led each of them to CURE. I’m also thankful for our amazing team of CUREkids Coordinators who work tirelessly to tell the stories of the kids that we treat in our hospitals to our community over the web. And finally, I want to recognize and thank all the folks across our network of hospitals and programs who take time out of their schedules to blog. The stories and experiences you share from the field have transformed the way people interact with CURE. Thank you! (I invite even more of our staff to join our blogging team in 2012.)

The standing prayer of the CURE.org team is that God would do things through our work that only He can take credit for. We saw precisely that in 2011, and I pray that He continues to bless our efforts in 2012.

Thanks for being a part of CURE!