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Engage for Good Announces 2026 Halo Award Winners, Honoring Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships

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FDX FedEx was recognized as 'Best of the Best' for its long-running global health logistics partnership with Orbis International, which restored and protected sight for patients in underserved communities. This highlights a successful and impactful corporate-nonprofit collaboration. AMR American Airlines received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Raises $5 Million for Stand Up To Cancer' initiative, demonstrating a successful cause marketing effort that generated significant funds for a charitable cause. MAT Mattel received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Barbie's First Barbie Doll with Type 1 Diabetes' initiative, recognizing a successful cause product that raised awareness and support for a specific health cause. AXP Ameriprise Financial received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Angel Foundation's Financial Care Program,' recognizing a strong direct service initiative that provided significant support to those in need. CSCO Cisco Systems received a Silver Halo Award for its 'Crisis and Connectivity' initiative with USA for UNHCR, acknowledging a valuable direct service partnership that addressed critical needs. INFY Infosys received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Building Bridges: Restoring Futures in Ukraine' initiative, recognizing a significant education initiative with a positive impact on a critical global issue. PYPL PayPal/Venmo received a Gold Halo Award for its 'LA Wildfire Relief' initiative, highlighting a successful emergency response partnership that provided critical aid during a disaster. PayPal's CEO was also recognized as Impact Leader of the Year. UAL United Airlines received a Silver Halo Award for its 'Good Leads the Way' initiative with Airlink, recognizing a strong emergency/disaster response partnership that provided essential support. EL L'Oréal Paris received a Silver Halo Award for its 'Stand Up Against Street Harassment' initiative, recognizing a positive effort in gender and LGBTQ equality. CAMP The Campbell's Company received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Full Futures: A School Nutrition Partnership,' highlighting a strong local-impact initiative focused on improving child nutrition. SBUX Starbucks Coffee Company received a Silver Halo Award for its 'Partner-Inspired Giving: The Starbucks Foundation's Neighborhood Grants,' recognizing a successful local-impact initiative that supported community needs. JACK Jack in the Box received a Gold Halo Award for its 'One Curly Fry at a Time' initiative, recognizing a successful point of sale campaign that supported a charitable cause. LYFT Lyft received a Silver Halo Award for its 'Round Up & Donate for Goodwill' initiative, highlighting a successful point of sale campaign that facilitated charitable giving. DDS Dentsply Sirona received a Gold Halo Award for its 'Global Cleft Care' initiative, recognizing a significant technology for good partnership that addressed a critical global health issue.

FedEx and Orbis International Named Best of the Best

PALM SPRINGS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / April 24, 2026 / Last night, Engage for Good announced the winners of the 2026 Halo Awards, recognizing 28 gold and silver recipients across 14 categories for outstanding corporate-nonprofit partnerships that delivered measurable social impact in 2025. The winners were honored at the Halo Awards Gala, held during the Engage for Good Conference.

Leading this year's class as Best of the Best is FedEx and Orbis International for Delivering Sight Worldwide. The long-running global health logistics partnership restored and protected sight for patients in underserved communities around the world.

"The campaigns in this year's Halo Award class didn't happen in a vacuum," said Engage for Good CEO Muneer Panjwani. "They happened during a year of real pressure, budget cuts, political headwinds, and a lot of noise about whether this kind of work still has a place at the table. And these gold and silver Halo winners proved that this work is still impactful and transformative for communities and businesses. What strikes me every year, and this year more than most, is that the best partnerships aren't just rigorous. They're also joyful. There's something genuinely alive in the work when a company and a nonprofit find each other and decide to build something real together. We are so proud to celebrate their work."

2026 Halo Award Winners

Best Advocacy or Policy Initiative

Gold: GAMUT Seal of Approval (Gamut Management + Runway of Dreams)

Silver: The Health in Action Collaborative (Sanofi + National Association of Community Health Workers + NationSwell)

Best Cause Marketing Initiative

Gold: American Airlines Raises $5 Million for Stand Up To Cancer (American Airlines + Stand Up To Cancer)

Silver: ON HOLD (Meals On Wheels America + Public INC)

Best Cause Product Initiative

Gold: Barbie's First Barbie Doll with Type 1 Diabetes (Mattel + Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF))

Silver: Get a Glove, Give a Glove (Wilson Sporting Goods + Pitch In For Baseball & Softball)

Best DEIB Initiative

Gold: Black Girls Code Reimagined (Pastilla Inc. + Black Girls Code)

Silver: Black Joy (UGG + The Loveland Foundation)

Best Direct Service Initiative

Gold: Angel Foundation's Financial Care Program (Ameriprise Financial + Angel Foundation)

Silver: Crisis and Connectivity (Cisco Systems + USA for UNHCR)

Best Education Initiative

Gold: Building Bridges: Restoring Futures in Ukraine (Infosys + Street Child US)

Silver: Impact360 (ScanSource, Inc. + Public Education Partners + Greenville County Schools)

Best Emergency/Disaster Response Initiative

Gold: LA Wildfire Relief (PayPal/Venmo + LA Fire Department Foundation + World Central Kitchen + GoFundMe.org)

Silver: Good Leads the Way (United Airlines + Airlink)

Best Employee Engagement Initiative

Gold: SERVING WITH LOVE® Resource Rally Tour (Popeyes Foundation + Feed the Children)

Silver: Dream It Real (Coach Foundation + The Opportunity Network + Bottom Line)

Best Food Insecurity Initiative

Gold: Food As Medicine 3.0 (Elevance Health Foundation + Feeding America)

Silver: A Million Meals and Beyond (Once Upon a Farm + Save the Children)

Best Gender & LGBTQ Equality Initiative

Gold: Mattress Firm and the National Women's Shelter Network's Safe Shelter Saves Lives (Mattress Firm + National Women's Shelter Network)

Silver: Stand Up Against Street Harassment (L'Oréal Paris + Right To Be)

Best Local-Impact Initiative

Gold: Full Futures: A School Nutrition Partnership (The Campbell's Company + Alliance for a Healthier Generation)

Silver: Partner-Inspired Giving: The Starbucks Foundation's Neighborhood Grants (Starbucks Coffee Company)

Best Mental or Physical Health Initiative

Gold: Body Appreciation Badges (Flamingo (Mammoth Brands) + Girl Scouts of the USA)

Silver: Delivering Sight Worldwide (FedEx + Orbis International)

Best Point of Sale Initiative

Gold: One Curly Fry at a Time (Jack in the Box + No Kid Hungry)

Silver: Lyft Round Up & Donate for Goodwill (Lyft + Goodwill Industries International)

Best Sustainability or Conservation Initiative

Gold: Bring Coral into Focus (Samsung + Seatrees)

Silver: Take Back (Stanley 1913 + Ocean Conservancy)

Best Technology for Good Initiative

Gold: Global Cleft Care (Dentsply Sirona + Smile Train + FDI World Dental Federation)

Silver: Secure it Forward (Yubico + Defending Digital Campaigns + Civil Rights Defenders + Article 19)

Additional 2026 Honorees

Earlier this month Mattel, Inc. was named Corporation of the Year and Keep America Beautiful was named Nonprofit of the Year. For the first time, Engage for Good also recognized three individual leaders this year:

Lifetime Achievement Award: Carol Cone

Impact Leader of the Year: Karen Little, PayPal

Emerging Leader of the Year: Jorge Alvarez, Active Minds

About The Halo Awards

Now in its 24th year, The Halo Awards are the social impact sector's longest-running recognition of excellence in corporate-nonprofit partnerships. This year's Halo Awards sponsors include: TikTok, Goodstack, Upworthy, and Submittable. Past awardees include Google, Procter & Gamble, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Macy's, The Trevor Project, and more. Learn more at engageforgood.com.

Find more stories and multimedia from Engage for Good at 3blmedia.com.

Contact Info:

Spokesperson: Engage for Good

Website: https://www.3blmedia.com/profiles/engage-good

Email: [email protected]

SOURCE: Engage for Good