Recognition

Firm Wide Awards

2007

PepperPot Awards - Public Relations Society of America, Philadelphia Chapter

  • First place - Editorial: “Where Victims’ Go Wrong” Washington Post, Cozen O’Connor
  • Meritorious Award - ProBono: 25th Anniversary “Pay it Forward”,” Toplin & Associates, Inc.
  • Meritorious Award - Community Relations: “Stop the Violence Rally,”  Keystone Hospice
  • Meritoriuos Award - Special Public Relation Programs: "Super Lawyers Give Back," Anapol Schwartz

2006

Ad-Q Award for Outstanding Advertising

  • Outstanding Readership Response – Cozen O’Connor

PepperPot Awards – Public Relations Society of America, Philadelphia Chapter

  • First place – Institutional Programs, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Radio P.S.A., Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Special Public Relations Program: Clergy Outreach, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Web Site Communications, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • Second place – Pro Bono Program, Dignity Housing 
  • Meritorious Award – Community Relations, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness

2005

Pepper Pot Awards – Public Relations Society of America, Philadelphia Chapter

  • Best of Show, Overall Campaign, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Institutional Programs, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Special Public Relations Programs, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
  • First place – Television P.S.A., Council for the Advancement of Public Schools
  • First place – Issues Management Campaign, Council for the Advancement of Public Schools
  • First place – Single Piece Opinion-Editorial Column, Council for the Advancement of Public Schools
  • Second place – Nursing Annual Report, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
  • Meritorious Award – Special Events Programs, Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness

 
Individual Awards

Ellen Toplin

STAR award, Forum of Executive Women, 2007

Named one of Philadelphia’s 101 “Top Connectors” by Leadership Philadelphia, 2006

Honored by Montgomery County Women’s Center as one of the four inspiring leaders of the year, 2006

One of the state’s Best 50 Women in Business, 2005; served as program judge, 2006

Recipient of Athena Award, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce , 2005

DeAnn White Award for Community Service, Public Relations Society of America, Philadelphia Chapter, 2002

Hale’s Legacy award for outstanding achievement in the field of public relations, Philadelphia Chapter of Women in Communications, 1997