Dunn Marketing Wins Three 2025 Communicator Awards
We are proud to share that Dunn Marketing has been honored with three 2025 Communicator Awards by The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, placing our agency among a vibrant community of award-winning creators, marketers, and storytellers spanning over three decades. The Communicator Awards recognize excellence, effectiveness, and innovation across all areas of communication. This season, the 31st Annual Communicator Awards celebrated the various human connections forged through communication with the theme, “Communication is Connection.”
When Empathy Meets Excellence
This year, our work was recognized across three categories:
Award of Excellence: Nonprofit Film & Video Storytelling, for The Trudeau Center
“Transforming Lives at Trudeau for 60 Years,” our 60th anniversary video for The J. Arthur Memorial Trudeau Center, celebrated 60 years of Trudeau’s transformative work empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The video, created with the help of J. Russo Productions, tells the powerful story of six decades of impact in the intellectual and developmental disabilities community in Rhode Island.
Trudeau President and CEO Dr. Al J. Vario shared, “The work we did with Dunn Marketing during our sixtieth anniversary year was truly a labor of love. The team did a beautiful job of capturing who we are as an organization and why our mission is so important.”
Award of Distinction: Out-of-Home & Environmental Campaign, for The Trudeau Center
Our “We Create Bright Futures” billboard campaign for the Trudeau Center received an Award of Distinction—proof that empathy-driven messaging works across all mediums. The billboard campaign strategically highlighted Trudeau’s services and programs at key Rhode Island locations while supporting the agency’s staff recruitment and fundraising initiatives.
Award of Distinction: Financial Services Marketing Campaign Effectiveness, for WHZ Strategic Wealth Advisors
Our “Absolute Confidence. Unwavering Partnership. For Life.” campaign for WHZ Strategic Wealth Advisors received an Award of Distinction, competing alongside industry giants including American Express, Bank of America, and AllianceBernstein.
Developed alongside creative partner Artemis Design, this omnichannel marketing campaign demonstrates how our six-step Empathy-Driven Brand Building™ process can transform financial services marketing.
“Congratulations to our amazing partners at the Dunn team! Our work together continues to reinforce our person-centric philosophy and helps us connect with more people who can benefit from having a truly strategic financial partner,” said WHZ Senior Partner & Chief Strategist James Zahansky.
Why These Awards Matter
This recognition underscores the excellence in outcomes that we work to achieve for our clients and the universal power of empathy-driven marketing across industries. Whether we’re working in financial services, the nonprofit sector, or any of the other life services industries that we serve, our commitment remains the same: understanding the human beings we’re trying to reach and creating authentic connections that drive real results.
“We’re absolutely thrilled to receive this recognition for our work with two organizations that exemplify our core belief that empathy drives meaningful connections,” said Laura Dunn, our CEO & Chief Brand Strategist. “Both WHZ and Trudeau embody this philosophy in everything they do, which makes our partnerships with them so rewarding and effective.”
“Receiving three Communicator Awards in one year really speaks to the power of our Empathy-Driven Brand Building™ approach across different industries and mediums,” noted Marci Seney, Vice President of Client Services. “Our focus remains the same: understanding the human beings we’re trying to reach and creating authentic connections.”
Thank You to Our Partners
We extend heartfelt gratitude to our incredible client partners at WHZ Strategic Wealth Advisors and the Trudeau Center. Your trust in our process and commitment to serving your communities with empathy make this work deeply fulfilling.
We also thank our creative collaborators—Artemis for their partnership on the WHZ campaign, and J. Russo Productions for their exceptional work on the Trudeau anniversary video.
Ready to see how empathy-driven marketing can transform your organization’s impact? We’d love to chat about how our Empathy-Driven Brand Building™ approach can help you connect, inspire, and convert. Let’s start the conversation >
