Honors

Thrivent Magazine Wins Gold

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ official quarterly member publication, Thrivent, won a prestigious 2007 Gold Quill Award of Merit in the publications category, presented by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

IABC is a premier organization with more than 13,000 business communications professionals in more than 60 countries. The Gold Quill Awards program has been the hallmark of excellence in business communication for more than 35 years. The winners represent the best in organizational communication and their work plans serve as best practices for professional communicators across communication disciplines. This year’s competition was sponsored by Towers Perrin and received more than 1,170 entries from 21 countries. Of these, 102 were selected to receive awards: 46 Awards of Excellence, 53 Awards of Merit and 3 student awards.

The Gold Quill entries went through two rigorous rounds of judging by a team of top senior communicators from around the world. The final selection was made in March by the Gold Quill Blue Ribbon Panel of judges at the IABC world headquarters in San Francisco. The winners were honored at the Gold Quill Awards gala on June 25 at IABC’s International Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. A select number of winning entries were on display at the conference.

Over the last year, Thrivent magazine has earned awards from the IABC Silver Quill regional awards competition, the Twin Cities chapter of Association for Women in Communications, the Communicator Awards Print Media Competition and the Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) competition.

Thrivent magazine reaches nearly 3 million Thrivent Financial members in all 50 states and in many other countries around the world. Thrivent Financial teams up with MSP Communications, a custom publisher based in Minneapolis, to produce Thrivent magazine. MSP publishes magazines, newsletters, Web sites and e-content.