Award-Winning Compassion
ALAN was pleased to present its six 2025 Humanitarian Logistics Awards to highly deserving individuals and organizations at CSCMP EDGE.
Created in 2017, these awards honor individuals and organizations that have demonstrated an ongoing and sustained commitment to helping others in their time of greatest need – and who serve as beacons of hope before, during and after disasters strike.
Please join us in congratulating each of this year’s winners. And if you know of a particularly deserving recipient for next year’s awards, please consider nominating them when nominations open in spring 2026.
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Continental Logistics – Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For providing $11,000 worth of the pro bono transportation that was needed to deliver donated goods to numerous food banks, community centers and other humanitarian organizations that served more than 173,000 individuals after Hurricane Helene, the Los Angeles wildfires and other disasters.
Fleet Advantage - Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For the charitable work of its employees through its Kids Around The Corner Foundation, which served 51 non-profit organizations and helped with relief efforts after disasters such as Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton during 2024. Throughout the year, the company hosted eight volunteer events, making it possible for its personnel to directly help the communities where they live and work. These volunteers’ efforts included assembling and distributing more than 2,000 meals and hygiene kits; assisting with hurricane relief efforts; providing more than 100 Easter baskets; and collecting and assembling 200 backpacks with necessary school supplies for people in need.
Niagara Cares – Employee Engagement Award
For mobilizing hundreds of its employees to support relief efforts in California’s Palisades and Altadena areas after the Los Angeles wildfires. These employees’ volunteer efforts included assembling more than 500 care packages for first responders; creating 600 hygiene and care kits for displaced residents; and painting murals, building learning gardens, and planting trees to restore a sense of hope and re-beautify areas that were damaged or destroyed by the fires.
Partners Warehouse, A Flex Logistics Company - Employee Engagement Award
For providing ALAN with the donated long-term warehousing space and logistics support it needed to accept the largest material equipment donation in its history – 80 pallet jacks. These jacks, which ALAN has been using to assist nonprofits with their Hurricane Helene, Arkansas Tornado and other relief efforts, have already enabled these humanitarian organizations to serve more than 700,000 individuals in need.
Dr. Burcu Balçik - Research and Academic Contributions Award
For her pioneering work in data-driven decision-making during the preparedness, response and recovery phases of humanitarian operations. Her research in areas such as stock pre-positioning, last-mile aid planning, supplier framework agreements and needs assessment planning as well as her collaboration with researchers from around the world have led to many tangible gains in disaster preparedness, coordination and fairness.
ALAN's Founders - Lifetime Achievement Award
For creating ALAN in 2005 and providing ALAN with ongoing support ever since. Over the past two decades, ALAN has served more than 300 non-profit organizations across more than 100 disasters, delivering free logistics services, equipment and expertise that have been valued at missions of dollars and benefitting the lives of approximately 10 million people.