Award-Winning Compassion
ALAN was pleased to present its 2020 Humanitarian Logistics Awards to nine highly deserving recipients 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 here.
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Gary LeBlanc – Lifetime Achievement Award
In 2006, LeBlanc founded Mercy Chefs, a disaster relief and humanitarian organization that serves professionally prepared, restaurant-quality meals to survivors and first responders in emergencies and natural disasters. Thus far, Mercy Chefs has already served 7.6 million meals, including 5 million during the Coronavirus pandemic. Whether adjusting menus on short notice when supplies run short or determining how to best utilize transportation assets to respond to multiple crises at once, Gary and Mercy Chefs are a shining example of how logistics truly can save lives.
Uber Freight – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For moving more than 1.2 million pounds of freight such as PPE, hand sanitizer, water collection barrels and pet food free of charge on behalf of ALAN and more than 20 non-profit organizations during the COVID-19 crisis.
Hub Group – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For donating 211 refrigerated trailer units to 59 unique non-profit organizations, adding up to over 9 million cubic feet, the equivalent of two average-sized refrigerated warehouses. This donation benefitted both healthcare organizations and food banks, including Feeding America, who were able to provide more fresh food for communities that were stricken with unexpected joblessness and higher dependency on food banks.
Bergen Logistics – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For receiving, storing, and staging 32 containers’ worth of tents, beds, and other critically needed medical supplies that were used to equip New York City area hospitals during the start of COVID-19 crisis.
Western Union Foundation – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For the vital funding that the Western Union Foundation has provided for relief efforts around the world. This includes a $133,000 grant that has enabled Save The Children and United Way India to serve more than 138,000 survivors of the Kerala, India, floods.
Surge Transportation – Employee Engagement Award
For the hundreds of hours that volunteers from its organization have dedicated to maintaining ALAN’s Supply Chain Intelligence Center, a free tool that enables businesses to see how COVID, extreme weather, and other hazards affect their operations so that they can do a better job of keeping their supply chains moving.
Riskpulse – Employee Engagement Award
For the hundreds of hours that volunteers from its organization have dedicated to maintaining ALAN’s Supply Chain Intelligence Center, a free tool that enables businesses to see how COVID, extreme weather, and other supply chain disruptions affect their operations so that they can do a better job of keeping their supply chains moving.
Leah Beaulac – Special Recognition Award For Innovation In Humanitarian Response
For recognizing the need for masks in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and for creating an innovative supply chain and distribution model to gather materials, supply PPE and provide cash-for-work opportunities for camp residents.
Dr. Gyöngyi Kovács – Research And Academic Contributions Award
For the disaster research she has conducted in various countries, as well as the solutions she has helped numerous humanitarian organizations implement, including: addressing the challenges of making deliveries to conflict zones, creating more scalable nutrition/health supply chains in Kenya, supporting community-based reconstruction supply chains in Kosovo and North Macedonia. Most recently she has been working with medical logistics and supply chain professionals to help secure deliveries to COVID-19 quarantine zones. Kovács is also the first professor in humanitarian logistics worldwide.