Award-Winning Compassion
ALAN was pleased to present its seven 2026 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 2027.
Click Here To View The Previous Years’ Humanitarian Logistics Award Winners
Lynden Air Cargo – Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For donating 61,563 pounds of air cargo capacity to support Bethel Search and Rescue’s relief efforts in Western Alaska following last October’s Typhoon Halong – and for working closely with organizations such as GCI, the Alaska Foundation of Natives, Team Rubicon, and other local Alaska air cargo carriers to assist with donation collection, staging and distribution for typhoon survivors.
Niagara Cares – Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For donating and rapidly distributing more than 220,000 gallons of clean drinking water to the survivors of the 2025 floods in Central Texas’s Kerrville region – and for the financial donation it made to support long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts.
UPS - Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For the ongoing work of its UPS Foundation. In 2025, UPS and The UPS Foundation delivered hope when it mattered most by contributing more than $16 million in grants and logistics support. This support helped humanitarian organizations respond to 80 disasters and crises around the globe, providing relief to more than 1.7 million survivors.
Vector Global Logistics - Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Award
For its Leveraging Logistics initiatives. In addition to providing in-kind supply shipments in response to three international crises (Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, the invasion of Ukraine, and the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela), these initiatives have used community calls, resource connections and the company’s Logistics With Purpose® podcast to raise awareness and mobilize support for ongoing needs in those countries, as well as recovery efforts following the 2024 flooding in Valencia, Spain.
Dr. Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez - Research and Academic Contributions Award
For his research on humanitarian field vehicle fleet management, which has provided a practical framework for improving 4X4 vehicle supply chain management and the way that relief organizations make last-mile deliveries. He was also honored for establishing Mendoza College’s HOPE Lab and the Humanitarian Operations Research Workshop, two entities that support and advance the work of other humanitarian operations researchers.
Dr. F. Sibel Salman- Research and Academic Contributions Award
For the 25 years of work she has done to build resilient, life-saving humanitarian supply chains via mathematical optimizations and operations research. She was also lauded for applying the principles of compassionate engineering to direct service. Her work has included coordinating the Disaster Logistics Scientific Committee for Turkey’s Disaster Management Authority, designing mobile healthcare routes for Syrian refugees in Turkey, and supporting the EU’s BLOODSURE project.
Paul Delp - Lifetime Achievement Award
For his body of philanthropic work both personally and as president of Lansdale Warehouse. This work included providing Mitzvah Circle with the cost-free loan of a forklift for a year (a contribution that made it possible for the nonprofit to serve more than 500,000 people during 2025) and making a Lansdale warehouse available as a donation collection center for survivors of the September 11 attacks. It also included Paul’s service as a board member for the Red Cross Board of Montgomery County.