Navigate Wins Four Honors
For Navigate, effective communication is about more than sharing information. It’s about making complex housing topics understandable, connecting communities with resources, and telling stories that matter. The recognition reflects the work of Navigate’s Marketing and Communications team and the colleagues who contribute their expertise.
What Are the 2026 MarCom Awards?
The MarCom Awards are an international competition recognizing achievement in marketing and communications. The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) administers and judges the program.
Entries represent organizations and creative professionals working across print, digital media, video, and strategic communications. The competition recognizes excellence in creative development, design, production, and communication.
Navigate received four honors across three areas: video and audio production, publications, and digital design.
Platinum Recognition for Housing Compass
2026 MarCom Awards Platinum Winner: Housing Compass
Award: Platinum — Podcast, Industry Focused Series
Housing Compass: A Navigate Gives Back Podcast earned Platinum recognition in the industry-focused podcast series category. The podcast brings conversations about housing, nonprofit work, and community needs to listeners through Navigate’s storytelling platform.
Through Housing Compass, Navigate explores the people, organizations, and initiatives connected to stronger communities. The series also provides opportunities to examine challenges affecting housing stability and local nonprofit organizations.
Rather than focusing exclusively on programs or statistics, Housing Compass creates space for conversations about the work happening in communities. Those conversations help connect Navigate’s broader mission with the organizations and people working to address local needs.
The podcast also extends the reach of Navigate Gives Back, our charitable grantmaking initiative. Through that program, Navigate supports nonprofits addressing housing-related challenges and critical needs.
Housing Compass offers another way to share the work and perspectives of organizations serving communities. Its Platinum recognition acknowledges the series’ creative approach to industry-focused audio storytelling.
Explore Housing Compass: A Navigate Gives Back Podcast.
Three Gold Awards for Education, Reporting, and Design
Navigate also earned three Gold honors for projects serving different audiences and communication needs.
Together, these projects demonstrate how the organization uses video, publications, and digital platforms to share information.
2026 MarCom Awards Gold Winner: Tuesday Tips
Award: Gold — Web Video Series
Navigate’s Tuesday Tips: Practical Guidance for Housing Professionals received Gold recognition in the web video series category. Tuesday Tips is one of Navigate’s established educational resources for owners and agents of HUD-assisted multifamily housing.
Each installment focuses on practical information that housing professionals can use to better understand program requirements and operational issues. Topics frequently address HUD guidance, documentation, compliance considerations, and property management practices.
The goal is straightforward: make important information easier to understand and apply. For owners and agents managing Project-Based Rental Assistance properties, regulatory information can be complex. Changes in guidance may affect daily operations, documentation practices, and preparation for compliance reviews.
Tuesday Tips hosts Pam Kazlauskas and Mary Celone help break those topics into focused, approachable video segments. Their subject matter expertise helps ensure the content remains practical, relevant, and grounded in the realities of affordable housing operations. Additionally, the video format allows viewers to revisit topics and share information with their teams.
This Gold recognition highlights the value of combining industry knowledge with accessible educational content.
Visit Navigate’s YouTube channel to explore its video resources.
Gold Winner: Growth Beyond the Blueprint
Award: Gold — Annual Report, Nonprofit
Navigate’s Growth: Beyond the Blueprint, the organization’s 2025 Annual Report, earned Gold recognition in the nonprofit annual report category. An annual report serves an important purpose for any nonprofit organization. It provides an opportunity to document progress, communicate priorities, and help audiences understand the organization’s work.
However, communicating the activities of a multifaceted housing organization presents challenges. Navigate’s work spans affordable housing, asset management, federal contracting, community development, and nonprofit grantmaking.
Each area serves different audiences and contributes to the organization’s broader mission. The 2025 Annual Report brings those activities together through a unified publication. Its theme, Growth: Beyond the Blueprint, reflects an approach to communicating the organization’s work beyond individual programs.
The report presents Navigate’s activities within the broader context of housing and community development. It also provides an opportunity to recognize the partnerships and organizational efforts that support this work.
The Gold recognition acknowledges the publication’s creative execution in nonprofit reporting.
View Growth: Beyond the Blueprint — Navigate’s 2025 Annual Report.
Navigate’s LinkedIn presence received Gold recognition for cohesive visual identity. Social media plays an important role in how we communicate with housing professionals. The platform also helps connect municipalities, nonprofits, and potential partners.
Consistent graphics, typography, imagery, and design elements help establish a professional presentation across different topics. Visual consistency also makes content easier to recognize as audiences scroll through their feeds.
Navigate’s LinkedIn design approach brings that consistency to a wide range of communications. Content may focus on HUD updates, housing operations, community partnerships, organizational news, or other industry topics. Although the subject matter changes, a cohesive visual identity helps connect the information to Navigate.
The Gold recognition acknowledges the creative design approach used across the organization’s LinkedIn presence.
Communicating Navigate’s Mission Through Meaningful Work
These four awards recognize distinct projects, but they share a common purpose. Each helps Navigate communicate information, experiences, and organizational work to the audiences it serves.
Housing Compass creates opportunities for conversations about nonprofits and community needs.
Tuesday Tips supports housing professionals with focused, practical education.
The annual report documents organizational activity and connects it to Navigate’s mission.
Meanwhile, LinkedIn provides a consistent visual platform for reaching professional audiences.
Together, these efforts reflect Navigate’s commitment to clear, accessible, and useful communication. They also demonstrate the collaboration required to communicate effectively across a complex industry.
Navigate’s Marketing and Communications team brings these projects to life through writing, video production, design, and storytelling. Just as importantly, colleagues across the organization contribute the experience and knowledge that give the content substance.
The 2026 MarCom Awards offer an opportunity to recognize that collective effort.
As Navigate continues its work in affordable housing and community development, communication remains an essential part of connecting people with information.
Explore more of Navigate’s work through our website, Housing Compass podcast, and LinkedIn page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many 2026 MarCom Awards did Navigate win?
Navigate Affordable Housing Partners received four awards: one Platinum and three Gold.
Which Navigate project received the Platinum MarCom Award?
Housing Compass: A Navigate Gives Back Podcast received Platinum recognition in the industry-focused podcast series category.
Which projects received Gold MarCom Awards?
Navigate’s Tuesday Tips video series, 2025 Annual Report, and LinkedIn visual identity each received Gold recognition.
What are the MarCom Awards?
The MarCom Awards are an international competition recognizing creative achievement in marketing and communications. The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals administers the competition.
Where can I find Navigate’s award-winning work?
Audiences can explore Housing Compass, Navigate’s Tuesday Tips videos, the 2025 Annual Report, and Navigate’s LinkedIn page through the links above.
