Awardco tools used
 
Offline Recognition
 
Service Awards
 
Birthdays & Holidays
 
Budget Management
 
Reporting & Analytics

Takeaways

  • Necco needed a way to boost morale among employees working in emotionally demanding fields like foster care, adoption, and behavioral health.
  • With Awardco, they launched a wide range of meaningful recognition programs that support both professional contributions and personal milestones.
  • Employee morale improved, burnout decreased, and leaders at all levels became active champions of recognition.

Company Overview

About Necco

Necco has been in the business of building families since 1996. They are passionate about equipping children and families with the knowledge, resources, and tools they need to live fulfilling, purposeful lives.

The Challenge

Supporting passionate employees in demanding roles

Necco employees are deeply committed to helping children and families — but working in foster care, adoption, behavioral health, and residential living can be emotionally taxing. Employee burnout and turnover were real risks.

Necco needed a recognition strategy that would uplift, support, and sustain their workforce in meaningful ways.

The Solutions

Making difficult work more rewarding

Awardco gave Necco the platform they needed to celebrate their employees' vital contributions consistently and personally. They were able to launch:

  • Service awards to honor ongoing commitment
  • Birthday celebrations to make every employee feel special
  • End-of-year awards with personalized gratitude notes
  • Top performer rewards to reinforce high-impact behaviors
  • Life event recognitions to celebrate personal milestones
  • Employee referral rewards to grow their community with trusted connections

By recognizing both personal and professional achievements, Necco built a culture where employees feel seen, valued, and supported — even in the most challenging roles.

Building a culture across all levels

Recognition at Necco isn't limited to HR's embedded across the entire organization.

Thanks to Awardco's easy budgeting, automated reporting, and seamless administration, managers and leaders at every level have embraced recognition as part of their leadership toolkit:

  • Managers reward effort consistently, improving team morale.
  • Executives model recognition, reinforcing its importance company-wide.
  • Employees recognize peers, strengthening community bonds.

By empowering everyone to participate, Necco created a top-to-bottom culture of appreciation that lightens emotional burdens and energizes employees to keep making a difference.

The Results

Hard work gets noticed every time

In a challenging industry where passion meets pressure, Necco flipped the script — turning appreciation into a powerful tool for employee happiness, loyalty, and resilience.