Welcome to our Nationwide Family-Friendly Awards!
Our 2024 Family-Friendly Award Winners are here!
Use them to decide what to support with your hard earned $,
or copy them to improve your establishment.
WHAT ARE UP-STAND'S ANNUAL FAMILY-FRIENDLY AWARDS?
These awards are designed to celebrate accessibility and change norms around family-friendliness. We aim to:
• Recognize outstanding efforts to improve access for children and their caretakers
• Advance awareness about how to accommodate families
• Encourage high standards of accessibility in the service industry
• Provide families with a guide to support these providers and ask for these accommodations elsewhere
HOW ARE WINNERS SELECTED?
Awards are earned by businesses/organizations that:
• Meet the objectives listed
• Demonstrate innovation, creativity, and leadership
• Represent UP-STAND’s mission
• Make effective use of available resources
Read more about our selection process
Want to make your local establishments more family-friendly? Take action here.
2024 AWARD WINNERS
West Wing Clinic – Homer Medical Center (AK)
El Chinito Gordo (AZ)
Cayton Children’s Museum (CA)
Discovery Museum (MA)
Peabody Essex Museum (MA)
Central Park Zoo (NY)
City League Coffee Roasters (NY)
Goldfish Swim School – Astoria (NY)
Intrepid Museum (NY)
Peekamoose Restaurant (NY)
Queens Public Library – Broadway Branch (NY)
The Tiny Owl (NY)
51st Street Bakery (NY)
Craft Hall Philly (PA)
Station Taphouse (PA)
The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (SC)
Manassas Park City Library (VA)
2023 AWARD WINNERS
Central Market (Austin, TX)
Cromwell Family Chiropractic (Farmington, MI)
Manassas Park City Library (Manassas, VA)
Meadows Farms (Manassas, VA)
Meet the Meat (Astoria, Queens)
Menz Kave Barbershop (Astoria, Queens)
Takunya Nail Studio (New York, NY)
The Makers Place (Sacramento, CA)
The Tiny Owl Two-Time Winner (Astoria, Queens)
The Topsfield Fair (Topsfield, MA)
Yellow Submarine Salon (New York, NY)
View the full 2023 Family-Friendly Awards Guide
2022 AWARD WINNERS
31st Avenue Open Street in Astoria (Astoria, NY)
Discovery Museum (Acton, MA)
Earth & Me (Astoria, NY)
Hello Kids Dental (Los Angeles, CA)
Holiday Lights at Bronx Zoo (Bronx, NY)
Inova Schar Cancer Institute Pediatric Infusion Center (Fairfax, VA)
Mamaratzy Photography (D.C., MD, VA)
Petco Park (San Diego, CA)
PlayArts (Philadelphia, PA)
Solid Starts (Online)
The Children's Piazza (Peabody, MA)
The Little Gym - Dulles Landing (Dulles Landing, VA)
The Tiny Owl (Astoria, NY)
Well Kept Barbershop LLC (Astoria, NY)
View and download the full 2022 Awards Guide
2021 AWARD WINNERS
These winners were selected based on your votes for entities that provided COVID-safe experiences AND family-friendly accessibility.
Central Maine Toyota (Waterville, ME)
Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale (Bronx, NY)
Cox Farms (Centreville, VA)
Discovery Museum (Acton, MA)
Imagination Station (Toledo, OH)
Industry Gymnastics (Long Island City, NY)
Luv2Play (Fairfax, VA)
Martha Restaurant (Philadelphia, PA)
National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD)
New-York Historical Society (New York, NY)
Sunny Smiles Pediatric Dentistry (Fairfax, VA)
2020 AWARD WINNERS
These winners were selected based on your votes for entities that provided COVID-safe experiences AND family-friendly accessibility. Support them by sharing their award, ordering items online, following their live stream events, and leaving them positive feedback!
Download the 2020 Awards Guide
Meet your 2020 Winners
2019 AWARD WINNERS
D.C. Metro (Washington, D.C.)
Glory Days Grill (Centreville, VA)
Inhale Miami (Miami, FL)
Meet the Meat (Astoria, NY)
Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C.)
Nationals Park (Washington, D.C.)
Near West Theatre (Cleveland, OH)
New Victory Theater (New York, NY)
NYC Ferry (New York, NY)
ONE Community Church (Dallas, TX)
Play Arts Play Space (Philadelphia, PA)
Queens Public Library - Broadway Branch (Queens, NY)
Smithsonian National Zoo (Washington, D.C.)
The Americana at Brand (Los Angeles, CA)
2018 AWARD WINNERS
Download the full 2018 Awards Guide
Download 2018 winners by location:
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Los Angeles
Miami
New York
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Want to make your local establishments more family-friendly? Take action here.