2014 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards Winners

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

It's rare that a startup nonprofit can raise more than $400,000 in capital campaign funds in one year. It's even more rare when that fundraising is for an idea and that startup nonprofit barely exists. That's what happened with EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute, which opened its doors for business Nov. 1, 2013, after a capital campaign that ran just nine months.