Announcing the 2012 FS Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence Winners

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner , Dane Grams , Joe Boland , Paul Bobnak and Pamela Grow

It was very interesting to see that smaller budgets don't necessarily equal less creativity. In fact, the larger nonprofit organizations can learn just as much from the smaller organizations as the smaller organizations can from the larger ones.

The night before the judging began, FS Managing Editor and fellow judge Joe Boland and I ventured out on the town in Philadelphia. We ended up at the SugarHouse Casino. My experience there got me thinking about the task at hand for the next day in terms of entries. What did organizations do last year? Did they take risks and gamble? Or did they play it safe? My anticipation grew.

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Dane Grams Author's page

Dane Grams is the director of membership for Human Rights Campaign. He has held senior positions at Amnesty International, Greenpeace USA and Care2. Reach him at dane.grams@hrc.org.

Joe Boland Author's page

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Pamela Grow Author's page

Pamela Grow is the publisher of The Grow Report, the author of Simple Development Systems and the founder of Simple Development Systems: The Membership Program and Basics & More fundraising fundamentals e-courses. She has been helping small nonprofits raise dramatically more money for over 15 years, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by Civil Society magazine, and one of the 40 Most Effective Fundraising Consultants by The Michael Chatman Giving Show.

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