Find out which fundraising efforts the judges chose as best of show in our 2006 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“The childlike drawings are in stark contrast to the content, which often includes guns, sexual implements or, in the case of the tsunami, illustrates water everywhere,” she wrote.

The back of each postcard shows a small thumbnail picture of MSF staff working with people in volatile regions, a brief description of the work they’re doing there, and the organization’s URL. They’re accompanied by a letter that explains the organization’s mental-health programs and describes the experience of an MSF psychologist working in the field with women and children who are too traumatized to even speak.