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

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Three cheers for a nonprofit mailing that makes you want to throw confetti in the air and party! Our judges unanimously were enamored with this happy effort from Food for the Hungry.

Feeding hungry children in developing areas of the world is serious business, but because this unique mailing markets, in part, to children themselves, the look and feel had to be upbeat, and full of hope and joy.