Here are the efforts our judges chose as the best of 2006 in the FS 2007 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence.

By Abny Santicola and Margaret Battistelli

Numbers
Number of Recipients: 664,148
Total Income Generated: $4,556,105
Average Gift: $123.36
Total Out-of-Pocket Costs: $293,000
Response Rate: 5.56 percent
Cost to Raise a Dollar: $0.064

Stunning. That’s the only way to describe this package. It’s not surprising that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières would create such a stand-out. Its submissions for this year’s — and previous years’ — awards have demonstrated the organization’s and its partner agency’s prowess at developing packages with just the right combination of creative, offer and messaging.