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

The most powerful element, though, is a 5.25-inch-by-8-inch insert on sturdy stock that has a 1-inch-wide hole in the center. On one side of the insert in reverse type on a black background it reads, “Can you put your arm through this hole?” When flipped, the other side of the insert answers: “A child dying of starvation can.”