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

Unfolded, the map is 20 inches by 32.25 inches, printed on strong paper and exquisitely branded. One side of the poster features a map of the world with red boxes denoting locations where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières operates. The other side highlights the work the organization is doing in a few specific areas — Colombia, Sudan, Angola, Chechnya and South Asia. For each location there’s a photograph showing MSF workers caring for the affected local population and a two-paragraph description of the problems that region is facing and what the organization is doing to help. This side of the poster also discusses MSF’s financial accountability, depicting it with a pie chart; and the poster as a whole shows the organization’s Web URL three times.