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

Another tie!

Then I enlisted Target Marketing Group President Peggy Hatch and another innocent bystander. They holed themselves up in Peggy’s office and emerged with … another tie.

That’s when it became clear that we just were meant to have a dual award for Package of the Year.

Actually, it’s kind of cool since one of our winners comes from a huge organization with the power of multiple agencies behind it, and the other is from a much smaller group. It’s a perfect example of the marvelous diversity to be found in the fundraising sector.