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

A simple package mailed in a 5.25-inch-by-7.25-inch envelope, it includes just a reply device, a thank-you card and an interactive bounceback for donations made in honor of others.

What stands out most is the “child” presence throughout, with children’s drawings depicting City Harvest’s work. The outer envelope features an illustration of the City Harvest logo and, next to it, stick-figure people eating from a bowl filled with fruit and vegetables. The outside of the thank-you card and bounceback show a crayon drawing of a City Harvest truck driving through a city.