Awards

Here's My Chance and FastFWD announced that they have been named Best City & Urban Innovation Website in the People's Voice Award Category in the 18th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, the Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals has awarded the AFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research to Dr. Noah Drezner, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Maryland, College Park, for his outstanding work on identity-based donors, "Expanding the Donor Base in Higher Education: Engaging Non-Traditional Donors," published by Routledge.

Drezner’s book, deemed “excellent” by the AFP Research Council that awards the prize, adds new data and ideas to the relatively scarce literature on identity-based donors and how culture influences philanthropy.

In the 2013 FundRaising Success Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence, food rescue organization City Harvest took home gold in the Direct Mail (Less Than $10 Million) category for its November 2012 Holiday Card Appeal.

Congratulations to the winners of the DoGooder Video Awards, who were announced at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. The DoGooder Awards recognize the creative and effective use of video to promote social good. The four winning videos are “Right By You” from Partners for Mental Health (Best Nonprofit Video), “Nutiquette: A Dude’s Guide to Checking His Nuts” from Canadian Cancer Society (Funny For Good Award), “The Paradise That Wasn’t” from Wide Angle Youth Media (Most Inspiring Youth Media) and “Slaying Childhood Cancer” from Alex’s Lemonade Stand (ImpactX Award).

Eileen Heisman, ACFRE, whose leadership as president and CEO of National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) has transformed it into the largest, independent provider of donor-advised funds in the U.S., has been named the 2014 Outstanding Fundraising Professional by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

The award is presented to the fundraiser who has practiced his or her profession in an exemplary manner for at least 15 years while generating significant revenue for his or her organizations.

The Coast Guard Foundation took home a silver in the direct-mail category for its "When Disaster Strikes Regional Campaign" in the 2012 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence.

Announcing the 2014 FundRaising Success Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards winners.

Fundraisers, on the whole, are dedicated, passionate and tireless advocates of the causes they champion and of the greater good. The overwhelming majority are meticulously ethical and completely undeserving of the shadow that hangs darkly over their profession.

FundRaising Success takes a look back at the 2010 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards Lifetime Achievement winner, Lynn Edmonds, president of LW Robbins.

The time has come. That's right, the deadline for nominations for the 2014 FundRaising Success Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards is here. So don't delay any longer — get your nominations in by the end of today!