Awards

The 2013 FundRaising Success Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence are right around the corner. With that, here's a look back at our 2007 awards, in which two appeals tied for Package of the Year.

The deadline for getting in your entries for FundRaising Success’ eighth annual Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence is Aug. 26 — please note, that’s the delivery cutoff, not postmark. Winners will be announced in the October issue of FundRaising Success.

With the 2013 FundRaising Success Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence submission period in full swing, take a look back at the 2008 Package of the Year winner, Habitat for Humanity International's “Habitat Challenge” special development appeal, submitted by Craver, Mathews, Smith & Co.

Some packages just take off, making response rates soar and flying higher than even their creators could imagine. In most cases, those sky-high accolades are just metaphorical.

As we gear up for this year's Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence competition, take  a look back at last year's winner, Leader Dogs for the Blind Graduation Poster campaign, submitted by Huntsinger & Jeffer.

The Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation (DMANF) is very pleased to announce that New York City's own City Harvest is the 2013 recipient of its prestigious Nonprofit Organization of the Year Award. 

The Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association (DMFA) announced the winners of its Package of the Year Awards, showcasing nonprofits' best direct-mail and e-mail fundraising efforts.

We announced the winners of our 2013 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards in February. But now take a look back at some past winners in our February 2009 cover story, "Grace and Grit."

While at the Nonprofit Technology Conference last week in Minneapolis, we were on hand to see the winners of the 2013 DoGooder Video Awards announced. Four finalists were chosen for each category, and then the winners were selected by the public. The winner of the Best of Nonprofit Video Award was the Rainforest Alliance’s “Follow the Frog.” Why it works? It's entertaining, relatable and has an easy-to-follow call to action.

InsideClimate News — a 5-year-old nonprofit news site dedicated to covering the environment — was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its series on a 2010 pipeline oil spill in Michigan's Kalamazoo River. Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, acknowledged that InsideClimate News was not as well-known as past online site winners such as Huffington Post and ProPublica. But he said the site exemplified a larger trend among the winners — a commitment to watchdog journalism.