Awards

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.

A generous couple in Saskatchewan; an outstanding family foundation supporting causes around the world; a volunteer legend in Vancouver; a fundraising pioneer in Wisconsin; a dynamic brother-sister team in Georgia; an inspiring newspaper project in Calgary; and a heroic young woman in Minnesota are all recipients of the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2013 Awards for Philanthropy.

As I pored over the nominations in this year’s Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards, I was reminded once again of how very blessed and grateful I am to be even a small part of what you do. Thank you.

Announcing the 2013 Fundraising Professional of the Year: Amanda Lipsey, development director of the Adventure Cycling Association.