Awards

The deadline for the 2013 FundRaising Success Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards is Monday, Jan. 7. Get your nominations in now!

Here are some of the FundRaising Success Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards winners from the past two years from faith-based organizations.

They're your colleagues, your co-workers, your employees, your bosses, your friends. They're fundraising's best thinkers, doing-est doers and brightest stars. And in 2013 FundRaising Success will once again honor the Fundraising Professionals of the Year.

SXSW Interactive announces the honorees for the 2013 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award, which honors those who use technology to take on tough problems in the community: Madhura Bhat, co-founder of Health for America; Elizabeth Davidson, co-founder of ScriptEd; Arlene Ducao, coordinator of OpenIR; Rey Faustino,  founder of One Degree; Gene Gurkoff, founder of Charity Miles; Elena Lagoudi, a museum digital engagement worker; Simeon Oriko, founder of the Kuyu Project; Amanda Quraishi, Web manager of Mobile Loaves & Fishes; Ben Sawyer, co-founder of the Serious Games Initiative; and Rich Schwerdtfeger, CTO of accessibility at IBM Software.

As the Christmas spirit sweeps over me, I'm happy to announce that the submission period for our annual Fundraiser of the Year Awards is now open.

This week, the winners of the 2012 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards were announced by Nancy Schwartz, president of Nancy Schwartz & Co. and author of the Getting Attention blog, as well as a member of the FundRaising Success Editorial Advisory Board.

Take a quick peek at the 2012 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award Winners.

Creative philanthropic approaches to schooling in Los Angeles and the arts in Chicago won recognition in the 2012 Innovator of the Year Awards handed out by The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Magazine. Eric Eisner, a former movie and music mogul who founded the Young Eisner Scholars program to help children from some of Los Angeles’ poorest neighborhoods get to college, was named the magazine’s Innovator of the Year in education.

A look at the Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association 2012 Renewal Package of the Year winner: amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research December 2011 Appeal.

Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle, co-chairs of the Caring Institute, announced the 2012 Caring Award winners. These six amazing adults and six extraordinary youths are being acknowledged for their efforts to give back to society. They will be commemorated at the Caring Awards Ceremony at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 24., where they will be inducted into the Caring Hall of Fame.