Awards
February 16, 2012
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 15 organizations in six countries as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The awards continue the Foundation’s history of building and supporting institutions that address some of the world’s most pressing problems in creative ways.
The recipients of the 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions are awarded $350,000 to $2.5 million, depending on the annual budget of each organization.
February 15, 2012
Five Californians received the 2012 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards for applying proven, innovative approaches to some of the state’s most difficult problems. Now in its seventh year, the Awards aim to uncover and spotlight breakthrough solutions that have the potential to better the lives of more Californians if policymakers and others expand and replicate these approaches.
The recipients, Patricia Dennehy, GLIDE Health Services; Christa Gannon, Fresh Lifelines for Youth; Carolyn Laub, Gay-Straight Alliance Network; Craig McNamara, Center for Land-Based Learning; and Olis Simmons, Youth UpRising, each receive $125,000 in organizational support.
February 9, 2012
FundRaising Success magazine, the fundraiser's complete source for multichannel strategy and integration techniques, announced the winners in its 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year awards competition.
February 7, 2012
YouTube and See3 Communications are now accepting submissions for the 2012 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards, an annual event to showcase and reward some of the best video work from nonprofits. The awards will honor nonprofits in four categories: Best Small Organization, Best Medium Organization, Best Large Organization and Best Storytelling Video. The winner of each category will be awarded several prizes, such as monetary compensation as well as a featured spot on YouTube’s homepage on April 5.
February 1, 2012
Announcing the winners of FundRaising Success' 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards.
February 1, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Fundraising Professional of the Year award winner: Sue Woodward, vice president of development of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
February 1, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Fundraising Stars award winners: Debbie Apperson, Ethan Bush, Jennifer Cohen, Angie Hatcher Sledge and Adrienne Swain Smith.
February 1, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Lifetime Achievement award winner: Geoff Peters, president and CEO of CDR Fundraising Group.
February 1, 2012
Announcing the 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Rising Stars award winners: Kate Amore, Daniel Blakemore, Brittany Lavalleur, Dana Raftas and Jenny Zak.
January 30, 2012
Gone are the days when a chief financial officer at a nonprofit was regarded as a mere bookkeeper. That was the message conveyed recently at the Nonprofit CFO of the Year awards luncheon in Washington, D.C., last week.
Nearly 300 leaders shined the spotlight on three nonprofit CFOs: Stanley Berman of Global Impact was named CFO of the Year, Jason Daisey of Associated Builders and Contractors won the Nonprofit CFO Rising Star award and Kimberly McKinnish of the National Beer Wholesalers Association won CFO Transformational Leader.
