Awards

A look at the Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association Package of the Year winner: the Fountain House Flying Cat Pads and Cards renewal campaign, with Amy Tripi of Tripi Consulting.

CNN announced the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2011, recognizing everyday people who are changing the world. The network also announced that online voting for the “CNN Hero of the Year” opened Sept. 22 and will run through Dec. 7, 2011.

Each of the Top 10 CNN Heroes will receive a $50,000 grant and one of the honorees, as voted by fans across the globe, will be named the “CNN Hero of the Year”, receiving an additional $250,000 grant to further aid their cause.

Fresh off the heels of the 2011 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence, we're ready to turn our attention to the 2012 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards!

Nominations have now opened for the sixth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the nation's highest honor for software developers working with nonprofits to help advance innovative social change.

Tides is now accepting nominations for this year's $10,000 prize through October 31. The 2012 winner will be announced in April at the Nonprofit Technology Network annual conference in San Francisco.

The Rockefeller Foundation announced the recipients of the 2011 Jane Jacobs Medal — Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, film producers and founders of the Tribeca Film Festival, Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner, and Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives.

Each recipient will donate the cash award of $50,000 to charity:

• Sadik-Khan: Safe Streets Fund
• White: Transportation Alternatives
• De Niro and Rosenthal: Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca Teaches program

Fisher House Foundation, which constructs comfort homes to provide free, temporary housing to the families of service members needing medical care, recently presented its Patriot Award to Clear Channel Radio, in recognition of its ongoing support of the Fisher House mission.

FundRaising Success magazine, the country's leading publication focused on all things fundraising, is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence. Top prize this year went to the World Vision Back to School Bounceback "Flight" package, which won Package of the Year and the Gold Award in the Direct Mail category.

DMW Direct, a direct-response advertising agency, recently garnered two awards from the Professional Insurance Marketing Association (PIMA) for its work on behalf of clients Samaritan Health Plans and Network Health.

This sustainer/upgrade effort from Russ Reid on behalf of World Vision U.S. is engaging, colorful and just plain fun … and the 2011 Package of the Year.

Announcing the 2011 Special Events Campaign of the Year, American Jewish World Service's 25th anniversary campaign.