Awards

Right up there among my top reasons for enjoying the month of February is the Fundraising Professionals of the Year issue. It pains me not to be able to honor every person who was nominated. And for every winner, there are hundreds of others who could just as easily qualify. I hope you enjoy reading about our winners as much as we did. I also hope you'll take a moment to pat yourself on the back and maybe do the same for some of your colleagues. The work you all do can be gruelling. But it's so important. From the FS staff ... thank you.

This year, the Piedmont Triad chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation expects to raise $2.5 million to support research on the disease.

That includes $1 million the group aims to raise at its Annual Hope Gala, to be held Feb. 26, a fundraising total that would be the highest ever for the event since it began in 2001.

Spearheading the fundraising effort is Paul Fulton, a former president of Sara Lee Corp. who also will receive the chapter's Beverly Berry Living and Giving Award at the event.

See3 and YouTube are back for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards! Video submissions are open and close March 2. The 16 finalists will be selected March 6, and public voting on the DoGooder YouTube channel begins March 7 and lasts until March 11. The winners will be announced March 19 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Here are 10 details to keep in mind before you enter:

1. You have to submit a video made in 2010

2. The contest has no specific category or missions.  Ah open minds and flexibility!

Announcing the 2011 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Fundraising Stars.

Announcing the 2011 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Rising Stars.

Announcing the 2011 Fundraising Professional of the Year: Andrew J. Bales.

Right up there among my top reasons for enjoying February is the Fundraising Professionals of the Year issue. Every year, I am so deeply touched to read about nominees' selfless dedication, their vision, their passion, their perseverance and their steadfast devotion to making the world a better, more livable place

Announcing the 2011 Fundraising Professional of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dave McKee.

Announcing the 2011 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards winners for Fundraiser of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Fundraising Stars and Rising Stars.

KaBOOM!, a national non-profit dedicated to saving play for America's children, has proven that money isn’t everything when you have friends.  Over the past two weeks, KaBOOM!’s dedicated supporters voted online once a day to help the nonprofit win the Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding contest’s first place prize.

We would also like to congratulate the other nine nonprofits for advancing to the final round of the contest.  Each will receive a second or third place prize to help them continue their brand development journey.