NPCC, The New York Times Company Community Affairs Department and Philanthropy New York are delighted to announce the fourth annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The Awards recognize the enormously important roles played by thousands of New York's nonprofit organizations in improving our lives and communities. These Awards help nonprofit leaders improve the management of their organizations and inform all New Yorkers about management excellence in nonprofit organizations.
Winning organizations will be recognized for excellent achievement in management at a special Awards Presentation in Summer, 2010, at The New York Times. Winners will receive cash awards, special mention in The New York Times, and a scholarship towards tuition at Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education at Columbia Business School.
All 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the New York City area are invited to apply. This is your opportunity to tell all New Yorkers - and the world - what your organization accomplishes and how you manage to make it possible. What makes your organization unique? How do you embody the best of nonprofit management practice?
The application deadline for the 2010 Awards was November 20, 2009, however guidelines remain online for those who wish to learn more at http://nytawards.fcny.org.
Application Process
The strongest applications are from those organizations where discussion and reflection have been invested by staff, board, volunteers and other stakeholders prior to completing their applications. The three-stage application process includes two stages of written applications and a site visit. Applicant organizations are required to address the seven key areas of nonprofit management summarized below. The full document is at www.npccny.org/info/7AreasofNonprofitExcellence(2010).pdf.
Collaborators
The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, The New York Times Community Affairs Department, and Philanthropy New York collaborate in presenting the Awards. Additional support in the past year was provided by Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education at Columbia Business School, the Surdna Foundation, McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, the Fund for the City of New York, The New York Community Trust, the Altman Foundation, The Clark Foundation, The Venable Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, Wachovia Bank and the Hagedorn Foundation.
Technology assessment and consultation provided by Google.
2010 Selection Committee (in formation)
Sr. Kwayera Archer-Cunningham, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ifetayo Cultural Arts; Diane Arneth, Executive Director, Community Health Action of Staten Island; Gary Bagley, Executive Director, New York Cares; Victoria Bailey, Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund; John Best, Director of Human Resources, Good Shepherd Services; Sally Blinken, Venable LLP; Richard Berlin, Executive Director, Harlem RBI; Ernest Duncan, Chief Financial Officer, Vera Institute of Justice; Jessica Chao, Senior Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors;
Anne Coates, Vice President, Alliance for the Arts;
Don Crocker, Executive Director/CEO, Support Center for Nonprofit Management; Michael Davidson, Chair, Governance Matters; Dennis Derryck, Professor, New School University; Yancy Rubén Garrido, Program Officer, Clark Foundation; Kristin Giantris, Vice President NE Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund; Richard Hobish, Probono Partnership; Amy Houston, Director, Management Assistance, Robin Hood Foundation; Paul J. Howard, Director of Development for Center for Urban Community Services; Geoffrey Knox, President and Founder, Geoffrey Knox & Associates; Sandra Lamb, President and CEO, Lamb Advisors; Valyrie Laedlein, Deputy Director, Community Resource Exchange; Hilda Polanco, Managing Director, Fiscal Management Associates LLC; Meryl Schwartz, Portfolio Manager, Blue Ridge Foundation New York; Anne Sherman, Consultant, TCC Group; Hildy Simmons, Consultant, Philanthropic Advisory Services; Patricia Swann, Senior Program Officer, New York Community Trust; Ann Marie Thigpen, Director, Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Adelphi University.
2009 Winners
New York Cares – Winner for Overall Management Excellence
Groundwork, Inc. – Winner for Excellent Management
Vera Institute of Justice – Winner for Excellent Management
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project – Winner for Excellent Communications
A special recognition was given to two finalists, Citizens Advice Bureau and Legal Information for Families Today.
As winner of the Overall Management Excellence award, New York Cares received a $25,000 cash award. The other three winners received cash awards of $5,000 each. The six finalists received a total of $35,000 in scholarships to Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education at Columbia Business School.
Click here to read the Times press release.
2008 Winners
Community Health Action of Staten Island — Winner for Overall Management Excellence
Harlem RBI — Winner for Excellent Communications
Ifetayo Cultural Arts — Winner for Excellent Culturally-Based Management Strategies
The Institute for Family Health — Winner for Excellent Use of Technology and Focus on Mission
To view the 2008 Awards video produced by Go Show Entertainment, visit: www.goseaentertainment.com/index.php?sub=microdocs#.
Click here to read the Times press release.
2007 Winners
Good Shepherd Services – Winner for Overall Management Excellence
Center for Urban Community Services – Winner for Excellence in Sustained Impact
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality - Winner for Excellence in Meeting Emerging Issues
WITNESS – Winner for Excellence in Communications