Find out which fundraising efforts the judges chose as best of show in our 2006 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Our judges — Jill Murphy, manager of member services at the DMA Nonprofit Federation; Steve Froehlich, director of development analytics at the ASPCA; Paul Bobnak, director of North American Publishing Co.’s Who’s Mailing What! Archive; and FS Senior Editor Abny Santicola — spent a full day poring over the entries.