Awards

Bridgewater, N.J., November 6, 2009 — PR News recently named R&J Public Relations as a Nonprofit PR Awards finalist in the category of Crisis Management for the agency's "Freedom of Choice for Nurses" crisis communication program. PR News' Nonprofit Awards Program, a national program dedicated to honoring the most talented communicators and teams in the nonprofit sector, is judged by an elite panel of judges, bringing out the nation's most effective and creative nonprofit communicators.

November 4, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — The NBC show 30 Rock was the inspiration for all of the winning entries in the Chronicle‘s first VolunTV Challenge.

The winners of this year's Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards were announced recently by Nancy Schwartz, president of nonprofit services provider Nancy Schwartz & Co. and author of the Getting Attention blog and e-update that organizes the annual competition.

WASHINGTON, November 2, 2009 — The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) announced today it has been named a finalist in a national advocacy awards competition for its "CPF National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Week - Changing Lives, Changing the Future" 2009 advocacy effort.

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2009 — America's Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that encourages people to leverage their social networks to recruit supporters and win cash awards for nonprofit organizations, today announced that it has received a $75,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan to help mobilize participation in the last week of the Challenge.

CLAREMONT, Calif., October 28, 2009 — The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of the 2009 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

In February, FundRaising Success will announce the winners of the fifth annual Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards. To submit a nomination, send us an e-mail telling us who you’re nominating, in which category and why.

October 26, 2009, The Chronicle of Philanthropy — Six charity founders and entrepreneurs, with an average age of nearly 68, have won the top awards in the fourth annual Purpose Prizes, given by Civic Ventures, a think tank in San Francisco that seeks to involve older people in civic engagement.

Maplewood, NJ, October 20, 2009 — Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences.

New York, NY, October 14, 2009 -- Today the Rockefeller Foundation’s President Dr. Judith Rodin announced the 18 winners of the Foundation’s 2009 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund competition – and with it a $2.7 million grant to support local New York City art and artists. Each of these 18 New York City-based organizations will receive a two-year grant of up to $250,000, underscoring the Foundation’s commitment to creative expression and innovation, and the impact and influence creativity has towards social progress.