Time Is Running Out! Gold Awards Entries Due in Office Sept. 9!

The final, official cutoff time for getting your entries in for the eight annual Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence is nearly upon us. We've already extended the deadline as far as we possibly can … so overnight those entries this weekend to showcase and get recognized for all those great campaigns your organization and/or clients executed this past year. Anything we receive after Monday, Sept. 9, will not be eligible, as we begin the judging process Monday afternoon.

So hurry and get those entries in now! Here's a link to the entry form.

And feel free to take a look at last year's winners here.

The categories have been slightly tweaked for 2013 to better reflect the state of fundraising this year, which you can see below:

Direct Mail
Organization's Annual Operating Budget $10 million or Over
Organization's Annual Operating Budget Under $10 million

Multichannel
Organization's Annual Operating Budget $10 million or Over
Organization's Annual Operating Budget Under $10 million

E-mail
Organization's Annual Operating Budget $10 million or Over
Organization's Annual Operating Budget Under $10 million

Special Events
Organization's Annual Operating Budget $10 million or Over
Organization's Annual Operating Budget Under $10 million

Telemarketing
Organization's Annual Operating Budget $10 million or Over
Organization's Annual Operating Budget Under $10 million

Social-Media Mastery
Does your organization have a stellar social-media strategy that paves the way for the deep donor engagement that eventually fuels fundraising? Have you pulled off a masterful campaign on social media?

Website
What makes your organization’s website a fundraising powerhouse?

On the Edge
Any campaign that pushes the envelope (and/or the bounds of reason). If it was daring overall or even just for your organization, we want to hear about it!

Now get those submissions in! We can't wait to check out all the great campaigns, as always!