Nonprofit Excellence Awards


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Look for a special advertising section about the Awards in The New York Times on Monday, July 7th. The section will tell you more about this year's winners.

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The New York Times Company Announces Four Winners for the Second Annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards

The New York Times Company Announces Four Finalists for the Second Annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards

The New York Times Company Announces Second Annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards

The New York Times Company Announces Four Winners of Its First Nonprofit Excellence Awards

About the Awards

Nonprofits play a critical role in enriching and improving the lives of people throughout the greater New York City area. The 2008 New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards will be presented to four New York City area nonprofit organizations for excellence in organizational management. The Awards recognize management excellence and encourage innovation and communication among New York’s large and diverse nonprofit community.

The NYTCO Nonprofit Excellence Awards is a project of The New York Times Community Affairs Department, the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) and the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers. NPCC serves as the tax-exempt sponsor of this award. Additional financial and in-kind support is provided by RSM McGladrey, Inc., The New York Community Trust, and the Surdna Foundation.

Eligibility
Awards competition is open to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in and serving New York City or the surrounding areas: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau County, Suffolk County and Westchester County. The competition is free to all applicants.

Applications are welcome from small as well as large organizations, new or well-established organizations, and any part of the nonprofit sector, regardless of religious affiliation, ethnicity, socioeconomic grouping, ideological perspective or sexual orientation. In reviewing applications, the Selection Committee will take into account the management resources available to each organization in terms of funding, staff and volunteers.

Once an organization has received an award, that organization will become ineligible to participate in the competition for the following three years (e.g., the 2008 award-winner cannot participate until the 2012 award competition).

Committee members include:

  • Victoria Bailey, Executive Director, Theatre Development Fund
  • Irene Baldwin, Executive Director, Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development
  • Fran Barrett, Executive Director, Community Resource Exchange
  • Raphael Bemporad, Founding Partner and Principal, BBMG Branding
  • Joyce Bove, Senior Vice President, New York Community Trust
  • Jessica Chao, Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
  • Kristin Giantris, Vice President, Northeast Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund
  • Don Crocker, Executive Director and C.E.O., Support Center for Nonprofit Management
  • Michael Davidson, Chair, Governance Matters
  • Sean Delany, Executive Director, Lawyers Alliance of New York
  • Dennis Derryck, Professor, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
  • Denise Gray-Felder, President and C.E.O., Communication for Social Change Consortium
  • Geoffrey Knox, President and Founder, Geoffrey Knox & Associates
  • Sandra Lamb, Consultant, President and CEO, Lamb Advisors
  • Sr. Paulette LoMonaco, Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services
  • Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, Executive Director, Hispanic Federation
  • Mary McCormick, President, Fund for the City of New York
  • Yvonne Moore, Executive Director, The Daphne Foundation
  • Ana Oliveira, President and C.E.O., New York Women’s Foundation
  • Michael Park, Director of Finance and Administration, Robin Hood Foundation
  • Suvasini Patel, Communications and Outreach Manager, WITNESS
  • Hilda Polanco, Managing Director, Fiscal Management Associates
  • Hildy Simmons, Consultant and Grantmaker, Philanthropic Advisory Services
  • David Terrio, President, BTQ Financial
  • Darren Walker, Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation

Mr. Walker serves as the chair of the selection committee, which does not include any representatives from The Times, NPCC or NYRAG. Applicants and representatives of applicant organizations are not to contact or lobby members of the Selection Committee concerning any aspect of the Awards program during the Awards selection process (October 16, 2007 - November 30, 2007) in order to insure impartiality and a level playing field for all applicants.

If you have questions about the Awards, contact Michael Clark at the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (mclark@npccny.org ) or Gilda Wray (gwray@npccny.org) or Kristy Grammer (kgrammer@npccny.org). You may also reach them by phone at the following number, 212-502-4191.

The Times also wants to recognize the ongoing important contributions of the Nonprofit Excellence Award Advisory Committee:

  • Jack Rosenthal, President, New York Times Company Foundation
  • Ronna Brown, President, NYRAG
  • Michael E. Clark, President, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
  • Diane McNulty, Executive Director of Community Affairs and Media Relations, The New York Times
  • Marcia Brown, Director of Programs, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

 

 

The New York Times 2008 Nonprofit special section supported by CITI will be available in print on July 7, 2008.

Click here to view a PDF of The New York Times 2007 Nonprofit special section.

 
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