Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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About the Awards

Nonprofits play a critical role in enriching and improving the lives of people throughout the greater New York City area. The 2009 New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards will be presented to up to four New York City area nonprofit organizations for excellence in organizational management. The Awards recognize management excellence and encourage innovation 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 Philanthropy New York (formerly 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 the Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education at Columbia Business School, Surdna Foundation, the Fund for the City of New York, McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, The New York Community Trust, the Altman Foundation, The Clark Foundation, The Venable Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, and the Hagedorn 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, relatively new or well-established organizations, and any part of the nonprofit sector, regardless of religious affiliation, ethnicity, socioeconomic grouping, ideological perspective or sexual orientation. Organizations do NOT need to be members of NPCC or Philanthropy New York to apply. In reviewing applications, the Selection Committee will take into account the management resources available to each organization in terms of funding, staff and volunteers. Start-up nonprofits are eligible, but the application and awards process focuses on management track record and results, not future plans.

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 2009 award-winner cannot participate until the 2013 award competition).

Committee members include:

• Hildy Simmons, consultant and grantmaker, Philanthropy Advisory Services, Selection Committee Chair
• Sr. Kwayera Archer-Cunningham, president and CEO, Ifetayo Cultural Arts
• Diane Arneth, executive director, Community Health Action of Staten Island
• Victoria Bailey, executive director, Theatre Development Fund
• Fran Barrett, executive director, Community Resource Exchange
• Richard Berlin, executive director, Harlem RBI
• Jessica Chao, vice president, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
• Kristin Giantris, vice president, Northeast Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund
• Don Crocker, executive director and CEO, 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 CEO, Communication for Social Change Consortium
• Amy Houston, director, Management Assistance, Robin Hood Foundation
• Geoffrey Knox, president and founder, Geoffrey Knox & Associates
• Mirm Kriegel, account manager, BBMG Branding
• Sandra Lamb, president and CEO, Lamb Advisors
• Sr. Paulette LoMonaco, executive director, Good Shepherd Services
• Yvonne Moore, executive director, The Daphne Foundation
• Ana Oliveira, president and CEO, New York Women’s Foundation
• Suvasini Patel, communications and outreach manager, WITNESS
• Hilda Polanco, managing director, Fiscal Management Associates
• Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, executive director, Hispanic Federation
• Patricia Swann, senior program officer, The New York Community Trust
• David Terrio, president, BTQ Financial
• Ann Marie Thigpen, director, Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Adelphi University

Ms. Simmons will serve as the chair of the selection committee, which does not include any representatives from the Times Company, NPCC or Philanthropy New York. 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 (September 12, 2008 - June 18, 2009) in order to insure impartiality and a level playing field for all applicants.

If you have questions about the Awards, contact Kristy Grammer at the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (kgrammer@npccny.org). You may also reach her by phone at the following number, 212-502-4191, extension 25.

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

• Marcia Brown, Director of Programs, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
• Ronna Brown, President, Philanthropy New York (formerly New York Regional Association of Grantmakers)
• Michael Clark, President, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
• Kristina Grammer, Associate Director for Special Programs, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
• Uchenna Hicks, Senior Manager of Community Affairs and Media Relations, The New York Times Company
• Diane McNulty, Executive Director of Community Affairs and Media Relations, The New York Times Company
• Jack Rosenthal, President, The New York Times Company Foundation, Inc.