The Center selected HOPE International to receive the Nonprofit Excellence Award for their HOPE Poverty Simulation, a 2.5-hour, immersive learning experience designed to help participants glimpse the realities of a lifetime in extreme poverty. Launching in 2017, the HOPE Poverty Simulation is an ideal entry point for Millennials and Post-Millennials to encounter philanthropy through experiential learning. However, given the … Continue Reading
The Center selected Westfall Gold to receive the Nonprofit Excellence Award for raising over $1 billion in donations for nonprofit organizations through their signature major donor events. Since launching in 2002, Westfall Gold has become the leading producer of major donor events, having managed over 400 events. A Westfall Gold Major Donor Experience is the ultimate relational fundraising … Continue Reading
The Center selected the MacArthur Foundation to receive the Nonprofit Excellence Award for nearly doubling the indirect cost recovery of 29% of project costs on all new project grants. The new policy is based on a research study the Foundation commissioned using IRS Form 990 data from more than 130,000 U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. The study sought to … Continue Reading
The Center selected Eckerd Connects as the first recipient of the Nonprofit Excellence Award for Eckerd Connects’ Eckerd Rapid Safety Feedback® minimizing child abuse deaths in the foster care system. Eckerd Connects’ Eckerd Rapid Safety Feedback was developed to stem the tide of child abuse deaths in Hillsborough County, Florida after an unprecedented nine child homicides in less than three years under the previous … Continue Reading