The New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards

Nonprofit Excellence Awards

The New York Times Company Announces 2011 Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Click here to apply.

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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 New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards will be presented to up to three 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. NPCC serves as the tax-exempt sponsor of this award. Additional financial and in-kind support in the past year was provided by The Clark Foundation, Google Inc., the Surdna Foundation, McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, the Fund for the City of New York, Social Enterprise Programs in Executive Education at Columbia Business School, The New York Community Trust, New York Life Foundation, The Venable Foundation, Wells Fargo, Community Resource Exchange and the Altman Foundation.

Eligibility
Awards competition is open to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in 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 20011 award-winner cannot participate until the 2015 award competition).

Committee members include: (in formation)

Hildy Simmons, consultant and grantmaker, Philanthropy Advisory Services, Selection Committee Chair
Sr. Kwayera Archer-Cunningham, president and CEO, Ifetayo Cultural Arts
Gary, Bagley, executive director, New York Cares
John Best, director of human resources, Good Shepherd Services
Cecilia Clarke, executive director, Sadie Nash Leadesrhip Project
Anne Coates, vice president, Alliance for the Arts
Don Crocker, executive director and CEO, Support Center for Nonprofit Management
Michael Davidson, chair, Governance Matters
Dennis Derryck, professor, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Ernst Duncan, COO/CFO, Vera Institute for Justice
Gretchen Dykstra, consultant in strategic communications
Yancy Rubén Garrido, program officer, The Clark foundation
Kristin Giantris, vice president, NE Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Andrew Hamingson, executive tirector, The Public Theater
Richard Hobish, executive director, Pro-Bono Partnership
Paul J. Howard, director of development, Center for Urban Community Services
Geoffrey Knox, president and founder, Geoffrey Knox & Associates
Valyrie Laedlein, deputy director, Community Resoruce Exchange
Sandra Lamb, president and CEO, Lamb Advisors
Judy Levine, executive director, Cause Effective
Craig Mills, charter school consultant
Scott Millstein, executive director, Coro New York Leadesrhip
Thaler Pekar, independent communications consultant, Thaler Pekar & Partners
Hilda Polanco, managing director, Fiscal Management Associates
Robin L. Robin, director of human resources, Girls Inc.
Meryl Schwartz, portfolio manager, Blue Ridge Foundation New York
Anne Sherman, associate director, TCC Group
Patricia Swann, senior program officer, The New York Community Trust
Ann Marie Thigpen, director, Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Adelphi University
Marlyn Torres, assistant vice president, senior program officer, New York Life Foundation
Geroge Weiner, chief technology officer, Do Something

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 1, 2010 - June 23, 2011) in order to insure impartiality and a level playing field for all applicants.

If you have questions about the Awards, contact Aditi Davray at the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (adavray@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:

Edward Bohan, manager, community affairs, The New York Times Company
Marcia Brown, director of programs, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Ronna Brown, president, Philanthropy New York
Michael Clark, president, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Aditi Davray, associate director for Special Programs, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Diane McNulty, executive director of Community Affairs and Media Relations, The New York Times Company
Jack Rosenthal, senior fellow, The Atlantic Philanthropies

2010 Winners of The New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards

The Sadie Nash Leadership Project - Winner for Overall Management Excellence (www.sadienash.org)
God’s Love We Deliver - Winner for Excellent Management ( www.godslovewedeliver.org)
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest - Winner for Excellent Management (www.nylpi.org)

Click here to view a PDF of The New York Times 2008 Nonprofit special section supported by CITI.

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

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