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“I value the awards and your contributions, and I mean that… We are at the receiving end of the very important services that you provide.”
-Governor Deval Patrick, MNN 1st Annual Nonprofit Awareness Day
“As last year’s recipient of the Governance Award it gave our organization immediate recognition with our community stakeholders. The award was widely publicized and helped the agency secure additional grants and other funding opportunities. Our Board of Directors were very proud of receiving the award. Our agency currently publicizes the award on our website and is also highlighted in our agency’s Annual Report.”
-Marty Martini, Executive
Director of Minute Man Arc for Human Services, Inc.
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Congratulations to our 2009
Award Winners!
MNN
Nonprofit Advocacy Award: Dot Art
The mission of Dot Art is to make
exemplary visual arts education available to everyone in Dorchester
and surrounding neighborhoods. Advocacy for access to the arts on
behalf of Dot Art's target population is vital, and has
required creative approaches. Dot Art's effective advocacy
stems from its openness to change in response to shifts in need and
on-going dialog with constituents and collaborators. Despite its
small annual budget and staff, Dot Art typically teaches 1,000+
students each year, and reaches thousands more through its public
art installations and performances, a reach the organization
attributes to its creative advocacy principles.
MNN
Nonprofit Collaboration Award: Fairmont/Indigo Line
CDC Collaborative
Building on the advocacy of several
neighborhood-based community organizations for new T stations and
more frequent service, the Fairmount/Indigo
Line CDC Collaborative, formed in 2004, includes four
Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that have contiguous
boundaries along the Fairmount Corridor. The Collaborative
CDCs are: Dorchester Bay EDC, Codman Square NDC, Mattapan CDC,
and Southwest Boston CDC. By working together, the
Collaborative has been able to launch one of the most ambitious
development programs in the City of Boston, and has attracted
resources, media and funder attention that would not have been
possible working alone.
MNN Nonprofit Governance Award: Minute Man Arc
Minute Man Arcof
Concord is committed to enhancing the quality of life for people of
all ages with developmental disabilities and their families. They
fully integrate board members, sometimes family members of those it
serves, and senior managers as strategic partners for the
management and oversight of the organization. Through its successful
collaborations, the board and staff is exploring alternative revenue
streams and creative models within the service delivery system to
enhance services to its clients.
MNN Nonprofit Innovation Award: Community Servings
Community Servings is dedicated to providing free, home-delivered meals
throughout eastern Massachusetts to people home-bound with acute,
life-threatening illnesses and who are unable to shop or cook for
themselves. Community Servings has served over 3.6 million free
meals to the critically ill since 1990. Two recent innovative
programs include: Meals for Many Social Enterprise and
Community Servings Teaching Kitchen. The organization is using the
increased capacity of a new state-of-the-art nutrition facility to
sell culturally appropriate, nutritionally tailored meals to schools
and nonprofits that serve vulnerable populations. This
business approach makes wise use of core expertise in medical
nutrition therapy and specialized diets and also provides
revenue. The Community Servings Teaching Kitchen program grew
from the recognition that for many, the problem of hunger is not a
matter of access to food, but instead, a matter of breaking the
cycle of poverty and creating higher levels of self-sustainability
through steady, skilled employment.
MNN Nonprofit Leadership Award: Billy Starr, Pan-Massachusetts Challenge
The
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) raises money for
life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute through an annual bike-a-thon that crosses the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Billy Starr, founder
and executive director of the Pan-Mass Challenge, manages the PMC
with a commitment to efficiency, quality and authenticity. The PMC
raises and contributes more money to charity than any other athletic
fund-raising event in the United States. The Pan-Mass Challenge
celebrates its 30th ride on this August.
MNN Nonprofit Management Award: Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
The mission of Big
Sister Association of Greater Boston is to help girls
realize their full potential by providing them with positive
mentoring relationships with women. In late 2007, the entire agency
staff and Board of Directors built an agency culture document that
includes the Mission, Vision, Values, Core Competencies and Culture.
The management efforts have produced significant positive outcomes
in reducing expenses while maintaining and even growing its services
to Greater Boston girls.
MNN Nonprofit Young Professional
Award: Megan Trombly of Strong Women, Strong Girls
Meghan
Trombly of Strong Women, Strong
Girls has focused tirelessly on researching best
practices from high performing not for profit agencies and bringing
to SWSG the best of the best: creating replicable systems, building
a strong brand, creating standardized documents and a virtual
distribution mechanism, and providing on-going staff
training. SWSG utilizes the lessons learned from strong
women throughout history to encourage girls and young women to
become strong women themselves. This is done by partnering college
undergraduate women as volunteer mentors for low income girls in
grades 3-5.
Judges
Laurie Dopkins -
Senior Research Associate, Program Coordinator,
Northeastern University School of
Social Science
Donna Haig Friedman - Center Director
and Research Associate Professor,
University of Massachusetts Boston
Kristen McCormack -Executive-in-Residence, Lecturer, Faculty Director,
Boston
University Public and Nonprofit Management Program
Melissa Morriss-Olson - Graduate
School Dean, Professor of Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy,
Bay Path College. |
