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Honoring Nonprofits in Your Community: 2012 Nonprofit Excellence Award Nominations Invited
March 13, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Adrienne Langlois,
Communications Manager
Massachusetts Nonprofit
Network
617-330-1188 x285, alanglois@massnonprofitnet.org
BOSTON- The
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN), the statewide organization that works to
strengthen the nonprofit sector in the Commonwealth and raise its profile, has
opened nominations for the fourth annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The
awards recognize the work of exceptional nonprofits and nonprofit leaders in
communities across the state. “Nonprofits touch every part of our lives,” said
Rick Jakious, Chief Executive Officer of MNN. “This is an opportunity to
recognize the nonprofits that make a unique contribution in your community.”
The Nonprofit Excellence Awards will be presented at MNN’s Nonprofit Awareness
Day celebration at the State House on June 11. Signed into law by Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick in 2007, Nonprofit Awareness Day, an annual holiday
raising awareness of the sector and celebrating its work, is the first state
holiday of its kind. Rev. Walter Tilleman, chairman of the board of directors
for Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc., said, “The Massachusetts Nonprofit
Network’s 2010 Nonprofit Excellence Award for Governance recognized the ethical
practices and principles that our dedicated, volunteer board of directors has
worked so hard to exemplify.”
“Receiving this award was a tremendous pat-on-the-back for our hard working
volunteers,” Tilleman said. “The MNN award is on display in our board room, and
we make sure that new board members see it and understand they are joining an
organization with a history of excellence.” Nonprofit Awareness Day was created
to underscore the significance of the sector: Nonprofits currently provide
455,900 jobs in the Commonwealth and employ 16.7 percent of the Massachusetts
workforce, according to a 2012 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil
Society Studies.
“Nonprofits are critical
to our economy, providing jobs and boosting tourism,” said Jakious. “They
protect our cultural, historical, and environmental treasures and enrich our
daily lives. The sector includes institutions of higher learning and
world-class cultural landmarks that define Massachusetts in many ways, as well
as organizations that provide critical services to our most underprivileged
residents.”
The awards were
conceived as a way to acknowledge leading organizations, and to create new
opportunities for them to tell their stories and to reach out to residents of
the state.
Nominations for the 2012
Excellence Awards may be made in seven categories:
• Advocacy
• Board Leadership
• Collaboration
• Communications
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Young Nonprofit
Professional
The deadline for nominations is March 28. Full descriptions of the awards and
nomination forms are available on the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network website: http://bit.ly/2012MNNExcellenceAwards
About the Massachusetts
Nonprofit Network
The Massachusetts Nonprofit
Network was launched in 2007 to strengthen communities by serving nonprofit
organizations in the Commonwealth. The organization raises the sector’s
visibility, engages members in public policy initiatives, and builds capacity
for individual organizations. MNN currently includes almost 500 members
representing nonprofits in every part of Massachusetts, from the Berkshires to
the Cape and Islands.
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