Every year, MNN honors the passion and impact of nonprofit professionals and organizations in the state’s nonprofit sector with the Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Excellence Awards highlight the incredible work of nonprofit professionals and organizations across the state in six categories. The 2019 Excellence Awards were given at Nonprofit Awareness Day: A Celebration of Nonprofit Excellence on June 3, 2019 at the Massachusetts State House.
The 2019 Nonprofit Excellence Award winners were:
- Excellence in Advocacy – Teens Leading The Way
- Excellence in Collaboration – Community Access to the Arts
- Excellence in Innovation – Y2Y Network, Inc.
- Excellence in Leadership – Radha Natarajan, Executive Director, New England Innocence Project
- Excellence by a Small Nonprofit – Fresh Start Furniture Bank
- Excellence by a Young Professional – Andy Short, Co-Director, Improbable Players
The 2019 Nonprofit Excellence Award Finalists were:
- Advocacy
- Alzheimer’s Association Massachusetts/New Hampshire
- Arts|Learning, Inc.
- Common Cause Massachusetts
- Teens Leading the Way (TLTW)
- Collaboration
- Boch Center/ArtWeek
- Cambridge School Volunteers
- Community Access to the Arts
- VNA Care
- Innovation
- Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled (CORD)
- Found in Translation
- RIA House, Inc. – Ready.Inspire.Act
- The Phoenix
- Y2Y Network, Inc.
- Leadership
- Christine Buckley, Brain Aneurysm Foundation
- Priscilla Kane Hellweg, Enchanted Circle Theater
- Imari Paris Jeffries, Parenting Journey
- Radha Natarajan, New England Innocence Project
- Amy Sousa, The Guild for Human Services
- Small Nonprofit
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank
- It Takes a Village
- To the Moon and Back
- Working for Worcester
- Young Professional
- Lauren Gablinske, Samaritans Inc.
- Ramsel Gonzalez, ZUMIX
- Cliff Notez, HipStory Films
- Katharine Pong and Amelia Thelen, On The Rise, Inc.
- Andy Short, Improbable Players
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