Eligibility

The Awards competition is open to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in and serving the following areas: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau County, Suffolk County and Westchester County.  National and international nonprofit organizations are eligible, but the application must focus on management activities in the New York City area. 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 mission, religious affiliation, ethnicity, socioeconomic grouping, ideological perspective or sexual orientation. Organizations do NOT need to be members of NPCC or NYRAG 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., 2009 award-winners cannot participate until the 2013 awards competition).