Eligibility

The Awards competition is open to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in 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 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 type of nonprofit, regardless of mission, 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., 2010 award-winners cannot participate again until the 2014 awards competition).