Kids & Family

Dobb Ferry's Children's Village a Finalist for Nonprofit Award on Thursday

Dobbs Ferry non-profit organization The Children’s Village is among six finalists for the 2013 New York Community Turst-New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards.

The winners will be announced at a “Best Practices Workshop, Awards Presentation and Reception” at the Scholastic Auditorium in SoHo Thursday, Nov. 21. Three of the semifinalists will win the top award and receive $30,000, $20,000 and $10,000 cash prizes, respectively.

The Children’s Village learned it was named a top ten finalist over the summer

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"It’s an honor to be selected as a semifinalist from amongst a very strong group of candidates for this prestigious award,” Children's Village President and Chief Executive Jeremy Christopher Kohomban, Ph.D., said in August.

The Children’s Village is being recognized for its work with families to help society’s most vulnerable children become educationally proficient, economically productive, and socially responsible members of their communities.

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Its competition for Thursday’s award include:

CSH (Manhattan) helps build housing that lets those most in need, the homeless and disabled, connect to homes, health care, jobs, and the community.

DoSomething.org (Manhattan) is the largest nonprofit for young people and social change in the US. It encourages millions of young people to rock causes they care about, including bullying, homelessness, animal welfare, and more.

Make-A-Wish Metro New York and Western New York (Lake Success, Long Island) grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

The Bronx Defenders (Bronx) provides innovative, holistic, and client-centered criminal defense, family defense, civil legal services, social work support, and advocacy to indigent people of the Bronx.

BronxWorks (Bronx) helps individuals and families in the Bronx improve their economic and social well-being through job skills training, services for people with HIV/AIDS, preschools and summer camps, eviction prevention programs, and more.

In addition to their cash rewards, winners will receive a special mention in New York Magazine and by WNYC, and tuition scholarships for the programs in Social Enterprise in Executive Education at Columbia Business School

This year’s cash awards and benefits are the largest in the program’s seven-year history.

Award winners were selected by a 33-member selection committee based on their excellence in eight areas of nonprofit management: focus on results; governance structure; financial management; human resources; diversity and responsiveness; IT practices; communications; and fundraising.

Check back with Patch to see where The Children's Village placed.

 


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