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NPD Awards

Outstanding Philanthropist Awards

The Outstanding Philanthropist Awards will be presented this year to four individuals and an organization in the local philanthropic community whose generous gifts of time, expertise, and resources have truly made Northeast Indiana a better place. Nominations for these awards are currently being solicited from Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells, and Whitley counties.
 
Awardees will be invited to attend the Outstanding Philanthropist Awards Breakfast on November 17, 2010 at Ceruti’s Catering at 6601 Innovation Blvd., Fort Wayne, Indiana to accept their award. A video will be professionally produced about the awardees and their philanthropic activities. Nomination forms can be downloaded here:
 

 

Completed nomination forms must be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and mailed to: 2009 NPD Awards, AFP, PO Box 13498, Fort Wayne, IN 46869-3498. All nominations must be postmarked by Friday, October 1, 2010.

 
Past NPD Award Winners include:

    2008

  • Rebekah Graber
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (K-12)
     
  • Student Government Association of Ivy Tech Community College
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (College)
     
  • Steel Dynamics, Inc
    Outstanding Corporate Philanthropist
     
  • Patricia Miller & Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
    Outstanding Philanthropists

    2007

  • St. John the Baptist Catholic School students
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (K-12)
     
  • Leyla Mansour-Cole
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (College)
     
  • Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corporation
    Outstanding Corporate Philanthropist
     
  • Don A. Wolf
    Outstanding Philanthropist

    2006 

  • The Chapel Students in Action
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (K-12)
     
  • Student Leadership Academy, Ivy Tech
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (College)
     
  • Do it Best Corp
    Outstanding Corporate Philanthropist
     
  • Tom and Marg Jehl
    Outstanding Philanthropists

    2005

  • Sarah M. Goble
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (K-12)
     
  • IPFW Men’s and Women’s Soccer Student Athletes
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (College)
     
  • Farmers State Bank
    Outstanding Corporate Philanthropist

  • Jim and Pat Barrett
    Outstanding Philanthropists
     
  • Kathryn “Katie” Leonard
    Special Community Service Award

    2004

  • F.I.S.T. Youth Pod of Steuben County
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (High School)
     
  • New Haven Middle School
    Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy (Middle School)
     
  • General Electric Company and IUE-CWA Local 901 and IAM Lodge 70
    Outstanding Corporate Philanthropist
     
  • M. Frances Ganaway
    Outstanding Philanthropist