Tongue-in-Cheek ‘Just Awards’ Go to Rockefeller Foundation and New York Times
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 20, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
In a rare display of the nonprofit world mocking itself, Blue Avocado and Nonprofit Online News have announced the winners of their “Just Awards.”
The dubious honor of winner for the Award for Abominable Press Coverage went to The New York Times’s Stephanie Strom for her November 2009 article “Charities Rise, Costing U.S. Billions in Tax Breaks.”
And winner of the Award for Narcissism in Philanthropy went to the Rockefeller Foundation for, as Blue Avocado put it, the foundation’s “overwhelming and relentless promotions of its president, Judith Rodin.”
The judges for the Just Awards were:
- Rick Cohen, national correspondent for The Nonprofit Quarterly.
- Alana Conner, senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- Aaron Dorfman, the executive director for the Center for Responsive Philanthropy.
- Robert Egger, head of DC Central Kitchen.
- Priscilla Hung of Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training/GIFT
- Frank J. Omowale Satterwhite of the National Community Development Institute.
- Rosetta Thurman, a consultant.
Ms. Strom said in an e-mail message that she was flattered by the award. The Rockefeller Foundation declined to comment.
What do you think? Did the winners deserve such dubious honors?
