Awards

Nominations are open until July 31.


 Help us identify Greater Louisville & Southern Indiana ChangeMakers!

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence is accepting nominations for the 2023 ChangeMakers Awards for the Art of Excellence through July 31, 2023. These are the first awards since 2019, as Covid-19 prevented us from convening in 2020, 2021, and 2022.


 

About the Awards

 

The ChangeMakers Awards celebrate how our nonprofit sector improves the quality of life in our society daily. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence is pleased to elevate the contributions made by nonprofit organizations in five areas:  Collaboration, Inclusion, Governance, Vision, and Leadership. The first four awards are presented to nonprofit organizations, while the Leadership award is presented to an individual. 

 

Note that we will also be awarding a Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. CNPE’s Board of Directors will identify nominees and choose the recipient.

 

Each Award recipient will get a commemorative award and will be recognized at the awards celebration and reception following the CNPE’s ChangeMakers Conference from 4:30 to 6:00 on October 19, 2023, at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center. Get details and register for the Conference here if you have not done so already. Conference tickets include the Award Celebration and Reception. You can also buy tickets to attend only the awards ceremony here.

 

We thank our awards reception sponsor BeamSuntory for supporting this important event to celebrate and elevate the important work of the nonprofit sector. We also thank the sponsors of the five awards identified below.

 




ChangeMakers Awards Categories:


 

ART OF COLLABORATION Sponsored by Metro United Way 

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” ~ African Proverb

 

This award honors two or more nonprofit organizations (or at least two nonprofits and a for-profit company) that together have:

  • developed a common vision and shared values
  • addressed training, team building, and power sharing issues
  • generated outcomes that were improved by the collaboration
  • realized savings through collaboration


Make your nominations here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artofcollaboration

 

Prior recipients include:

Love the Hungry / WaterStep / Supplies Over Seas (2019)

Family & Children’s Place / Volunteers of America Mid-States (2018)

Louisville Ballet (2017)

Doctors & Lawyers for Kids (2016)


 

ART of GOVERNANCE Sponsored by Wyatt Tarrant & Combs

“If one has courage, nothing can dim the light that shines within.” ~ Maya Angelou


This award honors the Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization that has:

  • displayed an outstanding level of participation and partnership with their organization
  • provided active oversight of mission, planning, and program outcomes
  • contributed toward the financial health of the organization


Make your nominations here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artofgovernance

 

Prior recipients include:

Americana World Community Center (2019)

Second Chances Wildlife Center (2018)

The YMCA of Greater Louisville (2017)

Maryhurst, Inc. (2016)


 

ART OF INCLUSION Sponsored by PNC

The human condition is one about belonging. We simply cannot thrive unless we are in relationship. ~ john a. powell

 

This award honors a nonprofit organization that has:

  • defined how multicultural participation within an organization fosters improved outcomes 
  • embraced not just diversity but also inclusion in its board, staff, and clients
  • adopted a plan to promote both equity and anti-racism
  • generated strength through governance and service

 

Make your nominations here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artofinclusion


Prior recipients include:

Community Foundation of Louisville (2019)

Eastern Area Community Ministries (2018)

Interfaith Paths to Peace (2017)

Kentucky Refugee Ministries (2016)


 

ART OF VISION Sponsored by Norton Healthcare

Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Ghandhi

 

This award honors a nonprofit organization that has:

  • developed a collective vision that inspired action
  • connected that vision to its mission or to community priorities
  • demonstrated the community benefits of that mission

 

Make your nominations here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artofvision


Prior recipients include:

Kosair for Kids Face It® Movement (2019)

Smoketown Family Wellness Center (2018)

Waterfront Botanical Gardens (2017)

The Louisville Orchestra (2016)


 

ART OF LEADERSHIP Sponsored by MCM CPAs & Advisors

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” ~ Dolly Parton


This award honors an individual who has demonstrated the:

  • capacity to make decisions consistent with the organization’s mission and values 
  • capacity to rally people
  • ability to maximize the potential of staff and volunteers
  • ability to achieve mission-consistent results

 

Make your nominations here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artofleadership


Prior recipients include:

Christen Boone, President & CEO, Fund for the Arts (2019)

Rod Napier, Director, Programs & Facilities, Cabbage Patch Settlement House (2018)

Dr. Anthony Zipple, President & CEO, Centerstone Kentucky (2017)

Marta Maria Miranda, President & Chief Empowerment Officer, Center for Women & Families (2016)


 


How to Submit a Nomination


The Center for Nonprofit Excellence Awards Committee welcomes nominations of organizations and individuals that reflect the broad spectrum of the nonprofit sector in the types of services provided and constituencies served.


  • The achievements of the candidate organization/individual should include recent ones.
  • Nominated organizations/individuals must be (or be affiliated with) a nonprofit organization in the Greater Louisville & Southern Indiana area. 
  • Organizations and individuals may nominate themselves. 
  • The committee reviewing nominations is made up of winners from 2019. 
  • Nominations open July 15. The deadline is July 31, 2023.

 

We will notify both you and the nominee about award outcomes before the awards reception. 

 

To nominate a candidate for one or more Art of Excellence Awards, please complete and submit the appropriate Nomination Form, offered again below: