Nonprofit Mission Awards recipients will receive:
- Recognition in front of 650 nonprofit peers at the 2019 MCN Annual Conference in Rochester
- A professional video production by Open Window Productions capturing the organization's work
- A one-of-a-kind art glass award, hand blown by Minnesota Glass Artist Robinson Scott
- A feature profile of your organization in MCN's Nonprofit News reaching 14,000 nonprofit employees
- A cash award (for all recipients except for Responsive Philanthropy recipient)
Timeline
March 25 - May 17
Call for Nominations
June 1 - June 14
The Nonprofit Mission Awards Selection Committee will review all complete nominations in the categories of Innovation, Anti-racism Initiative, Advocacy and Responsive Philanthropy and narrow the field of nominations to three finalists in each category. Finalists, as well as all nominations not advanced, will be notified.
June 17 - June 30
MCN member organizations and their staff members will be invited to vote on the winners from the field of finalists. The finalists with the winning number of votes in each category will be selected to receive the awards.
July 1
Recipients will be notified (but will not be publicly announced until September) and award video shooting will be scheduled and begin.
September
Award recipients are announced.
October
The Nonprofit Awards ceremony will take place during the MCN’s Annual Conference in Rochester on October 24-25.
Mission Awards Selection Process:
Staff members, board members, volunteers, program recipients, donors, or other supporters may nominate a nonprofit for a Mission Award.
The Nonprofit Mission Awards Selection Committee will then review all complete nominations in the categories of Innovation, Anti-racism Initiative, Advocacy, and Responsive Philanthropy and narrow the field of nominations to three finalists in each category.
All MCN member organizations and their staff members are invited to vote on the winners from the field of finalists. Voters can vote once in each category and must have their MCN Individual Member ID Number in order to cast their votes. The recipients of the four awards will be decided by member votes and the organizations receiving the most votes will win. Finalist organizations and their staff members are not eligible to vote within their own category.