Since 1992, members and the Board of the Central Ohio Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) have publicly recognized local philanthropic leaders and celebrated giving in our community through National Philanthropy Day (NPD)®. This year, as in years past, we look forward to having the distinct honor of paying tribute to those who change our community—and our world—though their philanthropy. 

Once you begin this online submission process, you will need to answer all questions and submit your nomination in a single seating. It is not possible to start, save and return to a nomination. We recommend that you download a complete nominations packet from our website and answer the questions offline so you can simply cut and paste your responses into this form. 

Thank you for your nomination!

The Columbus Foundation Outstanding Philanthropist

This award honors an individual or family with a proven record of exceptional generosity who, through direct financial support, demonstrates outstanding civic and charitable responsibility, and whose generosity encourages others to take philanthropic leadership roles on a community, national and/or international level. 

Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser

This award honors an individual or family who demonstrates exceptional skills in coordinating and motivating groups of volunteers for fundraising projects for the benefit of charitable institutions. The recipient must have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills in coordinating groups of volunteers for major fundraising projects for more than one nonprofit organization. NOTE: Individuals or consultants who are employed by the nonprofit for which they raised funds are not eligible for this award.

Outstanding Volunteer Fundraising Group

This award honors a group of volunteers who demonstrate exceptional skills in accomplishing fundraising projects for the benefit of charitable institutions. The recipients must have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills in coordinating groups of volunteers for major fundraising projects for at least one nonprofit organization. NOTE: Governing boards, boards of directors or sole member corporations are not eligible for this award. 

Oustanding Foundation

This award recognizes a community or family foundation (non-corporate) with a strong record of exceptional generosity that, through direct financial support, has demonstrated exceptional or innovative civic and charitable responsibility, and has encouraged and motivated others in the foundation community to take leadership roles in philanthropy and community involvement. NOTE: Corporate foundations are not eligible for this award. See Outstanding Large Corporation/Outstanding Small Business categories for corporate foundation nomination instructions.

For the purposes of this application, family and community foundation are defined as follows:

A family foundation is one whose funds are derived from members of a single family. At least one family member must continue to serve as an officer or board member of the foundation (e.g. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).

A community foundation is a publicly supported philanthropic organization with the long-term goal of building permanent, named funds, for the broad-based public benefit of the residents in a given area (e.g. Silicon Valley Community Foundation).

Outstanding Large Corporation

This award honors a corporation or corporate foundation that demonstrates outstanding commitment through financial support and through encouragement and motivation of others to take leadership roles toward philanthropy and community involvement. A large corporation is definied as having 500 or more local full-time equivalent (FTE) employees. 

For the purposes of this nomination, a corporate foundation is defined as follows:

A corporate foundation is a type of a private foundation that derives its grant making funds primarily from the contributions of a single profit-making business (e.g. The Wal-Mart Foundation, Inc.).

Outstanding Small Business

This award honors business or corporate foundations that demonstrate outstanding commitment through financial support and through encouragement and motivation of others to take leadership roles toward philanthropy and community involvement. A small business is definied as having fewer than 500 local full-time equivalent (FTE) employees.

For the purposes of this nomination, a corporate foundation is defined as follows:

A corporate foundation is a type of a private foundation that derives its grant making funds primarily from the contributions of a single profit-making business (e.g. The Wal-Mart Foundation, Inc.).

Big Lots Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy

This award recognizes service by a single youth or group (age 23 or younger) who demonstrates commitment to the community through personally raising funds or coordinating direct financial support, development of charitable programs, volunteering and leadership in philanthropy. NOTE: Organizations that facilitate giving by young people are not eligible for this award. 

Outstanding Fundraising Professional

This award honors an outstanding individual fundraising professional who practices his/her profession in an exemplary manner. NOTE: In order to be eligible for this award, the nominee must be an AFP member who has at least 15 years of professional fundraising experience.

Letters of Support

Up to three one-page letters of support from colleagues and nonprofits are welcome in addition to the nomination application.

If you do not yet have letters of support to attach, you may continue and submit your nomination now. Letters of support can be emailed seperately to nominations@centralohioafp.org, but must be received by March 15, 2019.

Include no more than three letters of support, and upload as PDFs.

Please review your nomination and click Submit Nomination when you are ready to submit. 

You will receive a confimation email once your nomination has been submitted. If you do not receive a confimation email, please contact nominations@centralohioafp.org.