Posted on September 30, 2007

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ePhilanthropy Foundation Announces International Awards for 2007

The Washington, D.C.-based ePhilanthropy Foundation has announced the winners of the 2007 International ePhilanthropy Awards.

The awards recognize individuals, organizations, and companies that are using the Internet creatively and successfully to engage millions of people in support of worthy causes. The International Fund for Animal Welfare received the People's Choice Award for its StopTheSealHunt.org Web site and program, which has registered ninety-six thousand online activists and raised more than $190,000. The award program drew nearly ten thousand votes worldwide — a record.

Other winners include Peace x Peace in Washington, D.C., for its global network that connects individual women and women's circles worldwide through the Internet; the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia for its Friends for Peace project; Toronto-based Gulu Walk for successfully coordinating thirty thousand people in eighty-two cities and fifteen countries to walk for peace in northern Uganda; and the Netherlands-based Mama Cash for its second annual Campaign 88 Days to educate people about, and attract donor support for, issues affecting women and girls.

"As a fundraising professional for almost forty years, I can say that the advent of the Internet has had an incredible impact on the sights of the individual donor," said EPF board chair Bob Carter. "The ability for not-for-profits of all shapes and sizes to communicate, cast a vision, touch potential donors, tell their stories, and receive contributions is truly global."

“ePhilanthropy Foundation Announces Winners of 2007 International ePhilanthropy Awards.” ePhilanthropy Foundation Press Release 9/20/07.

Primary Subject: Philanthropy and Voluntarism
Secondary Subject(s): Animal Welfare, Women, International Affairs/Development
Location(s): Canada, International, Netherlands, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Toronto, Uganda, Washington, DC

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