Nonprofit Excellence Awards winners provide inspiration for community

BizTimes Media recently hosted its second annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards program at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino. The event seeks to recognize the great work done by nonprofit organizations in the community and by members of the private sector who support those organizations in hopes that more will seek to follow their examples. Here, we present the inspirational stories of the winners and the finalists in this year’s Nonprofit Excellence Awards.

WINNER PROFILES:

CORPORATE CITIZEN

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Balistreri owned and operated Sendik’s Food Markets

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Wisconsin

NEXT GENERATION LEADERSHIP

Terrell Morgan & Julio Maldonado

Rael Szulc

Robert VanHimbergen

IN-KIND SUPPORTER

Fred Usinger Inc.

Lisa Greco

GS Design Inc.

CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS

Kate Langdon

Patrick Nowak

Roger Franzel

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Terry Sutter

Dr. J. Frank Wilson

Hannah Dugan

SMALL NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR (UNDER $3 MILLION)

College Possible

Camp Hometown Heroes

Safe & Sound

LARGE NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR (OVER $3 MILLION)

Rogers Memorial Hospital

Milwaukee Center for Independence

Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

ACTS Housing

Walnut Way Conservation Corp.

NONPROFIT COLLABORATION

Our Next Generation

Lad Lake

Sojourner Family Peace Center

NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

Robert Glowacki

Lupe Martinez

Dean Amhaus