CECP Announces Excellence Awards Selection Committee

Comprised of an esteemed multidisciplinary jury
Nov 30, 2010 9:00 AM ET

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) November 30, 2010 - CECP engages an esteemed jury from the corporate, nonprofit, government, investment, consulting, media, and academic communities to bring their significant expertise to the Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy selection process. The jurors meet in person in New York City for a day-long session to discuss and select the leading applications.

The Selection Committee for the 11th Annual Excellence Awards will include:



Kathy Bushkin Calvin

Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Foundation



Jean Case

CEO, Case Foundation



Ophelia Dahl

Executive Director, Partners in Health

Excellence Award Winner



Shelly Esque

President, Intel Foundation, Intel Corporation

Excellence Award Winner



Darell Hammond

CEO and Co-Founder, KaBOOM!

2010 Recipient, The American Express NGen Leadership Award



Tony Kingsbury

Dow Chemical Executive-in-Residence, Haas School of Business



Ellen Luger

Executive Director, General Mills Foundation, General Mills, Inc.

Excellence Award Winner



Joel D. Selanikio

CEO and Co-Founder, DataDyne.org

DataDyne.org was recognized as one of Fast Company Magazine’s

10 Best Social Enterprises of 2009



Roxanne Spillett

President and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Excellence Award Winner



Andrea Taylor

Director, North America Community Affairs, Microsoft Corporation

What Makes Excellence?

Each year, CECP’s Excellence Awards recognize the companies that best demonstrate all four standards of excellence outlined below. For the Directors' Award, given annually to a nonprofit organization, the emphasis is on partnership with a corporation.

  1. CEO Leadership: CEO is actively and effectively involved in the success of the company’s community investment programs.

  2. Innovation: Nominated program stretches beyond traditional approaches and solutions in the pursuit of exceptional results for communities and the company.

  3. Dedication to Measurement: Company and its partners demonstrate a strong commitment to accountability, benchmarking, and continuous improvement throughout the nominated program’s lifecycle.

  4. Partnership: Collaboration with partners based on mutual interests and complementary assets that allow the nominated program to exceed the results that the applying company could achieve otherwise, whether alone or with other partners.

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