BBLF Members Won Zaedno Awards

Microsoft Bulgaria and For Our Children Foundation are among the winners of the Zaedno, or Together, Awards, a project of the Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation (WCIF) set to distinguish the best charity campaigns in 2013. For the ninth consecutive year the foundation promoted civic organisations’ efforts in gaining funding and the media coverage of philanthropy trends.

The award ceremony held on 4 July focused on the development of organisations in their efforts to solicit funds and finance various charity causes as well as on trends and issues they faced. That was why the people invited to hand out the awards were individuals strongly related to philanthropy and civic development. These included Konstantin Penchev, Bulgaria’s Ombudsman; Ms. Tale Kandal, Chargé d'Affaires at the Royal Norwegian Embassy; Alexander Dzhoganov, CEO and Board Member of Generali Insurance; Yordan Mateev, Editor-in-chief of Forbes Bulgaria; Iliyana Nikolova, CEO of WCIF; Maria Cherneva, journalist at Bulgarian National Television; Plamen Dichkov, Marketing Director at Bulgarian National Radio; and Vladimir Yonchev, Editor-in-chief of information web portal www.offnews.bg.

The ceremony also distinguished media and journalists who contributed to the promotion of charity campaigns. The special Civic Position Provoking Debate award was bestowed again. The event was supported by Vivacom Fund and The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Media partners of the event were BNR, Vagabond, Bulgaria’s first and only English magazine, Bulgaria On Air TV and radio station and offnews.bg.

Here is the full list of the winners:

BEST CAMPAIGN OF NGO:  Helping Refugees, Bulgarian Donors’ Forum, Refugees Support Group

BEST COOPERATION BETWEEN BUSINESS AND NGO: Career in IT, FEBA Alumni Association at Sofia University and Microsoft Bulgaria

MOST EFFICIENT CAMPAIGN: For Gabrovo Donors’ Circle, Community Donation Fund Gabrovo

INDIVIDUAL DONOR WITH A CAUSE: Milen Nikolaev Vrabevski MD, Path to University project

BEST FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN: It Is You Who Work Wonders This Christmas, For Our Children Foundation

MEDIA AWARDS:

- Media: info web portal vesti.bg

- Journalist: Angelina Genova, Dnevnik.bg

CIVIC POSITION PROVOKING DEBATE: Denitsa Sacheva and  Vladimir Shopov.

For details on the Zaedno awards please visit www.wcif-bg.org.