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Thank you for your interest in the Care2 Impact Prize. Voting is now closed.

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000, plus $1,000 to donate to their favorite charity. The prize will be awarded on Thursday, April 5th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, during the awards luncheon.

VINAY BHAGAT, Convio, Inc.

Vinay Bhagat founded software company Convio in 1999 after volunteering to answer phones for his local PBS station’s on-air pledge drive. This experience showed him the need for software that could make it easier for people to make charitable donations online, while also helping nonprofits to cultivate meaningful, one-to-one relationships with their donors.

Thirteen years later, the company that Vinay founded and helped to lead, including in his current role as Chief Strategy Officer, serves more than 1,600 nonprofit clients. In 2011 alone, these organizations used Convio’s tools to raise more than $1.3 billion. Many of these nonprofits also use the Convio platform for advocacy, winning major victories for their causes.

In nominating Vinay for this year’s Care2 Impact Prize, the judges noted the major contribution that he has made over the years as a thought leader in the nonprofit sector, especially as someone who pioneered analytical frameworks to build a business case for driving better integration of fundraising across channels.

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About the Judges and Selection Process: The five finalists for the Care2 Impact Prize were selected by a panel of distinguished judges—Holly Ross of NTEN; Clinton O’Brien of Care2; Heather Holdridge of Planned Parenthood; Mark Davis of Blackbaud; and Dennis McCarthy of Convio—out of a pool of 20+ nonprofit sector leaders initially considered. Nominees were selected using the 4 main criteria (as outlined above), and considerations were made to account for various types of impact, while giving equal weight to small and large organizations alike. For instance, criterion #3, the “Impact Delta” could be measured in fundraising dollars, or the quantity and quality of advocacy victories won, or the number of citizens participating in a cause, and a large impact at a small organization should be viewed as just as worthy as a big impact at a large organization.