Event sponsors include Mitch-Stuart, Inc., Moore, Grant Thornton, EveryAction, JMT Consulting, and data axle. The fine china will be rolled out for honorees and their guests as they are feted in Washington, D.C., next month during the annual NPT Power & Influence Top 50 Gala at The National Press Club. There are 16 new honorees on the 2021 honor roll and four executives returning to the list after a hiatus. There is quite a bit of turnover in this year’s roll call. The executives must have had an impact during the previous 12 months. This is not a lifetime achievement award. While food, shelter, ammunition, and other resources are of prime importance, a community also needs a herculean leader. You will have to take care of your community and fulfill its needs. A committee of The NPT editorial staff, contributors and a few executives plugged in to executive movement were involved in the selection process. Most of the experience in State of Decay 2 revolves around the community that you build. The 2021 honorees were selected from a group of roughly 300 top executives. In many cases this year day-in, day-out was 24/7/365 and still going. An important criteria of the list is that the honoree must be a working day-in, day-out executive. The leaders highlighted in this 24th annual NPT Power & Influence Top 50 have distinguished themselves as initiators, innovators and leaders. Infrastructure is finally receiving deserved respect. The year quite possibly launched a new era in philanthropy, with major donors and foundations eliminating the red tape and strings attached to funding. Executives in some cases risked their lives – staring down threats to personal safety – to ensure those who needed help got as much as could be mustered. The evolution of thinking, planning and implementation of 360-degree services focusing on shelter, food and healthcare is what held a nation together. There has been voluminous coverage of the hardships but little mention of the reality that the sector’s response was years in the making. The year was a showcase of frontline heroes, many of whom were tied to nonprofits, and leaders who with their staffs found a way to adapt and overcome the hardship of a 100-year pandemic.
There are words to describe the past year but they either fall short of comprehensiveness or you simply can’t print them in a professional publication. You’d excuse a nonprofit executive for looking to the sky and expecting frogs to be raining down. The Pandemic Didn’t Social-Distance These Executives From Mission