Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation wins award for Outstanding Communications for Community Outreach Campaign

Council on Foundations - The Annual Wilmer Shields Rich Award Competition

Studio City, CA - The Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation has been named a Bronze Award Winner for excellence in communications by the 2010 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program, for its public information campaign and website, VirtualSiteVisit.org.

The Wilmer Shields Rich Award recognizes grantmaking foundations and corporate giving programs for excellence in communication strategies and techniques that advance their grantmaking goals. The award began in 1984 and is named after Wilmer Shields Rich, the first executive director of the National Council on Community Foundations (now the Council on Foundations). She was an early champion of public accountability by charitable foundations, which she encouraged through publications and other forums. This year, the Council honored seventy one foundations across six different categories of communications. Awardees were evaluated on overall outcomes/impact, message and design effectiveness, organization of content, and outreach/distribution strategies.

The foundation earned a Bronze Award, joining the Marguerite Casey Foundation, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties, and the PG&E Foundation in our category. For more information on online Virtual Site Visits, please visit http://virtualsitevisit.org. For more information on the Wilmer Shields Awardees, please visithttp://www.cof.org/events/conferences/2010Annual/awards.cfm