The Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area has received the following honors and awards for its work to help people fight Parkinson’s Disease.
2025: Named Critical Nonprofit in the Greater Washington Region by Spur Local, formerly the Catalogue for Philanthropy
PFNCA has been recognized for excellence by the Catalogue for Philanthropy/Spur Local since 2014.
2023: Greater Washington Community Foundation David Bradt Non-Profit Leadership Award
In October 2023, the Greater Washington Community Foundation presented PFNCA President & CEO, Jared Cohen, with the David Bradt Non-Profit Leadership Award. As part of this award, Cohen received a $15,000 professional development scholarship. He used the scholarship to participate in a Harvard Business School Executive Education program.
2019: Honored for Innovation by the Public Interest Registry
PFNCA was a finalist in a global awards competition in the category of innovation. The competition — the .Org Impact Awards — was produced by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .ORG domain where millions of groups and individuals have established and grown their online identities. Click here to see an article about PFNCA on PIR’s website.
2019: Excellence Award presented by CVENT
PFNCA used a software platform called CVENT to manage its wellness and educational programs. CVENT is a global company based in McLean, VA that specializes in meetings, events, and hospitality management technology. Other finalists in the awards category PFNCA won included:
- Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a Netherlands-based global information services company serving legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets with operations in 180 countries, 18,000+ employees and revenue of $4.7B USD in 2018.
- Morningstar, Inc. is a global financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States with 4,000+ employees. It provides an array of investment-research and investment-management services. In 2018, Morningstar had $1B in revenue.
At the time CVENT presented the award, PFNCA had a staff of 4 FTE and revenue of about $1M.
2018: AIM Award for Excellence in Non-Profit Management (Honorable Mention) Presented by the Center for Non-Profit Advancement
PFNCA was given honorable mention recognition for the highly competitive AIM Award. The award winner had a budget of about $5M and 50 employees. The other honorable mention charity had a budget of about $28M and 700 employees. At the time receiving the honorable mention honor, PFNCA had a staff of 4 FTE and a budget of about $1M.
