Communicator of Achievement is NDPC’s top honor

Communicator of Achievement (COA) is the highest honor NDPC can bestow upon one of its members. The award is presented annually to a member of NDPC and NFPW, our national organization, who has distinguished themself within and beyond their profession.

NDPC’s 2024 honoree will advance to NFPW's national competition, where COA judging is based on professional achievement, community service, and service to NFPW and NDPC.

The deadline to submit nominations for NDPC's 2024 COA award is Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. 

Nominations need not be lengthy or detailed but should be persuasive and address the award criteria identified above. Note that nominees must be NFPW members. If you are not certain your nominee is a national member, you can ask the membership vice president or the person you plan to nominate or log in to the NDPC website and search the 
member directory.

Tracy Frank named NDPC’s Communicator of Achievement 2023

Tracy Frank, development and communications director at CCRI, Inc., is NDPC's 2023 communicator of achievement. Read more>>



Sarah Mudder named NDPC’s Communicator of Achievement 2022

Sarah Mudder, communications and Photo of Sarah Mudder
events coordinator at North Dakota Housing Finance Agency, is NDPC's 2022 communicator of achievement. Read more>>



Previous NDPC Communicator of Achievement recipients

  • 2005 — Janell Cole
  • 2003 — Cathy Langemo
  • 2002 — Jo Ann Winistorfer
  • 2001 — Jane Brandt (also named 2001 NFPW Communicator of Achievement)
  • 1999 — Janet Gallagher
  • 1998 — Linda Sailer
  • 1997 — Ellen Crawford
  • 1996 — Patricia Estes
  • 1995 — Pauline Diede
  • 1994 — Judy Baer
  • 1993 — Francie Berg
  • 1992 — Doris Greenleaf
  • 1991 — Lou Richardson
  • 1990 — Syb Gullickson
  • 1989 — Lucille Hendrickson


  • 1988 — Lois Trapp
  • 1987 — Marjorie Potter
  • 1986 — Doris Eastman
  • 1985 — Frances Wold
  • 1984 — Agnes Geelan
  • 1981 — Bea Peterson
  • 1974 — Bea Peterson
  • 1969 — Dorothy Hager
  • 1967 — Corinne Shemorry
  • 1965 — Joyce Lang
  • 1962 — Marion Piper Sullivan
  • 1961 — Edith Thompson
  • 1960 — Rosamond Lowe
  • 1959 — Ruth Fairbanks
  • 1957 — Fern Lee
  • 1956 — Fern Lee



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