NFFN Annual Awards

The Sister Pat Kelley Achievement Award is the National Fuel Funds Network’s highest honor. The award recognizes exemplary personal achievement in furthering the organization’s goals of increasing public awareness of low-income energy problems, advancing energy assistance policy and promoting charitable energy assistance. 

This year the NFFN honors the contributions of David Carroll who has dedicated his career to research on low-income energy issues and has made substantial contributions to furthering the NFFN’s objectives. For more than 25 years, Mr. Carroll’s research and analysis low-income energy assistance and energy efficiency programs have advanced low income energy policy and improved the efficiency of low income energy programs across the nation.

NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall presents the award to David Carroll.

The Victorine Q. Adams Award highlights institutional innovations and achievement among nonprofit NFFN members. This year the award goes to the Energy Services, Inc.’s Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund for its creative fund raising projects.

In 2010, the KWW/CF unveiled a corn maze in the suburbs of Madison and it attracted 1,300 visitors. Last year more than 2,600 people visited the corn maze raising more than $70,000 for energy assistance.   Additionally, the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund has started a fund raising promotion with Schoep’s Ice Cream where the company will produce and sell special flavors with the KWW/CF logo and will donate a portion of the sales to the fund.

NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall presents the award to Tim Bruer.

The NFFN Corporate Excellence Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a company on behalf of its low income customers. This year the award goes to TXU Energy for its TXU Energy Aid^sm program which, since 1983, has provided over $72 million in temporary bill-payment assistance and aided 415,000 families across Texas when they needed it most.

The commitment to help those in need runs throughout TXU Energy where over the last 8 years employees alone donated $1.8 million to the program. Last year 1,409 employees donated $336,656 to TXU Energy Aid^sm, the largest employee campaign to date.

Kim Campbell of TXU Energy accepted the award from NFFN Chairman Tom Stovall.