2026 DATABASE CHAMPION AWARDS
Behind Every Successful Nonprofit is Someone Who Made the Data Work
Introducing the inaugural Database Champion Awards, a recognition program presented by Omatic and created to celebrate the customers who are quietly doing the most important work in the sector.
The Work that Makes Everything Else Possible
The Database Champion Awards were created for the people who quietly keep everything running from behind the scenes.
The ones who built the integration that no one notices until it breaks. Who cleaned the data before the board meeting. Who made the numbers tell the right story.
This program exists to celebrate them.
Award Categories
Each category honors a different kind of excellence, reflecting the different ways you show up for your mission every day.
Data Steward of the Year
For the customer who knows every feature, every workflow, and every capability, and uses all of them. This award honors the depth of mastery that only comes from truly caring about the craft.
Transformation Leader
For the customer who looks at a feature and sees a use case nobody else has tried yet. This award honors the imagination and curiosity it takes to turn a tool into something entirely new.
Change Maker
For the customer who’s only been live a matter of months and is already moving like they’ve been doing this for years. This award honors the urgency and instinct it takes to turn a fresh start into fast, lasting change.
Mission Impact Driver
For the customer who can point to the number, the dollar, or the hour saved—and back it up. This award honors the discipline and rigor it takes to turn a system into results you can measure.
Work has a Story Worth Telling
They may not write the grant reports or stand at the gala podium, but their fingerprints are on every dollar raised, every campaign that worked, and every board report that told the real story.
Being named a Database Champion winner is recognition that someone’s approach to data and operations is setting a standard. At a moment when the entire sector is reckoning with how to modernize, winners are identified as the ones who figured it out early and did it well.
Submitting is a chance to put a name on the work behind the work. The decisions, the integrations, the processes that turned data into direction and direction into results that mattered for the organization’s mission.
