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Rachel Lloyd, a hero for youth |
HEROES for Youth
For: Individuals who dedicate their work to providing services nationally to at-risk youth.
By: National Safe Place and Southwest Airlines.
Winner: Rachel Lloyd, founder and executive director of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), for her work against sexual exploitation and trafficking of girls and women.
Contact: (502) 635-4392, http://www.nationalsafeplace.org/heroes/index.php.
Grawemeyer Award in Religion
For: Individuals with a unique and deep insight into the relationship between people and the divine.
By: University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Winner: Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Chicago’s Interfaith Youth Core, for his autobiography, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (2007).
Contact: Susan Garrett, (502) 895-3411, grawemeyer@lpts.edu, http://grawemeyer.org/religion/.
David Liederman Award
For: Innovators in leadership development and workforce practices.
By: Child Welfare League of America and the Walker Trieschman Center.
Winner: The Children’s Village, for top practices in strategic planning, management training and development, board involvement, cultural competence and leadership.
Contact: Cassaundra Rainey, (703) 412-3169, crainey@cwla.org, http://www.cwla.org/awards/workforcecompetition.htm.
Awards of Excellence
By: National Network for Youth.
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Sandy Bowen |
Winners: Lifetime Achievement Award – Sandy Bowen, National Safe Place executive director, for her work to expand the Safe Place model from one program in Louisville, Ky., to a network of agencies in 38 states; Golden Pen Media Award – Justin Reed Early, author of Street Child, a memoir that documents the lives and deaths of street children; Executive Leadership Award of Excellence – Elaine Gallina Spaull, executive director at The Center for Youth, Rochester, N.Y.; Champions for Homeless Youth – U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Abigail English of the Center for Adolescent Health and the Law; Agency of the Year – Huckleberry Youth Programs, San Francisco.
Contact: (202) 783-7949, http://www.nn4youth.org.
