SAN FRANCISCO, CA –
World of Children (www.worldofchildren.org),
the only global
recognition and funding non-profit that recognizes
individuals who are changing the lives of children in the
U.S. and abroad, today issued a final call for nominations
for the 2010 World of Children Awards.
The much-coveted awards, which
recognize and provide funding to individuals whose
groundbreaking work has dramatically improved children’s
lives,
have been dubbed by the media as the “Nobel Prize®
for Child Advocacy”. Awards are granted in three
categories:
-
World of Children’s Youth Award,
which carries a grant of up to $25,000 and recognizes a
young person under the age of 21 who is making
extraordinary contributions to the lives of other
children.
-
World of Children Humanitarian Award,
which carries a grant of up to $50,000 and recognizes an
individual who has made a significant lifetime
contribution to children in the areas of social
services, education or humanitarian services. Nominees
must have created, managed or otherwise supported one or
more sustainable programs that have significantly
contributed to children’s opportunities to be safe, to
learn and to grow.
-
World of Children Health Award,
which carries a grant of up to $50,000 and recognizes an
individual who has made a significant lifetime
contribution to children in the fields of health,
medicine or the sciences. Nominees must have created,
managed or otherwise supported one or more sustainable
programs that have significantly contributed to
children’s health and well-being.
Nominees for the World of Children Humanitarian and Health
Awards must have been working on behalf of children over and
above their normal employment and have been engaged in their
efforts for a minimum of 10 years.
Nominations for the 2010 World of Children Awards must be
submitted
by midnight Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Saturday,
May 1, 2010. Recipients of the 2010 World of Children Awards
will be officially announced and celebrated in New York City
in November 2010.
“Each year World of Children searches the globe for ordinary
people doing extraordinary work on behalf of children in
need,” said Stephanie March, World of Children’s Celebrity
Ambassador. “Our World of Children Award honorees are a
remarkable example of the tremendous impact just one
individual can have on the lives of others.”
For more than a decade, World of Children has identified and
vetted some of the most promising changemakers for children
worldwide and provided funding for their efforts to improve
children’s lives. The organization’s exhaustive research and
vetting of individuals spearheading health and humanitarian
initiatives across the global spectrum has been hailed by
leading philanthropic organizations.
World of Children has been featured in Kenneth Cole’s
AWEARNESS: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference
(http://www.kennethcole.com/awearness/)
and previous World of Children honorees have been
featured by
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16kristof.html),
Fast Company Magazine, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Bonnie
Hunt Show, USA Today, People Magazine and a wide range of
national and international media. The World of Children
Awards have often served as a pivotal launching point for
its recipients.
World of Children is led by co-founders Harry Leibowitz and
Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz, retired senior executives from
Procter & Gamble and Victoria’s Secret, whose dream is to
bestow a Nobel Prize®-like award to honor social
changemakers who improve children’s lives. Since 1998,
World of Children has awarded more than $2 million in cash
grants to 84 changemakers working in more than 50
countries.
More about World of Children and its honorees is at
www.worldofchildren.org.
ABOUT WORLD OF CHILDREN
World of Children
(www.worldofchildren.org)
is the only global recognition and funding program for
people specifically and exclusively serving the needs of
children. Now a 12-year-old philanthropy dedicated to
identifying and leveraging the efforts of those working on
the ground to improve children’s lives, World of Children
has recognized some of the most promising changemakers for
children worldwide and provided funding and visibility for
their efforts.
Hailed recently by the media as the “Nobel Prize© for
Children,” the World of Children Awards program
searches the globe for everyday changemakers and provides
funding and recognition to support their life-changing work
for children. As such, World of Children acts like a social
venture capitalist – employing a world-class research,
review, vetting and selection process led by a committee of
independent experts and professionals to find those
individuals who are pioneering life-changing programs to
benefit children. Then World of Children invests, through
cash grants, in those enterprising individuals with a
demonstrated track record of success, honors them at an
annual awards ceremony in New York City and helps them
leverage their World of Children awards to raise additional
funds and generate visibility and strategic partnerships for
their programs.
Leading philanthropies praise this organization’s extensive
worldwide research and vetting of extraordinary individuals
who are spearheading health and humanitarian programs.
World of Children has awarded more than $2 million in cash
grants to 84 changemakers for children working in over 50
countries.