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The Charles Bronfman Prize celebrates 20 years of Jewish Values and Global Impact at the Jewish Museum in New York City: September 22-25, 2024

New York City, June 27, 2024 - For 20 years, The Charles Bronfman Prize has honored young humanitarian leaders whose work is grounded in their Jewish values and is of universal benefit to all people. The Charles Bronfman Prize laureates have created a reverberating impact in refugee rights, medicine, environment, education, criminal justice, food justice, entrepreneurship, the [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Now Accepting Nominations for 2025

New York, May 15, 2024 - New York, – The Charles Bronfman Prize is now accepting nominations through August 20th for its 2025 Prize.The $100,000 award is presented each year to an individual or team whose innovative humanitarian work, fueled by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world. Nomination forms and guidelines can be found [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Names Yotam Polizer as 2023 Recipient

New York, January 25, 2023 - Yotam Polizer, CEO of IsraAID, an international non-governmental humanitarian aid agency based in Israel, has been named the 2023 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize, the Prize founders announced today. Since its inception in 2001, IsraAID has been responding to humanitarian crises in over 50 countries. Most recently, for example, [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Now Accepting Nominations for 2023

New York, May 17, 2022 - New York, – The Charles Bronfman Prize is now accepting nominations through August 17th for its 2023 Prize.The $100,000 award is presented each year to an individual or team whose innovative humanitarian work, fueled by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world. Nomination forms and guidelines can be found on the Prize website. An international [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Names Nik Kafka as 2022 Recipient

New York, January 18, 2022 - Nik Kafka, the founder and CEO of Teach a Man to Fish, an organization which addresses the lack of opportunity for young people trapped in a cycle of poverty, was announced today as the 2022 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize.Kafka left a successful career in banking to launch Teach [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Now Accepting Nominations for 2022

New York, May 3, 2021 - NEW YORK, May 3 — The Charles Bronfman Prize is now accepting nominations through August 18th for its 2022 Prize. The $100,000 award is presented each year to an individual or team whose innovative humanitarian work, fueled by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world. Nomination forms and guidelines can be found on the Prize website. An [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize names Drs. Jessica Beckerman and Ari Johnson as 2021 Recipients

New York, January 12, 2021 - “No one should die waiting for health care” is the principle driving the efforts of Drs. Jessica Beckerman and Ari Johnson. They are the 2021 recipients of The Charles Bronfman Prize, the organization announced today.“Millions of people around the world die from curable diseases in settings of poverty, because they [...]

Feeding Humanity with Humanity: Charles Bronfman Prize to David Hertz of Gastromotiva

Brazil , October 28, 2020 - “Feeding humanity with humanity” is how Brazilian chef David Hertz passionately described his life’s work during a moving virtual celebration of The Charles Bronfman Prize, an award of $100,000, presented annually to a humanitarian under fifty whose innovative work, informed by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world.“We were thrilled to [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize Now Accepting Nominations for 2020

New York, November 1, 2019 - NEW YORK, November 1, 2019 – The Charles Bronfman Prize announced its worldwide call for nominations for its 2020 Prize. The $100,000 annual award is presented to an individual or team whose innovative humanitarian work, fueled by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world.Nominations are open from November 1, 2019 [...]

The Charles Bronfman Prize names David Hertz as 2019 Recipient

New York, September 5, 2019 - Brazilian-born chef and social entrepreneur David Hertz, who pioneered a model for using food to improve the lives of low-income people, is the 2019 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize. Hertz co-founded Gastromotiva, a Brazilian-based socio-gastronomic organization that fights, unemployment and social inequality and uses food waste as a tool [...]