New York City, September 26, 2025 - A transformational convening of humanitarians for conversations ranging from social justice to healthcare to education to climate change and forced migration, all while cultivating camaraderie and collaborationNEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Charles Bronfman Prize celebrated its 20th Anniversary this week honoring Prize Laureates of the last two [...]
New York, January 15, 2025 - The Charles Bronfman Prize is proud to announce Gideon Maltz, CEO of the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent), as the recipient of the 2025 Charles Bronfman Prize, an annual award recognizing young humanitarians whose work is inspired by Jewish values and has global impact.Under Maltz’s leadership, Tent has transformed the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
