Newswise — Grinnell College has created the Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize to honor individuals under the age of 40 who demonstrate leadership, creativity, commitment and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive social change. The program directly reflects Grinnell’s historic mission to prepare graduates to “use their knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good.”
Entries are encouraged across a wide range of fields, including science, medicine, the environment, humanities, business, economics, education, law, public policy, social services, religion and ethics, as well as projects that cross these boundaries. The prize will carry an award of $100,000, half to the individual and half to an organization committed to the winner’s area of social justice.
Nominations for the 2011 Prize are due by Feb. 1, with winners to be announced in May 2011. Nominees may be U.S. citizens or nationals of other countries; no affiliation to Grinnell College is required. Details of the program and its nomination process are available at www.grinnell.edu/socialjusticeprize.
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