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Kristin Boorse 2024 CRISIS AWARD CEO, Spotlight United States   Spotlight helps law enforcement find more kids, faster and stop future abuse.  Law enforcement doesn’t have enough time to navigate the online commercial sex market to find children and identify their traffickers. Spotlight interrupts the cycle of abuse by equipping frontline responders with intelligence to…

Kristi Krings 2024 Sholl-Freede Family Education Award CEO, Rachel’s Challenge United States Rachel’s Challenge was created after the Columbine High School shooting, in honor of Rachel Scott and the other victims lost on that terrible day. As the first widely known mass school shooting, the Columbine tragedy was a catalyst for action for many people.…

GRACE CALLWOOD 2019 YOUTH AWARD Founder, The We Cancerve Movement Maryland, United States Some people are born into this world to serve others. Grace Callwood is undoubtedly one of them. When she was two years old, Grace asked her family to donate a red wagon to the pediatric unit at the University of Maryland Upper…

CARAGAN OLLES 2018 YOUTH AWARD Co-Founder, Bright Young Dyslexics De Pere, Wisconsin For many children, the first days of kindergarten are filled with the unknown excitement of new friends, a new routine and new things to learn. For Caragan Olles, kindergarten was a constant struggle that left her in tears at the end of most…

SARAH CRONK 2018 HERO AWARD 2013 YOUTH AWARD  Founder, The Sparkle Effect United States In the fall of 2009, as Sarah Cronk and her new cheer team linked arms, walked onto the field, and claimed their place under the Friday night lights at Pleasant Valley High School in Bettendorf, Iowa, she couldn’t help but think…

TEAGAN STEDMAN 2017 YOUTH AWARD Founder, Shred Kids’ Cancer United States When Teagan was eight years old, his friend was diagnosed with cancer. Teagan immediately wanted to find a way to help, but the community organizations he contacted said that he was too young. Rather than give up and simply stand by as his friend…

Maureen Rover is boosting elementary school literacy rates by instilling a lifelong love and enthusiasm for reading in children.

Claire helps provide education, emotional support, and financial assistance to children and families affected by Cystic Fibrosis.

Nicholas provides children living in homeless shelters across the United States with brand-new footwear.

Jaylen Arnold was once the victim of bullying. Now, his engaging presentations help combat bullying across the USA.

As National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Marlo travels the USA, raising funds and awareness.

CATHERINE MILTON 1998 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Friends of the Children United States Catherine Milton has been committed to helping children and communities in need for nearly 30 years. She was the architect and first director of the Commission of National and Community Service, one of the most far-reaching youth/ community service initiatives in U.S. history. In…

Louise Pittman spent more than 60 years working to improve the well-being of children in need through VOICES for Alabama’s Children and other programs.

KATHLEEN MAGEE 1999 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Operation Smile Global As a nurse on a medical mission to the Philippines in 1981, Kathleen Magee witnessed inadequate hospital conditions and a sea of deformed children. Upon returning, she and her husband William P. Magee, M.D., a plastic surgeon, founded Operation Smile. Using money raised from bake sales, as…

Marie Clay created Reading Recovery, an early intervention program designed to teach kids reading skills and raise children’s literacy rates.

Peter Samuelson is a successful movie producer and life-long child advocate and the founder of two major children’s organizations.

Rose Washington developed the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice’s “strength-based approach,” changing how at-risk children are treated within the system.

J. TERRANCE DAVIS 2000 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Heart Surgeon United States, Global J. Terrance Davis, M.D., has dedicated much of his life to providing cardiac care to children in need through volunteer efforts in the United States and in developing nations. As a cardiac surgeon in Columbus, Ohio, Davis has provided free heart surgery for children…

T. BERRY BRAZELTON 2002 HEALTH AWARD Brazelton Touchpoints Center United States For more than a half-century, T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., has tirelessly devoted himself to young children and child advocacy. He has treated thousands of pediatric patients, trained and inspired hundreds of pediatric fellows and residents, as well as delivered thousands of lectures on child…

GLENDON P. NIMNICHT 2002 HUMANITARIAN AWARD CINDE United States, Columbia Glendon P. Nimnicht, Ed.D., dedicated more than 39 years of his life to improving the quality of life of children and families living in poverty in the United States, Latin America and other Third World countries. During his career as an educational administrator, Nimnicht became…

HENRI LANDWIRTH 2002 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Give Kids the World United States Henri Landwirth, a Holocaust survivor, was shuttled for five years between Nazi death and labor camps including Auschwitz, Matthausen and Ostrowitz. At the end of WWII, a Nazi soldier marched Landwirth into the woods to be executed and, at the last minute, spared his…

DR. MARTIN EICHELBERGER 2003 HEALTH AWARD Safe Kids United States, Global Martin Eichelberger, M.D., is professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical Center and director of Emergency Trauma and Burn Services at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career, he has contributed extensively to the field of pediatric trauma…

MACKENZIE SNYDER 2004 YOUTH AWARD Children to Children United States At the young age of eight, Mackenzie Snyder was saddened to learn that most of the 530,000 foster care children living in the United States have only a trash bag for their belongings when they move from home to home. She decided to do something…

ALEX SCOTT 2004 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Alex’s Lemonade Stand United States In lieu of selecting a third Honoree for the 2004 Kellogg’s Child Development Award, Kellogg’s Corporate Citizenship Fund donated $10,000 to the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Fund at the Philadelphia Foundation, founded by the late Alexandra Scott, a pediatric cancer patient and her family. Grants from…