Community Change Champion Awards

Change Champion: Frances Fox Piven

Allison — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:20:53 +0000

Professor Frances Fox Piven is a scholar-citizen, equally at home in the university and in the world of politics. Frances is also the recipient of our 2011 Community Change Champion Award for activism.

She collaborated with the late George A. Wiley, the leader of the 1960s welfare rights movement in the…

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Change Champion: Voces de la Frontera

Allison — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:59:58 +0000

Christine Neumann-Ortiz is the founding executive director of Voces de la Frontera in Wisconsin, and a state and national leader in the immigrant rights movement. Through her leadership, Voces has grown from a small, grassroots worker center to a state and national leader in the…

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Change Champion: Quinn Delaney

Allison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:17:39 +0000

As we get closer to our 2011 Change Champion Awards on September 22, we’d like you to meet another of our distinduished Champions.

Quinn Delaney is the the founder and president of the Akonadi Foundation whose mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society.

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Change Champion: George Gresham

Allison — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:12:29 +0000

For today’s featured 2011 Community Change Champion, I’d like you to meet Geroge Gresham, the President of 1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East.

George Gresham was elected 1199SEIU President in April 2007. He is the fifth president in the union’s 75-year history, representing 350,000 healthcare workers throughout…

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Meet OneAmerica: Champion in Organizing

Allison — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:21:03 +0000

Today, we kick off our series featuring the 2011 Community Change Champions by introducing you to Pramila Jayapal, the founder and executive director of OneAmerica. Started in the wake of 9/11, OneAmerica has grown to become the largest immigrant advocacy organization in Washington State and a leading force for immigrant rights nationally.

Under Pramila’s leadership, OneAmerica has organized tens of thousands of diverse immigrants around immigration reform…

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The Community Change Champion Awards has a new online home

admin2011 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:38:43 +0000

Welcome to the first-ever website devoted to the Community Change Champion Awards! Here, you’ll find out the latest news about the event, sign up to attend or see pictures from past events. You can even sign up to be a sponsor! To get started, check out the 2011 honorees!

This outstanding group of individuals and organizations are creating change in low-income communities and communities of color across the country. They are the heroes – often unsugn heroes – out there pounding the pavement, putting clipboards and cell phones in the hands of organizers and ralling people for action. The Center for Community Change and the Campaign for Community Change are proud to honor these Champions on September 22.

Check back on this website each week for the most up-to-date information and breaking news! And we’ll see you on September 22!