Recent News

• Shelley Halstead of Black Women Build – Baltimore in CityBiz
• Ben Christensen and Marisa Repka of Cambium Carbon in Inside Climate News
• Lela Klein and amaha sellassie of Co-op Dayton in Dayton Business Journal 
• Diya Abdo of Every Campus A Refuge in Academic Minute
• Brandon Smith and Sara Sindija of Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program in Citizens Journal 

• Mike Milton of Freedom Community Center in St. Louis American
• Esperanza Dillard and Talila “TL” Lewis of HEARD in The Daily Moth 
• Brittany Koteles of Nuns & Nones in Global Sisters Report
• Daniel Bögre Udell and Kristen Tcherneshoff of Wikitongues in Voice America

New York Nonprofit Media interviewed Executive Director Amy Freitag and 2021 awardee Shelley Halstead of Black Women Build – Baltimore about the promising trends and projects  in this year’s J.M.K. Innovation Prize.

Philanthropy News Digest, a daily news service of Candid, picked up the November announcement of the recipients of the 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize, as well as the Fund’s report on this year’s Prize, Building Pathways to Collective Power.

Coworker.org, a 2015 Innovation Prize awardee, was highlighted in Protocol for organizing tech laborers in their pursuit of better work environments.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy published "Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting," an article written by our Chairman Peter Davidson and Executive Director Amy Freitag. This article illustrates how the J.M.K. Innovation Prize introduced vital new ideas and provided us with a deeper understanding of current philanthropic trends.

Grist featured the work of Michelle Shively at Rural Action, a member of the 2019 Innovation Prize awardee True Pigments, for turning the acidic run-off from Sunday Creek into iron oxide pigments.

Swapna Reddy of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a 2017 Innovation Prize awardee, was profiled by Forbes as part of her Ashoka Fellowship. Read more about her, and the incredible work of ASAP, here.

Rachel Johnson-Farias of Esq. Apprentice was quoted in the New York Times article, "Apprenticeship a Growing Alternative to College (and Debt)."

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project sent their staff to the U.S.-Mexico border to learn about the most recent changes to immigration policy and see the impacts first-hand. Learn more about their experience by listening to this episode of Slate's Amicus podcast and read about lessons learned on their website.