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Community
Building
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Quality
Education for All
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Environmental
Stewardship
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Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion
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Health and
Healing
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Hunger and
Poverty
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Rising Stars
(leaders, under 25, making a difference in their
communities)
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PIR
President & CEO Jon Nevett |
The .ORG of
the Year will receive a donation of $35,000
for an eligible charitable entity of its
choice, while the other award winners will
receive donations of $10,000 each.
PIR President
and CEO Jon Nevett said, “We are
honored to celebrate the deeply impactful champions
for change who have won a 2022 .ORG
Impact Award. These inspiring organizations
and individuals work incredibly hard to put
their mission first, improving the lives of
so many, and bringing meaningful change to
communities across the globe. We are
thrilled to uplift their tireless efforts
and to celebrate their dedication to making
the world a better place. Each
organization is an emblem for what .ORG
stands for, and we are humbled by the work
of all the .ORGs that submitted for the
awards, were named finalists, or are winning
an award today. Congratulations, and thank
you for being the best of our .ORG
Community.” |
...and the winners are:
.ORG
of the Year – Food
Rescue Hero Donation Amount: $35,000
Purposefully
designed to automate the time consuming and variable
coordination of food recovery, Food Rescue
Hero enables scalable impact on food waste, food
insecurity, and climate change. Since 2016, the Food
Rescue Hero network of 14 partners in the US and
Canada, and a growing community of 34,000
volunteer drivers, have diverted 100 million
pounds of perfectly good food from landfill and
mitigated 54.3 million pounds of CO2 emissions. With
Food Rescue Hero, coordination between food donors,
non-profit partners and volunteer drivers is
reliable, timely and transparent, and yields greater
food waste prevention and shrink real time data
transparency and greater overall impact. Food Rescue
Hero is also the winner of the 2022 .ORG Impact
Award for Hunger and Poverty.
Community
Building – Kageno
Worldwide Donation Amount: $10,000
Kageno
Worldwide’s mission is to transform impoverished
communities into places of hope and opportunity.
They believe there is no single solution for
communities living in poverty, but that there must
be change across multiple sectors, to effectively
transform an impoverished community. This is why
Kageno works with community leaders to develop
programs in four key areas of Education, Healthcare,
Income Generation, and Conservation. Their programs
operating in Africa address the diversified needs of
each community. Kageno is a big picture non-profit,
with boots on the ground able to provide the
infrastructure, resources, and knowledge needed to
develop education initiatives, stronger
infrastructures for community health, diversified
economies, and a healthier environment.
Quality
Education for All
– Hello
World Donation Amount: $10,000
Hello
World's paradigm-busting solution to the education
deficit tackles the twin injustices of lack of
educational resources in remote and last-mile
communities and the digital divide. Hello World is
helping solve the lack of global education by
working with the most marginalized communities to
build state-of-the-art, Solar Powered Internet Hubs
and bridge the digital divide. Each “Hello Hub”
provides free internet access and world-class
educational software to over 1,000 people,
giving children and adults an education and a voice
in the global community. Hello Hubs are built by the
community for the community across Uganda and Nepal.
Each one provides everything needed to get online
and further education.
Environmental
Stewardship – TIP
Sessions Donation Amount: $10,000
TIP
Sessions focuses on a combination of
gender-sensitive response
to climate change, and technological intervention
with lingual and regional context to achieve climate
and gender justice. They achieve this through a
three-pronged approach of community-led climate
action, culture for climate programs and economic
empowerment of rural women. Their programs are
action-driven and give local
communities—particularly, women and youth—the
platform and voice to impact their world.
Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion – Pro
Mujer Donation Amount: $10,000
Pro
Mujer has been working to advance gender equality
in Latin America for over 32 years. It provides
underserved women with financial inclusion, skilling
opportunities and health services in order for them
to reach their full potential, become agents of
change and improve their living conditions.
Health
and Healing – Limbitless
Solutions Donation Amount: $10,000
Limbitless
Solutions Inc. (LSI) is a University of Central
Florida-based, non-profit dedicated to
empowering individuals by creating access for
children—and soon adult first responders and
veterans—to personalized, high-functioning and
expressive prosthetic arms without financial
burden, using technology and interdisciplinary
efforts to address accessibility issues to increase
access and inclusion. They work to empower
confidence and increase accessibility in the limb
difference community through art-infused bionics and
combine engineering and art to promote access and
engagement in STEAM (science, technology,
engineering, art, and math) education for a more
inclusive future.
Hunger
and Poverty – Food
Rescue Hero Donation Amount: $10,000
In
addition to receiving the awards for .ORG of the
Year, Food Rescue Hero is also the winner in the
Hunger and Poverty category. Food Rescue Hero
is able to use their highly functional app to reduce
waste and deliver food to hungry people in 16 cities
involved in their network. They have recovered over
122 million pounds of food, equating to nearly 100
million meals. This also means 66.2 million
pounds of carbon emissions have been mitigated
through their work.
Rising
Star – Mathias Charles Yabe, AkoFresh
Donation Amount: $10,000
AkoFresh
is a green Agritech organization that is offering sustainable
agricultural services leveraging climate smart
solutions for improved food security and ensuring
ecosystem resilience in local communities. The
innovation for AkoFresh is a mobile solar powered
cold storage preservation technology that
extends shelf life of perishable crops from
the usual 5-day period to 21 days to reduce
post-harvest losses and ensure improved livelihood
of smallholder farmers. Projects implemented by
AkoFresh prioritize the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions especially from food waste, conserving
environmental resources, alleviating poverty in
small-holders' farming communities by boosting the
local economy, and creating decent employment
opportunities for women and the youth.
Congratulations
to the award winners and a thank you for all that
you do!
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