Foundation offers $1 million prize to non-profit humanitarian organisation
Howard Lake | 1 August 2004 | News
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2005 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize which, at $1 million, is the world’s largest humanitarian award.
The $1 million prize is presented annually to an established non-profit, charitable or non-governmental organisation. The prize is not a grant, or based on future goals, but an award for recent and historic accomplishments.
The prize winner will be an organisation that has, in the eyes of an independent international panel of jurors, made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world.
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The 2004 award will be presented this Autumn, with the 2005 prize being announced in Autumn 2005.
The prize is given to organisations and not individuals, and the organisation has to have been legally established for at least five years. Although the Foundation is based in the USA, the prize is open to non-profit groups around the world.
The most recent UK charity to win the prize was St. Christopher’s Hospice in 2001.
Nominations for the 2005 prize must be received or postmarked by 1 November 2004. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Hilton Foundation Web site. Paid staff and officers are not permitted to nominate their organisation, but presumably non-trustee volunteers are.
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