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Heifer International wins 2004 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
Howard Lake | 22 September 2004 | News
The $1 million prize is this year awarded to the Little Rock, Arkansas-based Heifer International.
Little Rock, Arkansas-based humanitarian agency Heifer International will receive the 2004 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
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Heifer is the first U.S.-based organisation to receive the Hilton Prize since 1997. The prize is open to non-profits around the world.
In announcing the international jury’s selection, Steven Hilton, the foundation’s president, said: “Heifer International’s success proves that it’s often simple ideas that are the best. Providing poor families with cows and other livestock, along with agricultural training, helps people become self-sustaining. Ideas on how to help the poor in our world come and go, but Heifer has produced a model that has endured for 60 years.”
A central feature of Heifer’s approach is ‘Passing on the Gift’ which requires every family who receives Heifer animals to give female offspring to another family in need. That family then does the same, multiplying the impact of Heifer’s programmes until entire communities become self-sustaining.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.