Applications Invited for Grinnell College Innovator in Social Justice Prize 2022

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Grinnell were founded in 1846. We’re a private, coed, residential liberal arts and sciences college in Grinnell, Iowa. Around 9,000 people live in our town. About 1,700 students attend the College. They call ourselves Grinnellians. They’re committed to contributing to the common good, and they’re consistently ranked among the nation’s best liberal arts colleges.

Grinnell College Innovator in Social Justice Prize

The Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize — known familiarly as the Grinnell Prize — celebrates and elevates change-makers like these and all the good they do. Standing strong in the face of adversity. Creatively approaching the biggest challenges that confront society today. Bettering the world in a way we recognize as Grinnellian. That’s why we’re proud to honor who they are and the impact they’re making on our world.

The Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize (the Grinnell Prize) honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership in their fields and who show creativity, commitment, and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive social change

Nomination Criteria:

1. Nominees must be nominated by a third party.

2. Nominees may be a single individual or a team of two people who are working together and have a pivotal role in their project’s innovative design and implementation.
Nominees should be forces for equity and social justice. The nominator should be able to demonstrate that the nominees, through their education, co-creative work, and dedication, have played an instrumental role

• identifying a concrete social or environmental justice need;
• designing and implementing an equitable and creative solution related to that need;
• beginning to address the need’s root causes and transform the systems that undergird them; and
• demonstrating a substantive and sustainable community or environmental impact now and in the future.

3. Nominees must consent to their nomination. This consent will be given in the form of a letter that nominators upload in PDF format. (If you are nominating two individuals for collaborative work, nominees should write this letter together.)

4. Nominees should demonstrate practices that are consistent with Grinnell College's education in the liberal arts through serving the common good and demonstrating expertise in the areas of critical thinking; innovative, equitable, and systemic problem solving; and demonstrated change-making.

5. Nominees may be from anywhere in the world.

6. Nominees do not need to be affiliated with Grinnell College.

7. Nominees must have sufficient English fluency to engage with the Grinnell College community.

Selection process:

Nominees selected as semifinalists will be interviewed by student researchers and may be asked to provide more details about their work. Nominees selected as finalists will be contacted by Grinnell Prize staff and asked for additional supplemental information. This information must be provided in English and may include items such as:

• annual reports
• nominee resumes or CVs
• three letters of reference
• photos
• any news articles and videos that tell the story of the work
• organizational and policy documents (IRS 990 forms or audited financial statements)
• Nominees will be notified if they have won in late spring of 2022 and a formal announcement of winners will be released in July.

Prize: Each prize carries an award of $50,000, half to the winning individual(s) and half to their related, nominated organization.

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