Nominations for Jewish Values Prize

The Charles Bronfman Prize is accepting nominations through August 18 for its 2022 prize.  The $100,000 award is presented each year to an individual or team whose innovative, entrepreneurial, humanitarian work, fueled by Jewish values, has significantly improved the world. 

The prize was founded as a gift to Charles Bronfman on his seventieth birthday by his children and their spouses as a tribute to the values and innovative spirit that have served as a compass throughout his life. The prize celebrates the inspiration and impact of humanitarians under 50 whose endeavors inspire future generations.

The global reach of Bronfman Prize laureates encompasses diverse issues such as criminal justice reform, immigration and refugees, medicine, the environment, education, humanitarian relief, human rights, and the arts, and Bronfman Prize laureates are recognized as leaders and experts in their field. Recent highlights include a USA Today opinion piece on refugees co-authored by Sasha Chanoff, the 2010 Prize recipient and founder and executive director of RefugePoint; a feature cover story on the 2021 recipients, Drs. Jessica Beckerman and Ari Johnson, co-founders of Muso, in Jewish News; an NPR interview with 2010 recipient Jared Genser, founder of Freedom Now, about American detainees in Iran, and his CNN opinion piece on Myanmar; and a profile of the 2019 recipient, Brazilian chef David Hertz, co-founder and president of Gastromotiva, in the Christian Science Monitor.

An international panel of judges will select the recipient (s) of 2022 Bronfman Prize, and the winner(s) will be announced in January 2022.

For more information, see the Charles Bronfman Prize website.