Recognition
Year Up has been the recipient of awards:
- Philanthropedia Top 17 National Nonprofits (September 2010)
- Corporate Voices for Working Families Nonprofit Partner of the Year Award (2009)
- International Ashoka Fellowship (2008)
- Fast Company and Monitor Group's "Social Capitalist" Award (January 2005, January 2007)
- The Freedom House Archie R. Williams, Jr. Technology Award (May 2005)
- The Commonwealth Corporation's Excellence in Partnership Awards: Dr. Stanley Z. Koplik Commitment to Learning Award (June 2004)
- The Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneurship Award (Fall 2003)
- In 2008, Year Up was selected as the target non-profit of Doing IT for Good, a corporate philanthropy program created by venture capital firm Landmark Ventures, that holds annual networking events.
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Famous quotes containing the word recognition:
“That the world can be improved and yet must be celebrated as it is are contradictions. The beginning of maturity may be the recognition that both are true.”
—William Stott (b. 1940)
“By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone’s attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the ‘70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)