Social Innovator Award
NEWS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
Halifax Assistance Fund Announces Winner of its Harold Crowell Social Innovator Award. Click here to read more.
The Halifax Assistance Fund (HAF) is very pleased to announce that the Winner of its $10,000 Social Innovator Award is Jessie Jollymore for the work she has done with Hope Blooms and other North End Halifax community projects. In addition, the HAF board decided to provide two additional financial awards, these being $5,000 to Deborah Dickey for her work with Dartmouth North Community Food Centre and $2,500 to Melissa Phillips for her “housing first” work with Shelter Nova Scotia.
The HAF is also pleased to announce that the Social Innovator Award has been named in honour of Harold Crowell, who is a Director Emeritus of the HAF. Harold is a longstanding and cherished community member who is well known for his unrelenting commitment to creatively invest limited funds in order to foster much larger opportunities. For more information on Harold and his long history of contributions to his community see this summary. Click here.
Social Innovator Award Nominees and Halifax Assistance Fund Board Members
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The Halifax Assistance Fund’s 2017 Social Innovator Award – List of Nominees & Finalists
The Halifax Assistance Fund’s 2017 Social Innovator Award – List of Nominees & Finalists
| Finalists | |
| Ann Denny & Ryan Veltmeyer | Youth Art Connection |
| Deborah Dickey | Dartmouth North Community Food Kitchen |
| Jessie Jollymore | Hope Blooms |
| Luke MacDonald | Fit It Forward |
| Melissa Phillips | Shelter Nova Scotia |
| Bonnie Ste-Croix | EchoHub |
| Nominees | |
| Don Adams, Lequita Porter, William Porter | East Preston Empowerment Academy |
| Troy Allen, Lynn MacDonald, Randy Tully | North End Opportunities Fund |
| Susan Atkinson, Linda Chow, Emma Rose | Halifax Sexual Health Centre |
| Laurie Cook | Inclusion Works |
| Rosalind Curran | St. George's YouthNet |
| Deanna Currie | Gerald Hardy Memorial Society |
| Carol Charlebois, David McDow (& late Bryon Anderson) |
Shining Lights Choir |
| Harold Crowell | MetroWorks Employment Assoc. |
| Tamar Dina | Music Liberatory |
| Kendrick Douglas, David Graham | MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning |
| Alice Evans | Club Inclusion |
| Margaret Fraser | Boys & Girls Club of Preston |
| Linda Grandy, Wanda Taylor | Stepping Stone Association |
| Glenda Haydon | Avalon Sexual Assault Centre |
| Paul Holmes | Grace Street Mission |
| Marcus James | Halifax Public Libraries |
| Julia Kemp | Mobile Food Market |
| Meghan Laing | Halifax Connects |
| Ashley Linden, Derico Symonds | Future Roots |
| Wendy MacGregor | YWCA-ACWEE |
| Ralph Mackenzie | Dartmouth North Community Van |
| Melissa Marr, Heather Wilkinson | Wonder'neath Art Society |
| Janvier Nahimana | MUTCHO |
| Stephen Nelson, Rodney Small, Lindell Smith | The O.N.E. |
| Darrel Pink | Living on the Edge |
| Agar Smith | Brunswick St Mission |
| Linda Wilson | Homebridge Youth Society |