The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. and Type Media Center are now accepting nominations for the 2024 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship, a $100,000 award given to an individual or organization that challenges the status quo through courageous, distinctive, and socially responsible work.

Nominations are due by Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

The prize encourages recipients to continue and expand on their work. A strong candidate is someone who has either raised awareness of or significantly influenced major social issues in the past year. We consider candidates from all backgrounds and across various fields. Examples of past nominations we've received have been for individuals and organizations working in the areas of defending and expanding democracy, healthcare access, food justice and food sovereignty, police brutality, voting rights, and more. Candidates must be US citizens.

ABOUT THE PUFFIN PRIZE:
The Puffin Foundation Ltd. and Type Media Center are mutual sponsors of an annual $100,000 award given to an individual who has challenged the status quo through courageous, distinctive, and socially responsible work. The prize is intended to encourage the recipients to continue their work, and inspire others to challenge prevailing orthodoxies.

2023/24's winner, the voter registration group HeadCount, was honored for their commitment to activating young people in civic participation.

Other past winners have included Heather Booth, Desmond Meade, the National Network of Abortion Funds, Colin Kaepernick, Amy Goodman, Bryan Stevenson, the Sunrise Movement, and the Parkland students who founded March for Our Lives.

QUESTIONS?
For more information or if you have any questions, email gala@typemediacenter.org or call 212-822-0263.