$10,000 Edna Award to outstanding young woman leader deadline July 31st

For the second year in a row, the Berger-Marks Foundation is offering its $10,000 Edna Award to an outstanding young woman leader in the social justice movement.
 The Edna Award will spotlight the contributions to social justice made by women age 35 and younger.  It will honor one woman who has made an extraordinary contribution early in her career – and whose ongoing work will likely improve the lives of working women and men. The top Edna Award will be presented to the winner in a fall ceremony, which also will recognize several runners-up.
 Edna Award nominees are not permitted to nominate themselves.  So it’s up to you or a colleague step up and nominate a young woman who's made a real difference
-- and whose good work has impressed you.

Nominations will be accepted online only through July 31, and will be judged by a panel of well-known leaders who are also women. Find out more on our website at www. bergermarks.org.  Also on our website, you can read about the young woman who won last year’s first-ever $10,000 Edna Award and the three Nominees of Note who were each awarded $1,000.
 To inspire you to nominate a dynamic young woman, I leave you with a quote from one of this year’s judges, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler:

"Major change in our country has always been led by young people. Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 when he led the Montgomery bus boycott. At 25, Cesar Chavez was registering Mexican-Americans to vote. Walter Reuther headed strikes demanding GM recognize its workers’ rights starting when he was 30."

 We look forward to being introduced to today’s promising young women leaders. Thanks for what you can do to help.

In solidarity,
Linda Foley
President, Berger-Marks Foundation