The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced the winnersof the 2009 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The Center for Court Innovation, a New York-based nonprofit think tank thathelps courts and criminal justice agencies aid victims, reduce crime and improvepublic trust in the justice system, is the recipient of the $100,000 first-placeprize-an award made possible in large part through the generosity of TheCoca-Cola Foundation. Founded as a public-private partnership between the New York State Unified CourtSystem and the Fund for the City of New York, the Center serves as the court`sindependent research and development arm, creating demonstration projects thattest new ideas. The Center`s projects include community courts, drug courts,reentry courts, domestic violence courts and mental-health courts.
This year`s second-place winner (to receive $7,500) is Urban Farming, aDetroit-based organization that plants gardens on unused land and in otherspaces (such as rooftops and "edible walls" on building exteriors) to growproduce for people in the inner-city who are food insecure. The organization`sfenceless gardens allow people to pick food for free at any time, day or night,without compromising their dignity. The third-place winner (to receive $5,000)is the Population Media Center in Shelburne, Vt. It uses serialized melodramas(such as prime-time soap operas), written and produced in the local languages ofparticipating countries, to impart lessons about family planning, avoidance ofAIDS, the elevation of the status of women and the prevention of childexploitation.
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