2023 HeadCount
Press Release April 19, 2024 Type Media Center is pleased to announce voter registration non-profit HeadCount as the 2023 recipient of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. The Puffin Foundation…
Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship
The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. and The Type Media Center (formerly The Nation Institute) are the mutual sponsors of an annual award in the amount of $100,000 given to an individual who has challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative and socially responsible work of significance. Candidates are to be found in a broad range of occupations and pursuits, including academia, journalism, public health, literature, art, the environmental sciences, labor and the humanities. The prize is intended to encourage the recipients to continue their work, and to inspire others to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies they face in their careers.
The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship was renamed in 2017. It was formerly known as the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
Remembering Victor Navasky
The Puffin Foundation deeply mourns the passing of Victor Navasky. Our collaborations with Victor date back more than 20 years when Puffin jointly began the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship with The Nation Magazine where he was both Editor and Publisher. Our current support of Student Nation and the investigative work of Type Media upon whose Board he sat can be traced back to that first meeting with him. You can read more about Victor here and here. His insights, humor, and brilliance will be missed.
Honorees
Please Save the Date for Type Media Center‘s Annual Celebration on Monday, May 1st. We hope that you will join us at the Museum of the City of New York for what will be our… Type Media Center and The Puffin Foundation are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship is the National Network for Abortion Funds (NNAF). The… Desmond Meade is a formerly homeless returning citizen who overcame many obstacles to eventually become the President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy,… Remarks of Neal RosensteinVice President, The Puffin FoundationThe Puffin Prize for Creative CitizenshipType Media GalaDecember 10, 2019 On behalf of Perry & Gladys Rosenstein & the Puffin Foundation I’d like… The Parkland Student Activists are the winners of the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship in partnership with Type Media Center (formerly the Nation Institute). The Students, in partnership with… Colin Kaepernick receives the 2017 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship) in partnership with Type Media Center. During last year’s NFL pre-season, then-San Francisco… Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the winner of the annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship in partnership with Type Media (fka the… Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, volunteer President of the North Carolina NAACP, is the winner of the 2015 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. The award will be presented to… Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY, received the annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship on Monday, December 8, 2014, at… The Nation Institute and The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. are pleased to award the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, with the… Winner of the 2012 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Prize Recognizes NAACP’s Leadership In Civil and Human Rights Movement; Efforts to “Rebrand” Civil… Winner of the 2011 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Tony Kushner discusses Angels in America at 20, during a Commonwealth Club program… Winners of the 2010 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). 2010 Honorees Cecile Richards and Bill McKibben Cecile Richards serves as president of the… Winner of the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). An advocate for everyday people whose voices are seldom heard in Washington and on Wall… Winner of the 2008 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: 26th March 2015 – Washington, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez… Winner of the 2007 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the… Winner of the 2006 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: by Rachel Banai Amy Goodman is a syndicated columnist, host of the news… Winner of the 2005 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003 photo by BenFrantzDale/ Wikimedia Commons… Winner of the 2004 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Image: Author Barbara Ehrenreich at the Newseum on February 28, 2018. Barbara Ehrenreich is… 2022 Heather Booth
2021 National Network of Abortion Funds
2020 Desmond Meade
2019 The Sunrise Movement
2018 The Parkland Student Activists
2017 Colin Kaepernick
2016 Bryan Stevenson
2015 Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II
2014 Frances Fox Piven
2013 Barry W. Lynn
2012 Benjamin Todd Jealous
2011 Tony Kushner
2010 Bill McKibben & Cecile Richards
2009 Jim Hightower
2008 Van Jones
2007 Michael Ratner
2006 Amy Goodman
2005 Jonathan Kozol
2004 Barbara Ehrenreich
