The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced the 2022 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy honorees and a new award for nonprofit organizations.

The 11th cohort of Carnegie Medal recipients includes Manu Chandaria, founder of the Chandaria Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya, and Geneva, Switzerland); Lyda Hill, founder of  the Lyda Hill Philanthropies (Dallas, Texas); Dolly Parton, founder and chair of the Dollywood Foundation (Sevierville, Tennessee); and Lynn Schusterman and Stacy Schusterman, co-founder and chair, respectively, of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Lyda Hill and Lynn Schusterman joined the Giving Pledge in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Established in 2001, the Carnegie Medal celebrates outstanding philanthropic leadership and the values modeled by Andrew Carnegie and is awarded to philanthropists selected from among candidates nominated by 22 Carnegie institutions in the United States and Europe. To date, more than 65 honorees have been awarded the medal. Typically announced biennially, the awards were not made in 2021.

World Central Kitchen (WCK), founded by chef José Andrés, was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Carnegie Catalyst Award, which will help elevate the work of nonprofit organizations that inspire and mobilize people’s desire to help one another in times of crisis. The award—established in honor of former Carnegie president Vartan Gregorian, who died in 2021—was made in recognition of WCK’s work with volunteers serving more than 150 million meals around the world since 2010 and continuing through the current conflict in Ukraine.

“The…honorees have a wide range of important priorities, yet they share a common goal through their determination to have impact and create positive change,” said Thomas H. Kean, Carnegie chair and a former governor of New Jersey. “This year, the Carnegie Catalyst Award will expand on their example....World Central Kitchen is an outstanding model of how humankind can respond in times of dire need by activating the inherent goodness in others—an ideal that was embodied through the life and work of Vartan Gregorian.”

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