2006 Stand on a Better World Awards

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Founder of Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, providing children with education, housing, food, medical care and loving support.

WINNER

Dana Dakin

Founder of WomensTrust, a microlending program for women and girls in Ghana.

WINNER

Ritu Primlani

Launched the Thimmakka Certified Green Restaurants program, a "green-certified" program for ethnic restaurant owners.

FINALISTS

Jenny Bowen Debora Sponsel-Jolley Meghan Parischa Jill Sheffield Amy Jaffe Barzach

View Highlights from the Ceremony

Grand Prize Award: $25,000

Two Category Awards: $10,000 each

Each award recipient was the focus of an extensive PR campaign and featured in Mannington's 2007 Product Catalogs.

A Trip to Remember
Each winner and finalist, plus a guest was invited to Philadelphia for an awards dinner in November and enjoyed a well-deserved weekend on the town!

The esteemed judges presiding over the 2006 Stand on a Better World Awards included:

Dorothy Hamill
Christine Todd Whitman
Deborah Bell