Celebrating 20 Years of the Conrad N. Hilton

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF www.hiltonfoundation.org www.hiltonfoundation.org THE CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE “

Our fellow men deserve to be loved and encouraged, never to be abandoned to“ wander alone

in poverty and darkness

From the Last Will and Testament of Conrad Nicholson Hilton Improving the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a family foundation focused on serving those in greatest need. Conrad Hilton, the international business entrepreneur who founded Hilton Hotels Corporation, left the bulk of his fortune to the Foundation with a mandate to relieve the suffering of the distressed and destitute without regard to race, religion, or country. Through strategic initiatives and programs, the Hilton Foundation touches lives across the United States and around the globe. We work with leading nonprofit organizations—and in partnership with governments, foundations, corporations, and philanthropists—to solve social problems. We conduct strategic initiatives in six priority areas: increasing access to safe water, ending chronic homelessness, substance use prevention, helping children affected by HIV and AIDS, supporting older youth in foster care, and building a global Catholic sisterhood. In addition, we make grants in areas including avoidable blindness, multiple sclerosis, Catholic education, disaster relief and recovery, and building career pathways for youth in the hospitality sector.

Steven M. Hilton Chairman, President & CEO The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize

The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize is the world’s largest humanitarian award at $2 million. Established in 1996, it is given to an organization, anywhere in the world, judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering—often operating at great risk, hardship or personal sacrifice. The Prize is not only intended to recognize and advance the efforts of the recipient organization, but also to call attention to the worldwide need for humanitarian aid and to encourage others to expand their support.

To select the recipient, a distinguished international jury will consider:

An established record of alleviating suffering

Historic achievement and recent performance

Innovative program implementation

Organizational capacity and administrative efficiency

Most importantly, long-term impact JURORS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY SERVED

Hilton Humanitarian Prize SUSANNA AGNELLI Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy

Jurors CATHERINE A. BERTINI Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University Former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme

PRINCESS SALIMAH AGA KHAN FRANCIS M. DENG, Ph.D., J.S.D. Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons International Ambassador for SOS-Kinderdorf International Former Ambassador from Sudan

GREGORY R. DILLON GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND, M.P.H. Director, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Former Director-General, World Health Organization WILLIAM H. FOEGE, M.D., M.P.H. Former Prime Minister of Norway Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chairman Emeritus, Global Health Council

ERIC M. HILTON JAMES R. GALBRAITH Director, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; son of the late Conrad N. Hilton Director, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation C. EVERETT KOOP, M.D., Sc.D. Former Surgeon General of the United States, 1981-1989 HAWLEY HILTON McAULIFFE OLARA A. OTUNNU Director, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation President, LBL Foundation for Children, Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

STRIVE MASIYIWA H. E. ANAND PANYARACHUN Former Prime Minister of Thailand Founder and Executive Chairman, Econet Wireless MARGARITA PEÑÓN Co-founder with wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Higher Life Foundation Former Chair of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica

ROBERT A. SEIPLE PROFESSOR AMARTYA SEN Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, U.S. State Department Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Former President, World Vision, Inc.

Lamont University Professor at Harvard University LIV ULLMANN Former UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Co-founder, Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children ANN VENEMAN H. E. RICHARD VON WEIZSÄCKER Former Executive Director, UNICEF Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany

PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Hilton Humanitarian Prize Keynote Speakers

©George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; Each year the $1.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize is presented at a dinner Chandler Arden, photographer ceremony focusing on the world’s humanitarian challenges. This annual event features presentations by world leaders, including heads of state, United Nations dignitaries and Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Speeches from Hilton Humanitarian Prize recipients and keynote speakers are permanently archived on the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation website.

1996 UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata

1997 Former United States President, Jimmy Carter

1998 Former United States President, George H. W. Bush

1999 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson

2000 Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

2001 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

2002 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Costa Rica, Dr. Oscar Arias

2003 His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2004 Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Lee Jong-wook

2005 Founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, Paul Rusesabagina

2006 Former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel

2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

2008 Music industry legend and humanitarian, Quincy Jones

2009 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus

2010 World-renowned epidemiologist, Dr. William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H.

2011 Executive Director UN Women, Michelle Bachelet

2012 World Bank President Robert Zoellick

2013 Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta

2014 UNDP Administrator and Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark THE 2015 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

©Deborah Espinosa, Landesa Landesa

Law Professor Roy Prosterman didn’t realize that reading one law review article in 1966 that raised land confiscation as an acceptable tool for rural development in Latin America, would ultimately lead him to found one of the largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to ensuring secure land rights for disempowered rural women and men all over the world. In his response to the article, Prosterman proposed democratic and market-friendly land reform instead. Intrigued, U.S. government officials asked him to test out his ideas in Vietnam in the middle of the war. From 1970-1973, his program gave land rights to one million tenant farmers, and garnered recognition in The ©Deborah Espinosa, Landesa New York Times as “probably the most ambitious and progressive non-Communist land reform of the 20th Century.” Today, 45 years after Prosterman stood in the rice fields of Vietnam, Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute) has helped an estimated 115 million families gain secure land rights in more than 50 countries. Landesa is approached by foreign governments, foreign aid agencies and NGOs alike to help strengthen land rights to promote economic prosperity and build a better world for this and future generations. Landesa’s ability to partner with governments and navigate each country’s particular political institutions, history and culture has been key to its success. In former Soviet-bloc countries, it assisted governments with state farm reorganization and land privatization, resulting in an estimated 17.8 million Russian families and 3.5 million Ukranian families gaining secure legal rights to land. Over the course of its 30-year partnership with the Chinese ©Deborah Espinosa, Landesa government, historic legal changes guaranteeing all farmers 30-year land rights have resulted in an estimated 85 million families having secure land tenure to 162 million acres. In India and six African countries, Landesa has partnered to strengthen land rights for more than a million women and men and their families. A majority of the world’s poorest live in rural areas and depend on the land to survive. Securing land rights for the world’s small farmers is critical.

www.landesa.org

©Deborah Espinosa, Landesa THE 2014 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Fountain House/Clubhouse International

In the early 1940s, seven patients, a hospital psychiatrist and a psychiatric aide formed a self-help group within a New York state hospital, preparing for the challenges when the de-institutionalization movement would discharge them. They continued meeting on the “outside,” and in 1948 Fountain House was established as a clubhouse model by and for people living with severe mental illness. Clubhouse International was formed in 1994. Today, Fountain House/Clubhouse International directly impacts more than 100,000 people through more than 340 clubhouses in 32 countries. When you include family members, the numbers grow into millions. Mental illness is a global health catastrophe. In virtually every nation, support for mental disorders lags behind physical disabilities and all other major health and social issues. People with mental illness are stigmatized, ostracized and often abused. The World Health Organization estimates that about 450 million people worldwide suffer from mental and behavioral disorders; there are similar rates in all societies. The Fountain House model is based on the belief that its members are partners in their own recovery, rather than passive recipients of treatment, and that meaningful work and a sense of community are integral to mental health. Its pioneering concept of the “work-ordered day,” involves all clubhouse members in the running of their own organization. Its transitional employment initiative is supported by nearly 1,400 workplaces in the United States alone, where clubhouse members earn salaries and are trained to work side by side with mainstream workers, helping to erase the stigma that occurs when the mentally ill are isolated from general society. Studies have confirmed the effectiveness of the Fountain House/Clubhouse International model. Ten Clubhouse International Training Bases are located in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. This worldwide community is changing the world of mental health.

www.fountainhouse.org

www.clubhouse-intl.org THE 2013 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

ECPAT International

Started more than 20 years ago as a campaign against child sex tourism in Asia, ECPAT International has grown into the leading global network exclusively dedicated to ending child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It serves as the Secretariat overseeing 84 members that include 1,450 individual organizations in 74 countries. ECPAT has been the primary force organizing three World Congresses and monitoring countries’ Action Plans to stop the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The statistics are grim. The International Labour Organization estimates that up to 1.8 million children are exploited in the commercial sex industry or pornography worldwide. The manner in which children are sexu- ally exploited is evolving through the growth of international travel and tourism, the ever-expanding use of new information and communication technologies, and the impact of poverty, inequality and natural disasters on children’s vulnerabilities. The growing complexity of the industry only drives ECPAT to work harder. In recent years, ECPAT has expanded its advocacy and awareness campaigns, and in 2011 presented more than seven million Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People campaign petitions to the UN Human Rights Council. Conducted in partnership with The Body Shop, STOP is the largest human rights petition on a single issue ever presented to © EPCAT International the United Nations. ECPAT developed The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. It is considered as an efficient industry tool to combat the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism and includes private sector members from 40+ countries working in the hospitality, tourism and technology fields. From its global advocacy to capacity building, education and youth empowerment, ECPAT has been leading the world on a path to end the horrific abuses of child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking.

www.ecpat.net THE 2012 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Five organizations in Canada, Colombia, Kenya, India and the United Kingdom set up HelpAge International in 1983 to provide a strong network to support older people worldwide. Today, this global network encompasses more than 100 HelpAge Affiliates operating in more than 60 countries, and more than 3,000 independent partner groups and older people’s organizations. © Kate Holt HelpAge International has been the only global movement for the rights of older people, empowering them to claim their rights to health care, social services and economic security. In 2011 HelpAge assisted two million older people to claim their first pension payment, or receive an increased sum. Both an advocacy and development organization, HelpAge’s focus ranges from campaigning, research and policy work supporting pensions, emergency assistance and livelihoods, to providing funds for grassroots activities. In 2002, HelpAge International helped to shape the UN Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging, committing governments to include aging in all social and economic development policies. By 2050, the United Nations estimates there will be two billion people over age 60—one in five, compared to one in 10 today—with the proportion of older women growing most quickly. Of the nearly 190 million older people who live in poverty—more than 100 million live on less than $1 a day. HelpAge has shown that older people are their own best advocates, and contrary to conventional thinking © Chris Leslie which characterizes older people as economically unproductive, dependent and passive, its research and experience has demonstrated the opposite. Older people make valuable contributions to society as caregivers, advisors, mentors, mediators and breadwinners. HelpAge encourages governments and communities to capitalize on the strengths of older people as the world prepares for this monumental demographic shift which will soon impact every country.

www.helpage.org THE 2011 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

In 1982, two idealistic young doctors were shocked by the plight of thousands of severely wounded landmine victims living unaided at the Thai-Cambodian border among tens of thousands of refugees. This dire experience motivated Jean-Baptiste Richardier and Claude Simonnot and their wives, Marie and Marie-Eve, to create Handicap International to provide physical rehabilitation to victims left permanently injured by war. © Molly Feltner/ Handicap International Thirty-two years later, with about 3,000 staff working in 59 countries, Handicap International is now the largest international NGO of its kind. It specializes in assisting people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, including individuals disabled by disease, injury, natural disasters, poverty or armed conflict, by providing a range of services, from clearing landmines to providing artificial limbs, psychological and economic support, and training of local staff. The World Health Organization estimates that one billion people (around 15 percent of the world’s population) live with disabilities. Handicap International has a long history of advocacy, having co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which led to the adoption of the Mine Ban Treaty and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. The organization is a leading advocate for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which became international law in 2008, and it continues to play a major role in its monitoring © Till Mayer/Handicap International and implementation. The Handicap International Federation, formed in 2010, is comprised of eight national associations in Europe and North America.

www.handicap-international.org

Aravind Eye Care System

In 1976, Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (known to all as Dr. V) opened an 11-bed eye clinic in a rented house in Madurai, India, with the mission to eliminate needless blindness. Of the world’s 39 million blind people, 12 million are in India, where the main cause of blindness is cataracts, which are almost always curable, and yet the poor often cannot afford the surgeries. To respond to this enormous challenge, Dr. V pioneered a new health care model that combines high quality and high volume along with low cost. Aravind’s unique assembly-line approach increases productivity tenfold, and a full range of eye care services are offered, from general ophthalmology and cataracts to corneal transplants, diabetic retinopathy and other retinal disorders. Aravind operates a growing network of ten hospitals in South India where more than 370,000 eye surgeries a year are performed, making it the largest eye care provider in the world. Since its inception, Aravind has handled more than 41 million outpatient visits and performed more than 5.2 million surgeries— with about 60% provided free or subsidized to the poor. Revenue from paying clients makes the organization self-sustainable. In addition, Aurolab, Aravind’s manufacturing arm, produces affordable intraocular lenses, ophthalmic sutures and pharmaceuticals, meeting more than 10% of developing countries’ needs. Aravind also promotes the principles behind the Aravind model to the developing world, where 302 eye hospitals in 28 countries have received consultancy services in eye care management and nearly 8,000 eye care personnel from 97 countries have undergone clinical and management training at Aravind.

www.aravind.org THE 2009 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

©PATH/ Patrick McKern PATH

In 1977, three health researchers in Seattle, Washington, used $92,000 in seed money to develop new contraceptive technologies that would increase access to family planning in Southeast Asia. The organization they founded became PATH, an international health organization now known as the leading innovator in global health. PATH drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women ©WHO and children. PATH accelerates innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—with a focus on child survival, maternal and reproductive health, and infectious diseases. PATH advances health equity in the belief that no child should die of a preventable disease, all mothers should have safe births and healthy newborns, and every community should have the tools it needs to thrive. In 2013, PATH and its partners touched the lives of nearly 219 million people with innovations that include vaccines to prevent meningitis A, diarrheal disease, and Japanese encephalitis; a new source of the gold-standard malaria treatment; new barrier contraceptives that expand family planning options for women; and strategies to ©UNICEF/NYHQ2002-0263/PirozziTH strengthen health systems and expand access to affordable health solutions. PATH has designed, developed, and adapted more than 100 technologies, from an autodisable injection system that catalyzed a global policy shift in safe injection, to vaccine vial monitors that have been applied to more than 5 billion vaccine vials to alert health workers when a vaccine has been damaged by heat. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, PATH has 1,300 employees and offices in more than 20 countries. By mobilizing partners around the world, PATH takes innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, they deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. www.path.org

©PATH/ GabeBienczycki THE 2008 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

BRAC

When the war of independence for Bangladesh ended in 1972, the country’s economy was in ruins. Fazle Hasan Abed, a senior corporate executive, used his own funds to launch a relief effort called BRAC (formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). The country’s extreme poverty soon shifted his focus to long-term development and empowerment of the poor. Today, BRAC is considered the largest anti-poverty group in the world, reaching an estimated 135 million people in 12 countries, addressing poverty through multifaceted solutions enacted simultaneously. BRAC focuses the majority of its activities on poor rural women, recognizing them as change agents for their families and communities. Using microfinance as its core component, BRAC set up small village organizations run by women, provided skills training and eventually created commercial enterprises to provide inputs or markets for the goods its beneficiaries produced. The result to date is $11 billion in loans so far, with 4.5 million current borrowers, millions of jobs created, and BRAC enterprises that produce enough revenue to fund 70-80% of BRAC’s work in Bangladesh. Life-saving health programs delivered by 114,000 trained volunteers have provided more than 120 million people with basic health services and have significantly reduced Bangladesh’s maternal and infant mortality rates. BRAC’s 44,000 primary and pre-primary schools have graduated more than 10.2 million children who transitioned into government secondary schools. Forging a new South-to-South development model, BRAC has expanded beyond Bangladesh into other Asian and African countries and is today blazing a trail for development organizations around the world.

www.brac.net THE 2007 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Tostan

In 1991, Tostan (which means “breakthrough” in the Wolof language) was established by founder Molly Melching. Tostan’s three-year Community Empowerment Program is human rights-based and holistic in its approach. It focuses on the priorities of community life, while teaching hygiene and health, democracy, literacy, numeracy, problem-solving and project management skills. In order to maximize impact, program participants use a coordinated outreach approach to spread their new knowledge to interconnected groups across their social network, where it becomes the catalyst for positive change. The program has seen community-led successes across five key development areas—governance, education, health, the environment and economic growth—and has led to dramatic changes such as the reduction of domestic violence and the empowerment of women and girls. It has also contributed to the abandonment of harmful practices, with over 7,000 communities in West and East Africa having publicly declared their abandonment of female genital cutting and child/forced marriage. Currently implemented in six countries, and in 22 languages, Tostan’s nonformal educational model has been recognized for its ability to bring about social change, empowering African communities to transform their own lives.

www.tostan.org THE 2006 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Women for Women International

A century ago, 90% of war casualties were male soldiers. Today, 90% of war casualties are civilians, and of those, 75% are women and children. This has not happened by accident. Women are targets in many of today’s conflicts. Rape, mutilation, and torture—these are the weapons of choice. Women for Women International was founded in 1993 by Zainab Salbi in response to the suffering of women who had survived rape camps and ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War. It later expanded to other conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Rwanda. Its mission is to help women in these war-ravaged areas move from victim to survivor, from crisis to hope, and from poverty to self-sufficiency. Women for Women International has brought together a global network of contributors to inspire, support, and share this transformational journey through sponsorship. Through a one-year program, women survivors are provided with vocational and business skills training, access to capital, and leadership and rights education. Women for Women International has helped over 407,000 women transform their lives and move beyond their personal tragedies to become social entrepreneurs and active citizens in their communities. The organization has distributed more than $114 million in support of these women and benefited over two million family and community members. In 2013, more than 63,000 women in eight countries participated in its program, with support from more than 27,000 sponsors from 91 countries.

www.womenforwomen.org THE 2005 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Partners In Health

The founders of Partners In Health had no idea they were launching the beginning of a global health movement when they began working in an impoverished squatter settlement in Haiti in the 1980s. They simply believed that the benefits of modern medical science should also be available for the poor; it was a social justice issue. From the start, Partners In Health treated not just disease, but also the conditions of poverty that cause disease. Health was a human right. Clean water, housing, food and education were as important as free medicines. Where no health infrastructure existed, Partners In Health worked with local governments to build one. Community members were trained as health workers so that they could help treat their neighbors. This Haitian health care delivery system was embraced by the international health community as a groundbreaking model for treating complex diseases like HIV/AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The model has been replicated in the slums of Peru, the civilian and prison populations of Russia, villages of three of Africa’s poorest countries, and with inner-city poor in the United States. And it has come full circle: Haitian medical personnel are now working and training local colleagues in Rwanda, Malawi and Lesotho. Partners In Health’s success has helped prove that allegedly “untreatable” health problems can be addressed effectively, even in areas where few health systems exist. Partners In Health’s community-based approach to health care and socioeconomic support is now breaking the cycle of poverty and disease in eight countries.

www.pih.org

©Jon Lascher THE 2004 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Heifer International

It started with a cow. Dan West, an Indiana farmer, was a volunteer relief worker handing out meager cups of milk to orphans and other victims of the Spanish Civil War. Moved by their plight, he decided these people should have “not a cup, but a cow” so they could produce their own milk and not have to depend on temporary aid. From that simple idea, Heifer International was born. In 1944, the first cows sent abroad were donated by West’s neighbors and were distributed throughout Europe following World War II. Seventy years later, Heifer has expanded its mission, just as it expanded to 30 types of animals it now provides—from goats, geese and guinea pigs to bees, silkworms and water buffalo. Its mission is to end hunger and poverty, while caring for the Earth through training in environmentally sound agricultural practices. Heifer has partnered with more than 20 million families in 125 countries around the world to improve their quality of life. A cornerstone of Heifer’s model is “Passing on the Gift,” which requires each recipient family to provide offspring of their animals to another family in need—this family then does the same—on and on, until an entire community is able to lift itself out of poverty. Lasting self-reliance for families and sustainability for the environment are the end results. From Appalachia to Zambia, millions of hungry and impoverished families have been directly affected by Heifer’s work. Through Passing on the Gift, it truly becomes the gift that keeps on giving.

www.heifer.org THE 2003 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

Torture is a sophisticated but cruel form of social and political control designed to stifle dissent through terror. Prior to the 1970s, little was known about torture methods or the physical or psychosocial consequences for its victims. The first medical group to begin diagnosing torture victims was established in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1974, and doctors from 34 countries soon joined. In 1982, the first rehabilitation center for torture victims was opened in Copenhagen to research and document torture techniques and to identify methods to treat torture survivors. By 1985, this organization evolved into the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), which now works in three mutually reinforcing areas: offering rehabilitation services to torture survivors; countering impunity for perpetrators and promoting justice for survivors; and raising awareness among policymakers and citizens. Today, the IRCT comprises a membership of nearly 150 treatment and rehabilitation centers for torture survivors, covering more than 70 countries across six continents. Every year, these centers and programs provide more than 105,000 torture survivors and their families with multidisciplinary support, including medical and psychological care and legal aid, enabling them to resume as full a life as possible. As a voice for torture victims worldwide, the IRCT continues to call on the global community to accept its shared responsibility to assist victims of torture, bring perpetrators to justice, and eradicate all forms of torture.

www.irct.org THE 2002 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

SOS Children’s Villages International (SOS-Kinderdorf International)

SOS Children’s Villages was founded in Austria in 1949 in response to the needs of children in the aftermath of World War II. Its vision, unique in its simplicity, was that every child deserves a family—a mother, brothers and sisters, a home. As the emotional center of the family, mothers receive extensive training in child development and are supported by education specialists and other professionals. Biological siblings are never separated, and family ties are built to last a lifetime. Now the largest nonprofit in the world dedicated to children who have either lost their parents, or cannot grow up with their biological families, SOS has created more than 500 Children’s Villages and more than 350 youth facilities in 134 countries, and today raises more than 80,000 children. This social development organization operates hundreds of educational and medical facilities, including kindergartens, elementary schools, vocational training centers and medical clinics. Through Family Strengthening Programs, SOS helps families in need beyond its villages. More than one million people each year benefit from SOS Children’s Villages programs. SOS Children’s Villages is an international advocate for the human rights of children throughout the world. SOS works in the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and was a lead organization in developing the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.

www.SOS-USA.org THE 2001 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

The modern worldwide hospice movement began at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London—the inspiration of Dame Cicely Saunders, who became a doctor to fulfill her lifetime mission to change existing medical and social attitudes about care of the dying. Her groundbreaking work in pain management for the dying proved that pain could be prevented, not just managed, and this became a cornerstone of hospice care. Today, St. Christopher’s Hospice serves a diverse population of 1.5 million people in five London

© St Christopher’s Hospice, London boroughs, reaching some of England’s most deprived areas. The organization’s care services are delivered in a range of settings, including patients’ own homes, four inpatient wards, a day unit, care homes and even in St. Christopher’s gardens. St. Christopher’s model of compassionate palliative care, providing emotional, spiritual and social support, along with expert nursing and medical care, has elevated and transformed the lives of the terminally ill and their families. The needs of both patients and those close to them are addressed as a “unit of care.” Founded in 1967, the pioneering work of St. Christopher’s has combined clinical care with scientific research, education and training, inspiring hospice initiatives in more than 120 countries. One of the largest providers of palliative care education in the world, more than 100,000 health professionals have studied at St.

www.stchristophers.org.uk

Casa Alianza

Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of Covenant House, the largest private agency in the Americas serving the first casualties of poverty, war, natural disaster, political repression, family and community disintegration: children. Founded in 1981 in an uncompromising environment of violent conflict and intolerable human rights abuses rampant in Latin America in the early 1980s, Casa Alianza has grown from a refuge for displaced children into an international organization working untiringly for the millions of homeless children forced into life on the streets. Casa Alianza’s services to street children are based on five core principles: immediacy, sanctuary, values, structure and choice. It offers street children shelter, food, medical care, protection, guidance, respect and love. The organization began as a place where forgotten children could escape from loneliness, hunger, drugs, poverty, prostitution, emotional starvation and physical danger. Thirty-three years later, often risking their own personal safety, Casa Alianza staff challenge those who prey on children and serve as advocates before governments and judicial authorities on behalf of these most exploited and demonized children of the streets. Casa Alianza’s work directly touches the lives of more than 5,000 children each year in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua, providing them with the first safe place they may have ever known.

www.covenanthouse.org THE 1999 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE Amref Health Africa

Amref Health Africa (formerly known as the African Medical and Research Foundation) is the largest international non-governmental health organization run for and by Africans—its staff is 97% African, and more than 90% live in the communities where they work. © AMREF Since its founding in 1957 as The Flying Doctors of East Africa, Amref Health Africa has grown into a multifaceted health care organization, targeting the most vulnerable populations, often women and children. With the active involvement of communities, Amref Health Africa develops and implements innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health challenges facing the continent. Its programs focus on providing access to clean water, training health workers, preventing HIV/AIDS and malaria, and bringing surgical care to remote areas. With more than 50 years experience in health development, Amref Health Africa has led efforts to rebuild health care systems decimated by war and created new ones where none existed before. Today, Amref Health Africa implements its projects through country programs in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, South Sudan and South Africa. Training, laboratory and consulting support are provided to an © AMREF additional 30 African countries. Having identified a lack of health workers as the key obstacle to improving health across Africa, in the last two years Amref Health Africa has trained nearly 500,000 health personnel, from doctors and nurses to midwives and community volunteers, leading to improved health for millions of people, never losing sight of its guiding premise: only Africans can lead Africa into the 21st century.

www.amref.org

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) Niger, 2008 © Nico Heijenberg/MSF

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in nearly 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF also reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF provides essential health care, rehabilitates and runs Niger, 2007 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, battles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding programs for malnourished children, and offers mental health care. MSF’s work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. It does not take sides, provides care on the basis of need alone, and pushes for increased independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law. On any one day, more than 31,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water and sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals representing dozens of nationalities can be found providing assistance to people caught in crises around the world.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. On the ground within 72 hours of an emergency, the IRC arrives with urgently needed supplies and expertise to protect people caught in the midst of chaos. The IRC makes the long-term commitment, staying on average 12 years after the end of an emergency, to help people restore their shattered communities and shape a future full of peace and progress. For those refugees who cannot return home, and who qualify for resettlement in the United States, the IRC enables them to establish new lives in a free society, becoming self-sufficient and productive members of their new communities. The IRC is consistently awarded high marks by charity watchdog groups and respected publications for its efficient use of financial support and the effectiveness of its work. Of every $1 the IRC spends, 90¢ goes to programs and services that directly benefit refugees and communities affected by war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries, and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC is restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure, leading the way from harm to home.

www.rescue.org THE 1996 CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

Operation Smile

Every three minutes, a child is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. A baby born with a cleft has twice the odds of dying before celebrating its first birthday. Those who survive often have difficulty eating, speaking, socializing and smiling. Every child deserves the ability to smile and a chance to thrive. But in many parts of the world, children with facial deformities are hidden away, too embarrassed to attend school, and they face uncertain futures because their parents cannot afford to provide the surgery they need. Operation Smile is an international medical charity that works in more than 60 countries to provide free life-changing surgery for children and young adults suffering from facial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate. More than 5,400 medical professionals from over 80 countries around the world volunteer with Operation Smile. Since its founding in 1982, Operation Smile’s global network of volunteer doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have provided more than 220,000 free surgical procedures. The organization is committed to building long-term self-sufficiency in resource-poor environments. Operation Smile trains local doctors and medical professionals so they are empowered to offer treatment in their own communities year-round. Nearly 67% of Operation Smile’s surgeries are performed in-country by local volunteers during medical missions, or at year-round care centers. Operation Smile believes no child should suffer or die because of a facial deformity. With access to safe surgery, these children have the chance to lead a better life and become a vibrant part of their communities.

www.operationsmile.org Hilton Humanitarian Prize Laureates Coalition

AN INDEPENDENT ALLIANCE OF HILTON PRIZE RECIPIENTS

In 2006, nine recipients of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, inspired by addresses the challenges of women who live with fistula. The Fellows work with the two each other’s work, decided to find opportunities to work together. Emerging from that Laureates to coordinate programs addressing prevention of fistula, identification of patients, original commitment is the Hilton Prize Laureates Coalition, an independent alliance of the medical surgery and rehabilitation. 20 unique and innovative humanitarian organizations. With Laureates working in more than Disaster Resiliency and Response The Prize Colaition is developing an innovative, 150 countries, this global coalition seeks to leverage resources and expertise, explore collaborative model for disaster resiliency and response that is meant to deliver timelier, more innovations and establish best practices and standards that can be shared with the global effective systems and processes before and long after a disaster occurs. NGO and donor communities. Two signature programs have been designed to build upon A sampling of Hilton Prize Laureates collaborations: this collaborative approach. Women for Women International, Heifer International, Partners In Health and Youth Fellowship The Prize Coalition recognizes that the next generation of leaders International Rescue Committee launched a two-year monitoring and evaluation capacity in the humanitarian field needs hands-on experience, both within headquarters in the U.S. and initiative. The outcomes were released to the greater NGO and nonprofit community. abroad, as well as field experience. University students and young professionals may work with Partners In Health partnered with Doctors Without Borders to combat the Haiti the leaders of two or more Hilton Laureate organizations on projects providing cross-cultural cholera epidemic; and with Operation Smile on medical and surgical interventions. All three opportunities. collaborate on a nurses training program. The first placements began in 2014 with Fellows completing internships in In Senegal, PATH and Tostan are collaborating on evaluating the impact of Tostan’s Washington, D.C. over the summer and a placement in Senegal working in collaboration community empowerment program on gender-based violence. with Amref Health Africa and Tostan on a program funded by UNFPA. The joint program Operation Smile and PATH have implemented a nutritional assessment effort in India. The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Symposia

In addition to recognizing and advancing the work of organizations alleviating human suffering, the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize was created in 1996 to focus attention on the humanitarian needs of the world’s people. To that end, from 1998 to 2009, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation sponsored an annual international symposium to address critical global challenges, and explore ways to prevent and alleviate suffering. The Hilton Humanitarian Symposium resumed in 2013.

Symposis Themes

1998 Humanitarian Aid Challenges in the New Millennium: Where are we headed?

1999 Humanitarian Crises…Preventive Measures Through Human Rights

2000 From Conflict to Peace, Justice and Reconciliation

2002 Social Justice: Bridging the Global Gap Between Rich and Poor

2003 Humanitarian Intervention Today: New Issues, New Ideas, New Players

2004 Health, Development and Conflict: Lessons Learned

2005 Vulnerable Populations: International Community Responsibilities

2006 Democracy and Development: Political, Economic and Human Rights

2007 The Changing Face of Philanthropy: Evolution or Revolution?

2008 Reaching the Bottom Billion: Is there a Tipping Point?

2009 Philanthropy Redefined in an Era of Change

2013 Humanitarianism and Technology: A Global Game Changer

2014 Africa: A Continent at the Threshold Strategic Initiatives

Catholic Sisters Building a global sisterhood to advance human development.

Children Affected By HIV and AIDS Improving early childhood development outcomes for young children affected by HIV and AIDS. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Foster Youth Achieving healthy and productive lives for transition-age Initiatives and Programs youth in foster care.

Homelessness Rooted in the life interests and last will of its founder, the Ending chronic homelessness. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation pursues approaches that touch a

Substance Use Prevention diversity of people, places, and needs. The Foundation identifies Youth substance use prevention and early intervention. critical societal needs, and then proactively initiates major, long-term projects with selected partner organizations for implementation. Its Safe Water Increasing access to safe water for vulnerable and offices are located in Agoura Hills, California. disadvantaged communities. The Foundation’s current assests are in excess of $2.5 billion. Since inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $1 billion in Major Programs grants and in 2014 distributed $100 million to organizations in the

Avoidable Blindness U.S. and throughout the world. Preventing avoidable sight loss from cataracts and blinding The Foundation invests in 11 priority areas—six strategic trachoma. initiatives and five major programs. Each involves partnering with

Catholic Education grantees, generating new knowledge, giving voice to issues, and Revitalizing Catholic schools serving low-income families. joining with others to achieve measurable impact.

Disaster Relief and Recovery Supporting disaster preparedness, relief and long-term recovery.

Hospitality Building career pathways for youth in the hospitality sector.

Multiple Sclerosis Seeking a cure and improving quality of life for those who live with multiple sclerosis. About Conrad and Barron Hilton

CONRAD N. HILTON Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in an adobe dwelling on Christmas day, 1887, in San Antonio, New Mexico Territory, one of seven children. Using extraordinary instinct, vision and business acumen, Conrad Hilton created the largest and most profitable international hotel chain of his era. The hotel empire he founded nearly 100 years ago, although no longer under Hilton family leadership or control, still circles the globe. To this day, the Hilton name remains synonymous with hotels. A man with deep faith and compassion, Hilton created his own foundation in 1944 as a vehicle to share his wealth, and when he died in 1979 at the age of 91, he bequeathed essentially his entire estate, principally in the form of Hilton Hotels stock, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. His Last Will and Testament directed that his wealth be eternally reinvested to alleviate human suffering throughout the world. His words serve as a reminder of the Foundation’s roots: “As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions.”

Steven Hilton and Barron Hilton in front of portrait of Conrad Hilton BARRON HILTON Barron Hilton and Steven Hilton in front of portrait of Conrad Hilton William Barron Hilton, chairman emeritus of the Hilton Foundation, founded several companies before succeeding his father as head of Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1966. He led the company for three decades while it experienced tremendous growth. In 2008, after the company was sold, Barron added his name to the philanthropic legacy of his father by contributing to the Hilton Foundation $1.2 billion from his proceeds of the sale. Sharing his father’s commitment to helping the disadvantaged throughout the world, Barron told the Foundation board: “My father believed that charity is the supreme virtue. I share his philosophy and it is my intention to follow his example by leaving 97% of my net worth to the Foundation when I die.” Today, Steven M. Hilton, Barron’s son and Conrad’s grandson, is Chairman, President and CEO of the Hilton Foundation, continuing the legacy of the Hilton family’s charitable work into the next generation. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Board of Directors

Steven M. Hilton Chairman, President & CEO

William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H.

James R. Galbraith

Conrad N. Hilton III HILTON PRIZE STAFF Hawley Hilton McAuliffe Judy M. Miller Eric M. Hilton Vice President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Director, Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize William B. Hilton, Jr. Maggie Miller Sister Joyce Meyer, PBVM Assistant Director, Humanitarian Prize

John L. Notter Hannah Mora Coordinator, Humanitarian Prize William G. Ouchi, Ph.D.

Barron Hilton Chairman Emeritus

Donald H. Hubbs Director Emeritus www.hiltonfoundation.org CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF www.hiltonfoundation.org www.hiltonfoundation.org THE CONRAD N. HILTON HUMANITARIAN PRIZE