Heart Gallery wins Russ Berrie Award

I am very excited to con­grat­u­late my col­league Najlah Hicks and her orga­ni­za­tion the Heart Gallery of New Jer­sey for win­ning the top prize in the 2008 Russ Berrie Award for Mak­ing a Dif­fer­ence.  The $50,000 grant will help fund the oper­a­tions of the Heart Gallery, which brings in world class pho­tog­ra­phers to make por­traits of fos­ter care youth in the effort to help them get adopted.  It has been a plea­sure to get to know Najlah and the Heart Gallery over the past year and I look for­ward to see them con­tinue their work with the recog­ni­tion and finan­cial back needed to find lov­ing homes for more fos­ter care youth.  You can read the press release here.