2022 Community Partnership Award Event (l–r): Brian Severin, Senior Executive Vice President and CMO, Mutual of America Financial Group; Lisa Loughry, Chair, Mutual of America Foundation; Lori Stevens, Founder and Executive Director of Patriot PAWS Service Dogs; John R. Greed, Chairman, President and CEO, Mutual of America Financial Group.

2022 Community Partnership Award Event (l–r): Brian Severin, Senior Executive Vice President and CMO, Mutual of America Financial Group; Lisa Loughry, Chair, Mutual of America Foundation; Lori Stevens, Founder and Executive Director of Patriot PAWS Service Dogs; John R. Greed, Chairman, President and CEO, Mutual of America Financial Group.

About the Mutual of America Foundation Community Partnership Award

The Mutual of America Foundation Community Partnership Award was created in 1996.

Each year, we honor nonprofit organizations from across the country that are helping to move our nation forward by building healthier, more equitable communities. Now in its 28th year, this prestigious award encourages nonprofits that work in partnership with public, private and other social sector organizations to demonstrate:

  1. The measurable impact their program is having on the communities it serves.
  2. What they are doing to replicate and share their program for the benefit of other local communities.
  3. How they are innovating new approaches to meeting new and evolving community needs.

In 2023, an independent committee selected six Community Partnership Award winners from more than 800 organizations that applied for an award. From this group:

  • One organization received the Thomas J. Moran Award, which is given to the national award-winning program. The Thomas J. Moran Award-winning organization received $100,000 and a documentary video about its program. Past winners have used their video as a valuable tool to expand public awareness of their work and to help attract additional partners and sponsors.
  • One organization received the Frances R. Hesselbein Award and $75,000. This award annually recognizes a partnership that is addressing social challenges in more than one community or that demonstrates the potential to be replicated in other communities.
  • Four organizations were named Honorable Mention recipients. Each received a $50,000 award.

It is with enormous pride that Mutual of America presents profiles of each of the 2023 Community Partnership Award winners. We also invite you to visit the official Mutual of America Foundation YouTube channel to see the videos created for each of the 28 Thomas J. Moran Award-winning programs.

Two visionaries unite to shine light on nonprofits

Nearly three decades ago, Thomas J. Moran and Frances R. Hesselbein led the way, along with board members and other sector leaders, in establishing the Mutual of America Foundation Community Partnership Award. To celebrate their significant and lasting contributions, the top-two awards are named in their honor.

The Thomas J. Moran Award is presented annually to the national award-winning program. The eponymous award commemorates the lifetime achievements and personal generosity of Thomas Moran, who passed away in 2018 after serving as Chairman, President and CEO during a distinguished 43-year career at Mutual of America from 1975 to 2018. Mr. Moran championed the Community Partnership Award as a way to recognize the extraordinary leadership of nonprofit organizations across the United States and to highlight the numerous contributions they make to society and, in particular, toward improving the lives of individuals most in need.

The Frances R. Hesselbein Award was created in 2022 in special recognition of Frances Hesselbein, who served on our board and was an esteemed part of the Mutual of America family for more than 40 years. Her deep connection to the nonprofit community helped lead to the creation of the Community Partnership Award, on whose Selection Committee she served as a founding member until her passing in 2022. Ms. Hesselbein, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1998 by President Clinton, served as President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum at the University of Pittsburgh. She also served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

800+

Nonprofits that applied for the 2023 Community Partnership Award

6

2023 Community Partnership Award winners

262

Community Partnership Award recipients honored since 1996

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