Grand Prize Winner will be announced April 24th
PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 2025 – Barbershop Books, BleagLee, and Technovation have been named as winners of the 2025 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from an applicant pool of 150 organizations, all three winners are guaranteed an unrestricted financial award of $150,000 as well as executive training and support from both the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. One grand prize winner will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds. The grand prize winner will be announced at an in-person award ceremony in April.
“It’s a privilege to witness the incredible work being done by organizations that are truly making an impact. This year’s winners embody the spirit of the prize through their commitment to innovation, transferability, and positive change. We look forward to building lasting partnerships and supporting them in their continued journeys toward transformative success,” said Euria Min, Director of the Lipman Family Prize.
Lipman Family Prize winners also gain access to a growing community of change-makers and thought leaders that accelerate cutting-edge impact worldwide. The Prize connects these organizations on the cusp of great change with the resources, skills, and peoplepower to expand the impact and influence of their work. Benefits include tuition-free executive education programs, scholarship opportunities like Lipman Nonprofit Scholarship, peer learning events, as well as expert and student-driven research to inform and support their work.
About the 2025 Winners
Barbershop Books is on a mission to inspire Black boys and other vulnerable children to read for fun through child-centered, culturally responsive, and community-based programming and content.
BleagLee fights climate change by using innovative waste inspection, collection, and recycling solutions to address the issue of improper waste management in urban and rural communities.
Technovation empowers girls to become leaders, technology innovators, and real-world problem solvers by equipping them with tech education, an entrepreneurial mindset, and future-ready skills.
About the Lipman Family Prize
First awarded in 2012, the Lipman Family Prize at the University of Pennsylvania is an annual global prize that honors nonprofit organizations based on their leadership, impact, innovation, and transferability of ideas. Administered by the Wharton School on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania, the Prize is committed to resourcing and connecting change-makers to bring their leading solutions to new places and problems around the world. Previous winners include iDE, READ Global, Breakthrough, Riders for Health, Soccer Without Borders, Women Against Abuse, MyAgro, World Bicycle Relief, Sanku, EarthEnable, CDD Society, Build Up Nepal and Seacology.
About the Wharton School
Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With a faculty of more than 235 renowned professors, Wharton has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year, 100,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs, and thousands of pre-collegiate students explore business concepts through Wharton’s Global Youth Program. More than 105,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day. For more information, visit www.wharton.upenn.edu.
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