Skidmore Prize

✨We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Skidmore Prize!✨

Do you know a nonprofit professional superstar who deserves special recognition? We wanna hear about 'em!

The annual Skidmore Prize honors four young professionals whose work for local nonprofits makes our community a better place for all people. Click here to learn more about the Skidmore Prize — including eligibility criteria and general guidelines — and to submit your nomination.


More about the Skidmore Prize

The inspiration for the name of this prize: The Skidmore Fountain in Portland’s Old Town, which bears the inscription, “Good citizens are the riches of a city.”


Next fall, our four Skidmore Prize winners will enjoy special recognition throughout the Give!Guide campaign for their contributions and hard work. Skidmore Prize winners are the embodiment of community dedication, a testament to the power of passion and purpose. We honor not just their achievements but the potential in all of us to make a meaningful difference.


Winners of the Skidmore Prize must be under the age of 36 and work full-time for a local nonprofit.

2007 Prize Winners
Zan Gibbs
Not everyones job might involve poetry reading, a drag show and suicide counselingall on the same night. But as resource...
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Wendi Anderson
McCoy Village is a nondescript apartment complex on the busy intersection of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Prescott Street....
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Neal Armstrong
Follow Neal Armstrong down a narrow staircase in the back of Northeast Alberta Streets Community Cycling Center, and youre suddenly immersed in...
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Kayse Jama
The Center for Intercultural Organizing in Northeast Portland looks like the scene of a party. Amid bright walls painted in orange and yellow,...
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