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CivicMind™ Awards
1999-2006

Recipients of CivicMind™Awards were selected by Wendy Bay Lewis and announced on this web site to recognize organizations that advance civic engagement, community service and democratic practices.

CivicMind™ Awards - 2006

• Washington Service Corps (65th CivicMind Award, July 2006) - a publicly-funded statewide service program which engages young adults in addressing community needs across Washington State in the areas of education, environment, homeland security, emergency preparedness, and other human needs.
  
  
  
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (64th Award, June 2006) - a national nonprofit Latino civil rights organization that promotes and protects the rights of Latinos through litigation, advocacy, community education and outreach, leadership development, and higher education scholarships.
  
  
  
• Natural Resources Defense Council (63rd Award, April 2006) - a nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health, the environment, and unspoiled wildlands in the Americas threatened by development.
  
  
  
• American Library Association (62nd CivicMind Award, March 2006) - represents 16,000 libraries nationwide which insure free and equal access to information for all, protect intellectual freedom under the First Amendment, and promote the highest quality library services.
  
  
  
• V-Day: Until the Violence Stops (61st Award, February 2006) is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls by promoting awareness and raising money for local anti-violence organizations, primarily through worldwide performances of The Vagina Monologues every year in February and March.
  
  
  
• ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union (60th Award, January 2006) - a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization founded in 1920 to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
  
  

2005 CivicMind™ Awards

2004 CivicMind™ Awards

Public Interest Research Groups - PIRGS - December 2003

• Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy - University of Maryland School of Law - November 2003
  
• The Legal Services Corporation - September 2003
  
• National Constitution Center - July 2003
  
• National High School Mock Trial Championship - May 2003
  
• JURIST: The Legal Education Network™ - April 2003
  
• On the Docket - March 2003
  
• National Alliance for Civic Education - February 2003
  
• The Connecticut Network (CT-N) - State Civics Toolbox - January 2003
  
  

• Constitutional Rights Foundation - December 2002
  
• First Amendment Schools - November 2002
  
• Our Documents.gov - October 2002
  
• National Endowment for Democracy - September 2002
  
• Conversations on Law & Liberty in Times of Crisis - American Bar Association, Public Education Division - June 2002
  
• Defending Those Who Give the Earth a Voice, Sierra Club and Amnesty International USA - April 2002
  
• Youth Leadership Initiative, University of Virginia - March 2002
  
• National Youth Court Center - February 2002
  
• Millennium Project at Cleveland State University - January 2002
  
  

• Close Up Foundation - December 2001
  
• Campus Compact - October 2001
  
• Iowa Student Political Awareness Club - August 2001
  
• Alabama Center for Law & Civic Education - June-July 2001
  
• The LegiSchool Project - May 2001
  
• Street Law - April 2001
  
• Chiesman Foundation for Democracy - March 2001
  
• The California Voter Foundation - February 2001
  
• Citizen Involvement Committee - January 2001
  

• Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine Law - December 2000
  
• Commission on Presidential Debates - October 2000
  
• Kids Voting USA - September 2000
  
• City of Lenexa, Kansas - August 2000
  
• Stateline.org - June-July 2000
  
• CongressLink - May 2000
  
• The Federal Judiciary Homepage - April 2000
  
• ACLU of Montana,Your Constitutional Rights - March 2000
• Citizen Advocacy Center - February 2000
  
• Justice Talking - January 2000
  
• State Bar of Michigan - December 1999
• Pew Center for Civic Journalism - November 1999
  
  
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