Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE, is honored to be a recipient of a 2016 Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation.
Stanton Fellows are defined as “the most knowledgeable, inquisitive, ambitious, influential and highly networked leaders – the ones who are best positioned to identify and solve a thorny problem.”
The Durfee Foundation’s prestigious Stanton Fellowship provides up to six fellows with $100,000 each over a two-year period “to think deeply about the intractable problems in their sector, and to tease out solutions that will improve life for the people of L.A.”
This year’s recipients are:
Tim Carpenter, Founder/CEO, EngAGE
Helmi Hisserich, Asst General Manager, Housing and Community Investment Department, City of Los Angeles
Leslie A. Ito, President and CEO, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Hilda Maldonado, Executive Director, Multilingual and Multicultural Education Department, Los Angeles Unified School District
Kerry Morrison, Executive Director, Hollywood Property Owners Alliance
Johng Ho Song, Executive Director, Koreatown Youth & Community Center
An Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, December 10 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm at the Center for Preservation of Democracy / Japanese American National Museum at 369 E. 1st St., Los Angeles 90012. The public is welcome.
Learn more about Stanton Fellowship at the Durfee Foundation website.
