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January 21, 2008
By CLEM RICHARDSON
New York Daily News
Iris Morales knows how to pick a winner, and that's a good thing for this city.
As executive director of the Union Square Awards, Morales and her staff - Program Officer Cynthia Wong, Program Associate Irini Neofotistos and Program Coordinator Telesh Lopez - have, since 1998, been identifying and supporting up-and-coming organizations working to better their community and/or target group.
The roster of Union Square Award winners include groups and personalities that have since become powerhouses in the city and nation, including: Majora Carter of the environmental advocacy group Sustainable South Bronx (2002 winner); Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (2004); Added Value, an urban farm program (2006); Housing Matters of New York (2004); Oona Chatterjee and Andrew Friedman of the worker organizing group Make the Road by Walking (1998-1999), and Hour Children (2007), a Queens group that helps families of incarcerated women.
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For more information on Tides Center project Union Square Awards, see www.unionsquareawards.org.
