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Leaders receive praise for promoting thinking and action
Leadership Triangle is proud to announce the sixth annual Goodmon Awards, recognizing individuals and organizations that exhibit outstanding regional leadership. The awards were presented on December 10, 2007, at an awards dinner presented by Leadership Triangle at American Tobacco, Bay 7, Durham, N.C.
As communities across the Triangle come to understand the importance of working together, regional thinking and regional cooperation become more essential to our individual and collective well being. Yet, we have few mechanisms in place for rewarding such regional foresight and action. As a result, Leadership Triangle has established these annual awards in honor of James F. Goodmon to recognize leaders and organization in our community who are regionally minded - and who exhibit that frame of mind in their personal and professional lives.
The 2007 Goodmon Award Winners are:
Individual
 This award is being accepted by Debra Tyler Horton, Deputy Director, N.C. Justice Center on behalf of Dani Martinez-Moore Dani Martinez-Moore, Network of Immigrant Advocates Coordinator, N.C. Justice Center
Dani Martinez-Moore is the coordinator for the North Carolina Network of Immigrant Advocates at the North Carolina Justice Center. The obstacles for immigrants' rights advocates are many in this climate of anti-immigrant backlash, and even allies fear strong identification with the interests of immigrant communities. Yet Dani is fearlessly out in front of many issues facing immigrants, creating partnerships to address pressing policy concerns and taking action on behalf of the disenfranchised. Dani's work in immigrant organizing and advocacy is unparalleled and is resulting in a more tolerant and accepting Triangle family of communities for people of all backgrounds.
Individual
 Tim Tyson Tim Tyson, Author and Educator
Most of us know Tim Tyson from his epic and award-winning book, Blood Done Sign My Name. But Tim's leadership stretches well beyond the best-seller list. More than an author, he is an educator and healer, working locally and nationally to mend the racial chasm in our lives. Tim gets people's attention, sparking truthful conversations about the role of the church in maintaining slavery and racial segregation, insisting that all of us embrace our public schools, and leading us all to ask anew, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "Where do we go from here?"
Elected Official
 Mike Nelson is accepting this award, posthumously, for his friend and mentor Joe Herzenberg Joe Herzenberg
When Joe Herzenberg died last month, it was a great loss not only for the people of Chapel Hill and Orange County where he lived, worked, and served; but also the entire Triangle family of communities. During his many years of community service both as a tireless advocate and dedicated elected official, Joe worked diligently for racial justice; affordable housing, lesbian-gay-bisexual and transgender rights; greenways; libraries; and civil liberties. He was a leader, a role model and a pioneer. And his legacy lives on in the hearts and minds of many of the Triangle's most effective leaders.
Organization
 Bill Jamieson, Board Chair Action for Children North Carolina Action for Children North Carolina
Action for Children is an organization devoted to making North Carolina the best state in which to be and raise a child. It's also a good steward of its own human and financial resources. Action for Children works with nonprofits, businesses and local and state government to develop policies and programs that benefit every child in the Old North State. The organization's attention and dedication to its mission has created a statewide community in which our children and youth can grow up healthier, safer and better educated, with every opportunity for success.
Exemplary Regional Partnership
 Carolyn Kreuger and Lynn Pearse Kids Voting Wake County & Kids Voting Durham/Durham Cooperative Extension
Kids Voting Wake County and Kids Voting Durham County are helping develop the future electorate by providing K-12 kids with an authentic voting experience in local elections. Despite each organization facing mission-critical challenges to their continued operation, the two executive directors - Lynn Pearse and Carolyn Kreuger - drummed up community and corporate support, worked with local schools. Their efforts not only turned around their organizations, but allowed for an expansion into new precincts and created Triangle Kids Voting. Through their leadership and tenacity, the entire Triangle family of communities benefits from a more informed and invested group of future voters.
People's Choice Awards
 Meg Molloy, Executive Director North Carolina Prevention Partners
North Carolina Prevention Partners provides key leadership in preventive healthcare for the Triangle. It focuses on reducing tobacco use, physical inactivity and poor nutrition. Addressing these issues can prevent two-thirds of early deaths and disabilities. Triangle area schools, restaurants, businesses, health departments, and local health coalitions use NCPP programs to educate smokers, establish non-smoking programs, and even become 100-percent smoke-free. NCPP recently received the NC Center for Nonprofits' Annual Sector Stewardship Award. Anyone who works with NCPP knows the organization exudes passion for its mission, which is putting prevention first for a healthier North Carolina.
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