Kristof Impact Initiative

We're excited to share that Nick Kristof is about to be on MSNBC's Morning Joe! Tune in at 6:25 PT/9:25 ET today, Wednesday 11/27. Photo from last year. We hope this becomes an annual tradition!

We’re honored to announce that Fistula Foundation has just been chosen by Nick Kristof as a winner of the 2024 Kristof Impact Initiative Holiday Impact Prize! The Kristof Impact prize connects readers who want to help but don’t know how and organizations that need resources but aren’t well-known. Read the article: https://nyti.ms/3V6YCy2

We’re honored to be recognized by the 2024 Kristof Impact Initiative! 🎉 This award highlights our mission to provide 24/7 mental health support to those in crisis, especially during the holidays—a time that can be challenging for many. As a Crisis Text Line volunteer, you can help save lives, one text at a time. Are you ready to be part of a movement that brings calm to moments of chaos? Join us and make a difference this season. 💙 https://lnkd.in/gQAbKa_2 #HolidayImpactPrize #MentalHealthSupport #CrisisTextLine #YouAreNotAlone

“By ‘prescribing’ books during pediatric visits — and giving the books away for free — Reach Out and Read ushers children onto the magic carpet of reading at an early age for an incredibly inexpensive cost.” - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kristof. Huge news from The New York Times today: Nick Kristof awarded Reach Out and Read the Kristof Impact Initiative Prize. This honor recognizes the transformational impact of our evidence-based model, which gives millions of under-resourced children a better start to life.

The New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Nick Kristof, has selected Muso as a recipient of the #HolidayImpactPrize! This annual award honors organizations creating lasting, positive change in the world. Now more than ever, we must address the urgent need for timely, quality health care for all. Kristof Impact Initiative Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dWccu-fz #RightCareRightTime

With respect to the 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Nick Kristof the one line story is: Muso achieved the lowest child mortality rates in Sub-Saharan Africa for five consecutive years, with a remarkable tenfold decline, then *reduced* child death during active conflict. 👏 👏 👏  

I am so very proud of the work we do at Crisis Text Line. We have dedicated volunteers and staff who are committed to our mission. To receive this honor from the Kristof Impact Initiative and recognition from the The New York Times reinforces the fact that so many others believe in our ability to provide human to human connection to those in need. Please consider donating your time to serve others…along side us!

Every day, I’m proud to be part of a team dedicated to transforming women’s lives—but this weekend was particularly special. Fistula Foundation was honored as a winner of the 2024 Kristof Impact Initiative and featured in The New York Times! As a communications professional and advocate for women’s health, I’m overjoyed to see our work recognized on such a significant platform. This acknowledgment highlights the life-changing impact of restoring health and hope to women living with fistula. I am so grateful to be part of this work and to share this milestone with everyone!

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that." ~ Rev. Martin Luther King. Thank you to Nick Kristof, 2-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and columnist at The New York Times, for recognizing Muso community partners, our team, and our health care providers, with the 2024 Kristof Holiday Impact Prize. Read his column, Gift Ideas That Push Back the Darkness, here. https://lnkd.in/gWZdpesZ We are living through a dark moment. The world faces more armed conflict than at any time since World War II. This when we are most needed: our action, our commitment, our care matters. When armed conflict broke out in central Mali, our community partners achieved a 63% reduction in child deaths, compared to peacetime. They proved that care can be more powerful than war. Join our community of action (link in the comments) as we aim to provide rapid health care for more than 600,000 people directly, and to 60 million people through policy change and national health care reforms. Let's push back the darkness together. Congratulations to team Muso, and to our inspiring fellow prize winners this year, Fistula Foundation, Reach Out and Read, and Crisis Text Line! Dena Trujillo Nancy Lublin Dr. Esther Njoroge-Muriithi MBChB, MPH Marty Martinez Kristof Impact Initiative Focusing Philanthropy Larry Gilson Whitney Schaefer

Since 2009, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist at The New York Times, Nick Kristof, has written an annual “holiday gift guide” column to raise the profiles of impactful organizations solving the issues covered in his journalism. Included in this year’s column are Muso and Crisis Text Line, two DRK portfolio organizations expanding access to healthcare and mental health resources to save lives. Through government adoption of their rapid care model and community health worker programs, Muso has directly and indirectly reached over 4.5 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa with care during their earliest moments of need — dramatically reducing mortality rates and accelerating access to care for all. And, through their free, 24/7 text-based platform and a network of trained counselors, Crisis Text Line has provided critical mental health support to more than 5.8 million people globally — offering a scalable model for global mental health crisis intervention. Read the column “Gift Ideas That Push Back the Darkness” in The New York Times to learn more about the Kristof Impact Initiative and the organizations bringing light to those who need it most: https://lnkd.in/gDPTB-8h Ari Johnson Dena Trujillo