HONORING JUSTICE LEADERS

Over the years North Star Fund has honored many outstanding leaders with either the Frederick Douglass Award or the North Star Award. Here are all the individuals and organizations we have recognized for their work for justice in New York and beyond.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS AWARD HONOREES

2026

Adelante Student Voices
Caribbean Equality Project
Street Vendor Project

2025

Arab American Association of New York (AAANY)
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR)
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

2024

AfroResistance
NY Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Yonkers Sanctuary Movement

2023

La Colmena
Sweet Freedom Farm
The UndocuBlack Network

2022

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

2021

NYS Youth Leadership Council
Rise Up Kingston
Worker’s Justice Project

2020

Green Light NY
Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance

2019

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign

2018

Brooklyn Movement Center
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson

2017

African Communities Together
New Immigrant Community Empowerment

2016

Adhikaar
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

2015

Faith in New York
Justice Committee

2014

Brooklyn Food Coalition
Communities United for Police Reform

2013

Damayan Migrant Workers Association
El Centro del Inmigrante

2012

MinKwon Center for Community Action
Picture the Homeless

2011

FIERCE
Make the Road New York
VOCAL New York

2010

Brandworkers International
Women On the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH)

2009

Community Voices Heard
VAMOS Unidos

2008

Domestic Workers United

2007

Esperanza del Barrio
Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS)

2005

Anthony Romero
Barbara Winslow
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi
Mothers on the Move

2003

Betty Kapetanakis (In Memoriam)
Coalition Against Police Brutality
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)

2001

Democracy Now!
New Caucus of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY

1999

Blackberry Productions
Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
Betty Millard
Michael Ratner
Youth Force

1997

City Limits Magazine
Juan Gonzalez
Dr. Manning Marable
Monthly Review Press
Susan Meiselas

1996

Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Kids Meeting Kids
Richard E. Green

1994

Donna Katzin
Grace Paley
Ingrid Washinawatok
JoAnn Lum
June Jackson Christmas
Lucy Lippard
Marie St. Cyr
Marjorie Hill
Martha Baker
Martha Garcia
Partia Rodriguez
Rosalba Rolon
Ruby Dee
Suki Terada Ports
Yuri Kochiyama

1993

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (In Memoriam)
Leonard Peltier
Youth Uprising

1992

Anne H. Hess
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
Gil Noble
Marshall England

1989

Bishop Paul Moore

1988

Center for Anti-Violence Education
Legal Action Center for the Homeless
Middle East Peace Network
Puerto Rican Committee Against Repression

1987

New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council
New York Women Against Rape

1986

Center for Immigrants’ Rights
Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York
C. Vernon Mason
Hon. Ruth Messinger

1985

Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
Lower East Side Joint Planning Council
Men of All Colors Together
NY Mobilization for Survival
Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers

1984

David R. Hunter

NORTH STAR AWARD HONOREES