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

          2020

          • Ady Barkan
          • Heather McGhee
          • Kamilah Forbes

          2019

          • Barbara Winslow
          • Linda Sarsour
          • Maurice Mitchell

          2018

          • Cristina Jiménez Moreta
          • Héctor Figueroa
          • Stephen Adly Guirgis

          2017

          • Hugh Hogan
          • Maggie Williams
          • Rashad Robinson

          2016

          • Billie Jean King
          • Gara LaMarche
          • George Gresham

             

            2015

            • Julissa Reynoso
            • Keith Mestrich
            • Mike Muse

            2014

            • Dr. Gail Furman
            • Peggy Saika
            • William Traylor

            2013

            • Lorna Brett Howard
            • Mallika Dutt
            • Rafael E. Cestero

            2012

            • Benjamin Warnke
            • Kai Wright
            • Marjorie Fine

            2011

            • Arva Rice
            • Lawrence B. Benenson
            • Vincent McGee

            2010

            • Asad Mahmood
            • Katherine Acey
            • Katrina vanden Heuvel
            • Maria Castaneda

            2009

            • David Strathairn
            • Marsha Bonner
            • Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss

            2008

            • Elizabeth Wagley and Joe Conason
            • Kanyere Eaton
            • Susan Butler Plum

            2007

            • Carmen Charles
            • Toby D’Oench

            Header photo by Gerard Gaskin.