Dawn Blackman a Randolph Community Garden.
Dawn Blackman Sr. na Champaign (Ill.) Cocin 'yan'uwa an girmama shi a matsayin 2015 Manufa Prize Fellow ta Encore.org don jagorancinta na gudanar da lambun al'umma wanda ke da alaƙa da ikilisiya. Lambun Al'ummar titin Randolph yana ɗaya daga cikin lambunan da suka sami tallafi daga Asusun Rikicin Abinci na Duniya (GFCF) ta hanyar shirin Zuwa Lambun.
"GFCF ta ba da tallafin $1,000 daban-daban," in ji manajan GFCF Jeff Boshart. Blackman "yana da wasu tsare-tsare da yawa don faɗaɗawa nan gaba kuma GFCF tana fatan ganin yadda za mu kasance cikin taimakonta ta ci gaba da yin mafarkin hanyoyin da za ta yi hidima a unguwar da ke kusa da Cocin Champaign na 'Yan'uwa."
Kyautar Manufar ita ce ta gane masu ƙirƙira zamantakewa waɗanda suka haura shekaru 60. A ranar 13 ga Nuwamba, Encore.org "ya girmama nasarorin da aka samu fiye da 50 fitattun mutane da ke aiki don inganta al'ummomin gida da kuma duniya," in ji sanarwar. Encore.org ya bayyana kansa a matsayin "mai zaman kansa na kasa wanda ke gina motsi don gwada kwarewar mutane a tsakiyar rayuwa da kuma bayan wadanda ke amfani da shekarun su - lokacin ritaya na gargajiya - don gudanar da ayyuka masu tasiri na zamantakewa."
A wannan shekara Blackman yana cikin 41 Manufa Prize Fellows waɗanda aka zaɓa daga tafkin sama da 600 da aka zaɓa. "Misalan su suna haskaka a matsayin abin koyi ga miliyoyin Amirkawa waɗanda suka yi imanin za su iya amfani da kwarewar rayuwarsu don kawo canji," in ji sanarwar.
Masu shari'a 26 da suka zabi wadanda aka ba da lambar yabo ta Manufar sun hada da Sherry Lansing, tsohon Shugaba na Paramount; Michael D. Eisner, tsohon Shugaba na Kamfanin Walt Disney kuma wanda ya kafa Gidauniyar Eisner; Arianna Huffington, wanda ya kafa Huffington Post; Jo Ann Jenkins, Shugaba na AARP; Eric Liu, marubuci kuma wanda ya kafa Jami'ar Citizen; da Sree Sreenivasan, Babban Jami'in Dijital na Gidan Tarihi na Gidan Tarihi na Art.
Wadanda suka ci lambar yabo ta 2015 da abokan zamansu za su kasance tare da ɗimbin masu karrama Manufa na baya a wani biki a ranar 10 ga Fabrairu, 2016, a Cibiyar SF Jazz a San Francisco, Calif.
Nemo ƙarin game da aikin Blackman da girmamawar da ta samu http://encore.org/purpose-prize/dawn-m-blackman-sr. Nemo ƙarin game da ma'aikatar GFCF a www.brethren.ofg/gfcf.