2013-2019 Recipients
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2019 | R.W. and Mary NelsonR.W. and Mary Nelson, founders of Kemin Industries, received the 2019 Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award. The award was given to the Nelsons for their profound humanitarian commitment as manifested in their outreach to remote parts of distant countries to alleviate the suffering of villagers and help rebuild communities affected by devastating natural disasters... more |
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2018 | Iowa SHARES Humanitarians14 individuals and organizations received the 2018 Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award. The award was given to those who, following the late Iowa Governor Ray's inspired humanitarian leadership, made Iowa SHARES into a statewide campaign... more |
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2017 | Bishop Richard E. PatesThe Most Reverend Richard E. Pates, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, received the 2017 Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award for his leadership in confronting hunger at home and abroad, and especially for his role building international understanding as Chairman of the Committee on International Justice & Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops... more
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2016 | Rev. Joan Fumetti and Ron De WeerdRev. Joan Fumetti and Ron De Weerd received the 2016 Iowa SHARES Award for their leadership role in building the Iowa Foods Resource Bank (FRB) program into the leading element of one of the most dynamic and innovative agricultural assistance programs in America... more |
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2015 | Rev. Russ MelbyReverend Russ Melby, a long-time Iowa organizer of Church World Service CROP Hunger Walks, received the third annual Iowa SHARES Award in 2015. From 1984 until his retirement in 2014, Rev. Melby involved almost 500,000 Iowans, who together raised over 12 million dollars to alleviate hunger... more |
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2014 | Merry FredrickMerry Fredrick, former executive director for 15 years of Self-Help International, an Iowa organization that works to help people in Africa and Latin America improve their lives through education, empowerment and agriculture, has exemplified leadership in fighting global hunger... more |
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2013 | Lucille Morgan WilsonLucille Morgan Wilson, received the first Iowa SHARES award in 2013 for organizing events around hunger issues in Des Moines. She organized the Des Moines Area Hunger Hike in 1969, which strives to increase community consciousness and concern about local and world-wide hunger and its root causes... more
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