Spring Cleaning

Community-powered social innovation.

Spring Cleaning
Community-powered social innovation.
Coming Soon
After 28 years of awarding nonprofit innovation—“change that creates a new dimension of performance,” as Drucker defined it—we will soon launch the next generation of our tool for nonprofit leadership effectiveness. Spring Cleaning is a community-powered workshop event dedicated to nonprofit management and based on Drucker’s discipline of planned abandonment.
“To call abandonment an ‘opportunity’ may come as a surprise,” Drucker wrote. “Yet planned, purposeful abandonment of the old and of the unrewarding is a prerequisite to successful pursuit of the new and highly promising. Above all, abandonment is the key to innovation—both because it frees the necessary resources and because it stimulates the search for the new that will replace the old.”
Get updates on the Spring Cleaning launch.
28 Years of Drucker Prize Winners
2019
LIMBS International
2018
myAgro
2017
We Care Solar
2015
Kids V Cancer
2014
HopeLab
2013
Project Red,
Boston Medical Center
2012
I AM A STAR,
American Refugee Committee
2010
Safe Families for Children,
Lydia Home Association
2009
Center for Court Innovation
2007
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
2005
The Landscape Bank, Keep Alachua County Beautiful
2004
Wheel Get There, Minnesota Valley Action Council
2002
Crafts with Conviction, Crayons to Computers
2001
The Eloy Model, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
2000
Peer Educator Training Program, SAGE Project
1999
California Transportation Training Institute, California Emergency Foodlink
1998
Times Square Jobs Training Program, Common Ground Community
1997
Computer Clubhouse, The Computer Museum
1996
Second Family Program, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
1995
ECO-O.K. Banana Project, Rainforest Alliance
1994
Community Schools, Children’s Aid Society
1993
Project Teamwork, Center for Study of Sport in Society
1992
Parish Partnership Transitional Housing Program, Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri
1991
Living in Family Environments, Judson Center