at Harvard University
Please join us to celebrate Hope, Community, and Human Excellence by honoring heroes in high-impact social innovation.
Harvard University
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Sponsored by Hope Collaborative and Divine Will Foundation with Peoples Shores and Science for Society.
Registration Begins Thursday, May 17
Hope Collaborative and Divine Will Foundation with Meketa Investments, People Shores, and Science for Society are excited to host the 2018 Human Excellence Awards conference on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 from 8:30am to 4:30pm at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts The conference will be followed by a post-conference dinner honoring our 2018 Human Excellence and Corporate Courage awardees that evening.
This year, we are honoring powerful social entrepreneurs and innovators who deliver on a vision of higher civilization and a better society. The conference features powerful innovators in education, global healthcare, innovative resource distribution, psychological health, community health, and wellbeing.
The day's sessions are designed to celebrate and promote the powerful leadership capacities of outstanding social entrepreneurs addressing mankind’s critical social mission issues. We will be featuring legendary leaders in healthcare, education, essential services, and leadership education for populations living in poverty. The conference seeks to understand, support, and promote the skills and qualities of these leaders who are capable and committed to delivering lasting and durable change.
We are also honoring the power and courage of corporations that deploy resources and energies to invest in solutions that advance the cause of humanity in solving certain mission-critical problems with our Stories of Corporate Courageawards. Please stay tuned for announcements around these awards in the coming weeks.
The conference audience includes youth leaders from youth development programs to participate in the day and discuss their process of becoming impactful, connected leaders making a difference. We expect to have 75 middle school, young adult, and millennial leaders in attendance. We will be broadcasting youth leaders in from the United States and overseas, including top youth advocates from leading youth advocacy organizations.
Our goals for the day are to 1) Honor leaders and corporations making a difference as a model for a new generation and 2) Empower youth leaders with leadership skills in social impact and conversations that connect youth with companies doing powerful work for mentorship.
Devotion to high principles and the good of all humanity is a central recipe for creating new forms of civilization. These qualities drive fulfillment and satisfaction. They bring us to better selves and energies that researchers have shown can create transcendent capacities and outputs.
Our Keynote Speaker
at the 2018 Human Excellence Awards:

Vision of Sanjit "Bunker" Roy
Bunker Roy has brought his vision of a world transformed to over 3.5 Million Ted Talk viewers, and to audiences worldwide who have learned from this visionary teacher, innovator, and social entrepreneur.
Mr. Roy sees opportunity and strength in poor communities where others see only despair and strife. His work includes empowering rural woman and grandmothers to be solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors--a roadmap to income and impact that is startling in its transformative capacities.
He started to make his barefoot mark 40 years ago when he founded the Barefoot College in India to support self-sufficiency for rural communities by focusing people on their innate capacities for working in industries as complex as solar energy, water, education, health care, women's empowerment and wasteland development.
Mr. Roy's organization has trained grandmothers from Africa and the Himalayan region to be solar engineers, so they can bring electricity to their remote villages, as an example of his widespread impact.
Most of the school's students are illiterate women and men. Today Barefoot College has expanded his organization's footprint globally with "barefoot campuses" in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
His spirit and energy are powerful and infectious. We are excited to have him join us to celebrate top men and women--serving humanity with solutions that are designed to help end poverty.
We are excited to have you--our partners and supporters--join us that day too.
Registration begins Wednesday, May 10, 2018