The grand prize winner of the 2016 Hope Awards for Effective Compassion is Beacon Hill in Anchorage, Alaska. The Northwest Region winner—and our first finalist ever from Alaska—is a foster care/adoption community center.
Beacon Hill received 37 percent of the votes WORLD readers cast, earning the $15,000 grand prize. Other regional winners, picking up $2,000 each, were Advocates for Community Transformation in Dallas, K.I.D.S. Christian Music Center in Birmingham, Ala., New Day Foster Home in Beijing, and The Oaks Academy in Indianapolis.
WORLD’s Jamie Dean (left) presents the grand prize to Beacon Hill executive director Charity Carmody at The Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Antipoverty Forum in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17.
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Home for the helpless
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