Founder’s Award

The Founder’s Award will be granted each spring to one or more high school juniors or graduating seniors in honor of the co-founders of Bridges, Ginger and Geoff Worden; the first Executive Director, Ellen Maher; the first Board of Trustees; and early volunteers.

The award will be given to those individuals who have faithfully and effectively engaged with fellow students to support the work of Bridges and who have proven to be a friend to the homeless with whom we are in community.  These individuals will also exhibit traits, which in the opinion of the Bridges Board of Trustees, will enable them to continue to thoughtfully and lovingly touch the world in important and meaningful ways.

In honor of the recipient(s), Bridges will send a child from a Newark shelter to a summer camp program.  Bridges will present a physical award at the recipient’s school at a mutually agreed upon time and place. 

Applications for the Founder’s Award are available at www.bridgesoutreach.org/Forms and must be submitted by the student’s advisor by April 1st.  Students receiving the award will receive public recognition in local and school publications. 

The Ellen Maher Volunteer Award 2004 to 2010

The Ellen Maher Volunteer Award was given to an individual who faithfully and effectively engaged with fellow students to support the work of Bridges and who also proved him or herself to be a friend to the homeless, with whom we are in community. These individuals exhibited traits, which in the opinion of the Bridges Board of Trustees, make it likely that he or she will continue to thoughtfully and lovingly touch the world in important and meaningful ways.

Students receiving the award will receive public recognition in the BRIDGES newsletter and ideally in local newspapers. A framed certificate of honor will also be presented by a BRIDGES representative.

Past Recipients