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Event

Tune in on June 1, 2022 at 9am CEST (3am ET) for a virtual discussion featuring the world’s leading environmental scientists—including Heinz Award winners Gretchen Daily (2010), Paul Anastas (2006), and James Balog (2010). During this hour-long event, they will join four other sustainability trailblazers to talk about how to tackle the planetary crises, answer questions, and share solutions to climate change, protecting biodiversity, and preventing pollution.

Press Release

From Championing Environmental Justice and Regenerative Agriculture to Removing Economic Barriers to Economic Prosperity and Entrepreneurship, Recipients of 26th Heinz Awards Are Leaders of Transformative Change

PITTSBURGH, November 18, 2021 — The Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 26th Heinz Awards, which will present unrestricted cash awards totaling $1.5 million to seven Americans for outstanding contributions in the categories of the Arts, the Economy and the Environment.

25th Anniversary

To commemorate the first 25 years of the Heinz Awards, we want to acknowledge and honor the accomplishments of the remarkable awardees who made our journey together so impactful. We celebrate the difference they continue to make in affecting and inspiring the lives, and lifting the spirits, of so many.  

In this book, you will find brief highlights for each of the 151 recipients we have honored over this past quarter-century.