Above: Manor Ink vies for a $5,000 innovation prize at the Sullivan County Nonprofit Leadership Summit on March 6. Photo by Manor Ink.
Manor Ink, a nonprofit youth-run print and online newspaper that covers Livingston Manor, began printing less than a year ago, but it has already won its first award. On March 6, at the 2013 Sullivan County Nonprofit Leadership Summit, the paper won the 2013 Nonprofit Innovation Award, which comes with a $5,000 prize.
Gem Helper, Tyler Young and Nathaniel DePaul, all staffers at Manor Ink and students at Livingston Manor Central School, represented the newspaper at the awards ceremony.
Left: Innovation is looking up in Sullivan County. Helper, Young and DePaul present a slideshow about Manor Ink at the summit. Photo by Lisa Lyons.
DePaul, who is Manor Ink's editor, wrote on the Manor Ink website that he and his fellow students were "overjoyed" to win:
More than the cash prize, this award is given to the organization which most changes their community for the better, so this meant a lot to Manor Ink. Out of the 13 groups that applied, Manor Ink won, despite how small and young the news outlet and the staff is. Manor Ink staff reported that they are truly excited, and will use the money to make the community and the newspaper even better.
According to Mid-Hudson News, the $5,000 prize was funded by Sullivan County Renaissance, the Monticello Racing Club, and the Nonprofit Leadership Summit, and will be split between the Livingston Manor Library, Manor Ink, and the Community Reporting Alliance, a nonprofit that funds and manages the youth newspaper.
Editor's note: The Community Reporting Alliance funded the Watershed Post's Faces of the Flood Project and serves as the Watershed Post's nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
