09/21/2026
Young people are not waiting for permission to solve the problems they see around them. They are building organisations, serving their communities and creating solutions where support is needed most.
The Non-Profit Award recognises youth-led registered nonprofits that have already demonstrated initial success and are ready to grow their programmes, strengthen their organisations and expand their long-term impact. 

Choosing those organisations requires judges who understand what it takes to move an idea from the grassroots into something sustainable.

This year’s panel brings together that range of experience & together, this panel brings experience from across the ecosystem, from grassroots action and youth leadership to capital, networks and organisational growth.
🧩 Tommy Loper - Vice President for Network Strategy & Enterprise Development at the Aspen Institute, with nearly two decades of experience building leadership initiatives, networks and collaborations that connect people and ideas around shared challenges.
🌱 Katie Fitzgerald Katie Bartel Fitzgerald - Director of the Aspen Challenge, supporting young leaders to turn ideas into action and create solutions to pressing social challenges.
🤝 🤝 Lyel Resner - Visiting Faculty at MIT Morningside Academy of Design, where he teaches Impact Entrepreneurship and Responsible Innovation. He brings deep experience across technology, social innovation and economic mobility, having led public interest technology programmes and supported founders and investors to build more responsible organisations.
đź’ˇ Alexandra BĂzková - Director at GLOBSEC, Impact investor and board leader working across investment, governance, philanthropy and innovation to connect capital and ideas to public impact.
🦾 Hugo Esteban Rojas Muñoz — Founder of Humanos3D and our 2025 Non-Profit Award Winner, returning as a judge after building an organisation that has delivered more than 400 personalised prosthetic devices to people with disabilities across rural Colombia.
