Drucker Nonprofit Award Winners Chosen

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of the 2011 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.

Direct Relief International, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based humanitarian organization that provides essential medicines, health supplies and equipment to improve the health of people affected by poverty, disaster and civil unrest, is the recipient of the $100,000 first-place prize. This year’s second-place winner (to receive $7,500) is Beyond Shelter, a Los Angeles-based organization, and the third-place winner (to receive $5,000) is the Mona Foundation, a Kirkland, Wash.-based organization.