The World of Children Award was created in 1996, when Founder Harry Leibowitz decided that the selfless heroes working to assist vulnerable children all around the world deserved to be recognized with a prestigious award.   He imagined the World of Children Award to set the gold standard for child advocacy, and vowed that one day the award would be as well known and coveted as the Nobel Prize.  Right from the start, Harry wanted children to be actively involved so he held a contest, inviting children to share drawings and pictures that might symbolize this new Award.   A young boy in Ohio, who had been badly abused and neglected early in his life, drew the image you see today at the center of the logo – the small child, cracked and broken, yet with a bright red heart.   The child explained to Harry that the drawing told his personal story, saying “I may be broken, but I still have a heart.”  Harry embraced this simple message, and this simple drawing, as a core element of the World of Children Award.  Later in 1998, the logo was completed with the addition of the globe and a ring of children encircling the original drawing, adding the notion that children everywhere share this same hopeful story.

In 2011, our logo was updated and now has a cleaner, more contemporary design.