World in Watertown Calls for 2025 Unity Award Nominations Ahead of Annual MLK Unity Breakfast

World in Watertown Chair Xin Peng (left) presents the Watertown Refugee Support Group with the 2024 Unity Award

WATERTOWN, MA – Do you have an unsung hero in your Watertown life? Perhaps your hero is an individual, or a group of folks, who have worked hard to make our community more welcoming and inclusive, and to ensure fair and equal treatment for all who live or work in Watertown?

If you know of a person or a group who might fit this description, now is the time to recognize and thank them for their work! Each year at Watertown’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity Breakfast, the World in Watertown presents its Unity Award, to honor unsung heroes who are quietly making extraordinary contributions to our community. Past recipients include teachers and youth workers, as well as folks who support newly-arrived refugees, address issues of food insecurity, promote peace and improved cross-cultural relationships, foster racial understanding, and so much more. 

Unity Award nominees may be individuals or groups, and should meet the following criteria:

  • The nominee should be a Watertown resident, someone who works in Watertown, an organization based in Watertown, or one that supports Watertown residents.
  • Demonstrated a commitment to the foundational principles of racial, social, and economic justice;
  • Supported the human rights of all people;
  • Operated with a vision of equity and inclusion;
  • Contributed to the Watertown community in concrete ways within the 2024 calendar year. (And if your nominee is an employee of a city department or private agency, their contributions should be seen as being above and beyond the work they are paid to do.)

Please share this request among your other communities. If needed, more information can be found at https://www.unitybreakfast.org, or directly email [email protected]. You can also sign up to be a Unity Breakfast volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHfTVE08UymfhDPP24VgQmVoHaypTrDjl3EY5Qz8ehzK53Qg/viewform. Join us and be a part of the efforts to bring Watertown’s largest civil rights-focused event back to an in-person format for the first time since the pandemic.

Thank you for helping to recognize your hero!



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