The Manhattan Institute's Richard Cornuelle Award for Social Entrepreneurship
GOSO President and CEO Mark Goldsmith was recently awarded the Richard Cornuelle Award for Social Entrepreneurship by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research for his role in the founding of Getting Out and Staying Out. The award is directed toward those with original ideas brought to fruition with predominantly private support. It recognizes individuals who have founded organizations effectively providing services addressing key social challenges: increasing opportunity for higher education for the disadvantaged; improving access to health care for those of low-income; helping the elderly "age in place", not in institutions; providing vocational education for urban high school graduates lacking job skills; job placement and mentoring for newly-released prisoners. . Download a pdf of the announcement of 2012 winners

Mutual of America Community Service Award
In 2010, GOSO was awarded the Mutual of America Community Service Award for our visionary partnerships with the Department of Education, the Department of Corrections, and City University of New York. Mutual of America Life Insurance Company created this national competition to highlight the important contributions that nonprofit organizations, in partnership with public, private and other social sector organizations, make to society. As part of the award, Mutual of America has created a moving video about GOSO that features interviews with current GOSO participants, alumni, staff and volunteers. Download a pdf of the press release