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awards program supportprofile in courage awardthe john f. Kennedy profile in courage award recognizes a public official (or officials) at the federal, state, or local level whose actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of profiles in courage, president kennedy's 1957 pulitzer prize-winning book. The 2017 profile in courage award was awarded to former president barack obama in recognition of how he upheld the highest standards of dignity, decency and integrity, serving not just as a political leader, but a moral leader, offering hope and healing to the country and providing young men and women of all backgrounds with an example they can emulate in their own lives. The announcement of president barack obama as the 2017 profile in courage award winner reached nearly 1. 5 billion people all over the world via twitter, newspapers and blog posts. The foundation gained more than 1,000 social media followers after the announcement and the related social media posts outperformed other posts in 2017 and had a combined reach of more than 1 million on facebook and 7. 4 million on twitter with nearly 10,000 retweets. It generated over 9,000 instances of earned and unearned media related to jfk100 events. Media coverage of the 2017 profile in courage award broke all library records for views and media mentions including a live broadcast of the 2017 profile in courage award ceremony which received 1. 2 million live viewers on msnbc and a couple million more on social media via the library, new york times, washington post, and other news media. Profile in courage essay contest for high school studentsthe profile in courage essay contest challenges students to write an original and creative essay that demonstrates an understanding of political courage as described by john f. Kennedy in profiles in courage. The 2017 essay contest featured a centennial-related topic and increased scholarship awards. Instead of using the 1956 publication date as a cut-off for acts of political courage, students could profile u. S. Elected officials who served during or after 1917. The top twenty-five students who received scholarship awards included a one-time first-place prize of $20,000 and eighteen centennial scholarship prizes of $100 each. As in years past, the second-place winner receives $1,000 and five finalists each receive $500. Three of the centennial scholarships were awarded honorable mentions. The 2017 winner was daud shad, a senior at mountain lakes high school in mountain lakes, new jersey, whose essay profiled william moore mcculloch, a republican u. S. Congressman from ohio who in 1963, risked his reputation, career, and standing in the republican party when he agreed to support civil rights legislation introduced by president kennedy. The foundation received 2,248 essay submissions from students all over the world, a 9% increase over 2016. A record-breaking 985 teachers nominated their students for the award. The program had a digital marketing and social media reach of over 1. 2 million, and a print marketing reach of nearly 404,000 people. 2017 new frontier awardsthe new frontier awards are presented annually by the foundation and harvard university's institute of politics to honor two young americans, one elected official and one non-elected individual, under the age of 40 whose work demonstrates the importance and impact of public service, in the spirit of president kennedy. The non-elected recipient for 2017 was may boeve, executive director of the international climate change campaign 350. Org, and the elected official was congressman carlos curbelo (r-fl) for his work to find bipartisan solutions to climate change. For the first time in 2017, the foundation developed a digital outreach campaign inviting the public to submit new frontier award nominations. The campaign included a launch email from and a video narrated by jack schlossberg as well as a series of facebook and twitter posts promoting the opportunity to make a nomination. The video reached 300,000 people and was viewed 10,000 times; the campaign saw a social reach of over 500,000; the email blast was opened by 16,000 with 1,300 click-throughs; and the foundation saw an increase of public nominations from 5 in 2016 to 85 in 2017.