By Julissa Catalan
The Viscardi Center, a network of nonprofit organizations providing a wide range of services that empower adults and children with disabilities, announced today that its President and CEO, John D. Kemp, will receive the 2014 Dole Leadership Prize next month at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.
The prize is awarded annually to an individual or group whose public-service leadership inspires others. Kempwho is the first disability leader to receive the distinctionwas personally selected by former Senator Robert Dole and joins the ranks of other prestigious recipients including Nelson Mandela, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former U.S. Senators Howard Baker and George McGovern, former Polish President Lech Walesa, Congressman John Lewis and former President George H.W. Bush.
