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title: 2026 Grunin Prize for Law & Social Entrepreneurship Awarded at NYU Law
description: The Grunin for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law has awarded the 2026 Grunin Prize.
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June 08th, 2026 | [Partner Updates](https://blog.gruninfoundation.org/tag/partner-updates)
# 2026 Grunin Prize for Law & Social Entrepreneurship Awarded at NYU Law
**by [grunin](https://blog.gruninfoundation.org/author/grunin)**
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The [Grunin for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law](https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/grunin-social-entrepreneurship) has awarded the 2026 Grunin Prize. The Grunin Prize aims to reward the innovation, potential impact, and replicability and/or scalability of projects and solutions developed by lawyers to advance the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. The Grunin Prize was awarded on June 2, 2026 as part of the [Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond](https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/grunin-social-entrepreneurship/events/2026Conference), co-hosted at NYU School of Law by the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship and the Impact Investing Legal Working Group.
The 2026 Grunin Prize was awarded to Onboarding Nature Toolkit & Movement, developed through initial collaboration of [B Lab Benelux](https://www.bcorpbenelux.com/), [Earth Law Center](https://www.earthlawcenter.org/), and [Nyenrode Business University](https://www.nyenrode.nl/en). The toolkit is four governance models—Nature as Inspiration, Advisor, Director, Shareholder—highlighting companies that have embedded nature governance within their corporate structures to give nature a voice in strategy, decisions and accountability. [Read more about these incredible teams and their winning project](https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/grunin-social-entrepreneurship/grunin-prize/2026).
The 2026 Grunin Prize for Sustained Commitment was awarded to Jonathan Ng, Co-Managing Partner, Mission Driven Counsel LLP. Johnathan advises social enterprises, NGOs, and government entities on complex cross-border legal, governance, and funding issues, with a focus on donor compliance, outcomes-based funding, and innovative finance structures, particularly involving concessional grant capital. [Read more about Johnathan Ng](https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/grunin-social-entrepreneurship/grunin-prizes/grunin-prize-sustained-commitment).
You can also learn about all of the [incredible 2026 Grunin Prize finalists](https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/grunin-social-entrepreneurship/grunin-prize/2026).
This is the 9th annual Grunin Prize awarded by the Grunin Center. The mission of the Grunin Center is to enhance the community of lawyers and legal institutions engaged in social entrepreneurship and impact investing and to accelerate their effective participation in these fields. To fulfill this mission, the Grunin Center *educates* students and practicing lawyers about legal issues in the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing; *disseminates* knowledge and legal research about law and policy developments in this field; and *collaborates* with other field-building organizations, universities and research centers.
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