Last night 2025 Soup’s On! Co-Chairs Isabell and Trey Higgnbotham and Buddy Jordan along with The Stewpot Executive Director Brenda Snitzer and The Stewpot Alliance President Bea Njuguna revealed plans for The Stewpot’s upcoming 50th anniversary year.
To commemorate the decades of working with the homeless, the theme will be “50 Years Of Loving Our Neighbors,” reflecting The Stewpot’s “long tradition of love in action.”
In addition to unveiling the year’s logo, they also displayed a piece of collaborative art based on the theme that resulted from 16 of The Stewpot Art Programs artists contributing paintings of hearts for the piece.
As Brenda said, “Just like in our communication, each individual is unique and makes its own valuable contribution to the greater whole.”
The celebratory year will officially kick off at Soup’s On! on Monday, January 27, at the Thompson Hotel with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/author Nicholas Kristof. Over the years, Nicholas has traveled to more than 150 countries giving a voice to the voiceless, inspiring people to drive change, take on challenges and make a difference.
As a result, he has been a best-selling author and garnered such awards as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Anne Frank Award and the Fred Cuny Award for Prevention of Armed Conflict.
His latest book, “Chasing Hope,” which was released in May, chronicles his years covering people and events around the world including “century-defining events: the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan and the wave of addiction and despair that swept through his hometown and a broad swath of working-class America.”
Admitting that he is a self-described progressive, “The Washington Post” described the “New York Times” columnist as having rewritten opinion journalism “with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict.”
Harvard classmate Jeffrey Toobin described him as “the Indiana Jones of our generation of journalists.”
BTW, that first Pulitzer Prize was presented to Nicholas and his wife/journalist Sheryl WuDunn for their reporting on the pro-democracy student movement and the related Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. It was the first time that a husband and wife had won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Soup’s On! sponsorships are available here with individual tickets being on sale in December.
* Graphic credit: The Stewpot ** Art credit: The Stewpot Art Program ***Photo provided by Stewpot Alliance