2024 Crandall Challenge
Citation Winners
John Campbell, WG’78
New York, NY
John Campbell’s Wharton education provided the basis for a very successful career on Wall Street, which in turn provided the opportunity to learn the lesson that ‘some of the greatest contributions to bettering society must be done on the individual,
personal level. John has implemented that lesson by working with the Achilles Track Club, which provides partners to accompany blind and other disabled runners and athletes – John has run in the New York Marathon with a blind running partner, and has helped a group of disabled climbers to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He has taught at universities in Ireland and China, and worked with an NGO in Palestine, to raise the understanding of US Capital Markets and ethics. More recently, he has been actively involved in a leadership role with an organization which provides corrective surgeries for children who require major reconstruction, and has demonstrated his personal commitment by anonymously donating one of his kidneys.
John Edwards, WG’72
Sydney, Australia
Deputy Chair and Director of Australian Business Volunteers (ABV), a 40+ year old Not for Profit organization based out of Sydney, carrying out a range of skilled volunteering projects in communities in South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. Projects are generally sponsored by large corporates or government Aid Agencies and resourced by a network of skilled and experienced volunteers, focused on building business skills in developing country communities (eg indigenous communities in mining areas), or business focussed recovery in communities affected by natural disasters (eg rebuilding multiple communities after the devastation of the huge bushfire and flood catastrophes in parts of Australia in 2020-21 that destroyed many towns and communities). The Board members are all volunteers and I have actively worked with them as both Acting Chair and Deputy Chair to successfully rebuild the amazing work of this NFP after the near crippling impact of Covid on its operations. Projects are now running at a record level, and growing in size and significance at a demanding rate.