The Niagara Foundation is a nonprofit organization,[1] founded in 2004,[2] dedicated to the mission of fostering civic conversations and sustained relationships between people of different cultures and faiths, and part of the Alliance for Shared Values.
[3][4][5] Niagara has branches across the Midwest including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Iowa, but is headquartered in Chicago.
[6] On October 3, 2013, the Niagara Foundation branch in Des Moines, Iowa held a Turkish American business development forum.
[14] Soydan is on the board of advisors to the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago[15] and Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
The awards were founded in 2006[31] and have honored the Chicago Tribune,[32] Mark Owen Webb (professor of philosophy at Texas Tech University), Henry Bienen (President Emeritus, Northwestern University),[33] Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos,[34] and US Secretary of Education (previously CEO, Chicago Public Schools) Arne Duncan.