I've been humbled as well as privileged to receive considerable recognition over the years. But I've always pointed out that these awards are really shared with the wonderful, high-commitment friends, students, and collaborators with whom I've worked. Thus, any credit or appreciation that is given, is given to all my partners.

Social Innovator of the Year, Economic Self-Reliance Conference, BYU, 2005.

Outstanding Teacher Award, Marriott School MBA Track Award, BYU, 2005.

Partner, United Nations International Year for Microcredit, 2005.

Viva Sion! Award (Long Live Zion Award), Eagle Condor Network, Chiclayo, Peru, 2004.

Outstanding Strategies for Developing Socially Responsible Students, National Net Impact Association, New York City, 2004.

Hero Award presented to our NGO, Chasqui Humanitarian, a charity I co-founded in my EMBA ethics course, presented by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge for our 5 years of international service in Peru and Bolivia, 2003.

Financial Prizes: $25,000 from the Gay Family Foundation, plus $7,500 for excellence from the Crystal Springs Foundation, to H.E.L.P. International, our student NGO, 2003.

Best Paper Award: Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Business Division, 2003.

Leadership Award. One of twelve LDS leaders chosen in its first annual recognition event from among Meridian's 200,000 readers in 170 countries, Meridian Magazine, 2003.

Best non-profit startup/MicroBusiness Mentors, a $1000 prize my students and I won in 2003 for having the best social entrepreneurship business plan, Marriott School Center for Entrepreneurship, 2003.

Award for Humanitarian Service, Presented by the Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah, 2002.

Plaque of Appreciation for 3 years of BYU social entrepreneurs laboring to build sustainable strategies for the poor in Central America, OEF (Women's Economic Organization) El Salvador, 2002.

Our BYU delegation was recognized in New York City for having the most successful microenterprise program at any university in the world: Developing new courses, 6 annual conferences, a new journal, research, publications, student mentoring, and NGO startups. Microcredit Summit +5, New York City, 2002.

Finalist, Center for Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition ($500), BYU, 2002.

Recognition for 2 years of "Outstanding Humanitarian Service" to Salvadorian victims of the 2001 earthquake, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 2002.

Nominated for a "Fast 50" Award as one of the top "movers and shakers" among Fast Company Magazine's worldwide readers, 2002.

Establishment of the Woodworth Social Entrepreneurship Prize: At the 4th Annual BYU Microenterprise Conference held April 5-7, 2001 it was announced that the Marriott School and microcredit organizations around the world had joined together to create the Warner P. Woodworth Social Entrepreneurship Prize to recognize outstanding leadership in the field of microfinance. It will be an annual award that includes a Third World craft product as recognition, as well as several thousand dollar cash prize to be donated in the winner's name to any nonprofit humanitarian organization of his or her choice. In the spirit of becoming a global change agent, the Prize will designate individuals who have truly transformed the world by their personal sacrifice, radical strategies, and long-term vision.

Received the First South High Alumni Honor Roll Award for Outstanding Community Service. Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.

Honored at BYU's Mentored Learning Environments Recognition Banquet sponsored by the Office of Research and Creative Activities, 2001.

Nominated as a Torch Bearer for the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics.

Recipient of the 2001 Senator Reed Smoot Outstanding Award as Provo City's Entrepreneur-of-the-year, supported by the Chamber of Commerce.

Award for Humanitarian Service. Presented by the Program in Religious Studies at the Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah, 2000.

Humanitarian Achievement Award. Presented by the Chasqui Humanitarian Foundation of the Andes, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000.

Our Heroes Award. Presented by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Utah Chapter, for the 15 year efforts of the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000.

Distinguished Service Award. Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Presentation held in Cedar City, Utah, 2000.

Recipient of the first "Lowell Bennion Humanitarian Award," Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999.

Circle of Honor Award, given by the BYU Student Honor Association for being an "exceptional example of honor, integrity and commitment to Christ-centered principles," 1999.

Recipient of the Distinguished Lecture Award in Honor of Dr. Glen M. Vernon, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1998.

Institutional Action Plan drafted by Gary Woller and me was one of only three plans of over a hundred submitted by universities around the world to be honored at the Microcredit Summit of Councils in 1998.

The "Good Samaritan Award," given to Enterprise Mentors International, the NGO I founded in 1990. This recognition is given by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, founded by Father Robert Sirico, a Paulist priest. Our humanitarian program was one of only ten awards out of over 700 organizations considered in 1997.

Honored as BYU's humanitarian at a string instrument concert, the Firebird Quartet, that performed a benefit recital to aid Mali, West Africa, at BYU, 1997.

My writings were featured as a source of material for a new dramatic production, Gadianton, produced by the BYU Department of Theatre and film, written by Eric Samuelsen, directed by Bob Nelson, 1997. The play lays out major ethical and economic dilemmas, as old as events in Book of Mormon times, as clear as Joseph Smith's visions of leadership and stewardship, as modern as the cruelty of mass corporate downsizings in America during the 1990s.

The Distinguished David O. McKay Lecture for 1997 at BYU–Hawaii was based on my book Working Toward Zion, "The Law of Scarcity vs. the Law of Consecration."

Working Toward Zion, my book was honored as 1997 best seller at Media Play, Inc.

Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award, BYU, 1995.

Community Hero Nomination—service award, Atlanta Summer Olympic Torch Relay, 1995.

Award for Outstanding International Service--plaque presented by BYU Student Service Association, 1993.

Outstanding Faculty Award--chosen by faculty of the Marriott School for the year 1989.

Second Place, Contemporary Issues Articles, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 1987.

Outstanding Teacher of the Year--chosen by graduating students, Brigham Young University, 1986.

Corporate Teaching Award--Graduate School of Management, Brigham Young University, 1984.

"We may have to repent in this generation, not for the violent actions of bad people, but for the inaction of good people who have the notion that time will cure all evils."

     --- Martin Luther King, Jr.