Grunin Prize for Sustained Commitment

The Grunin Prize for Sustained Commitment Winner aims to honor lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to these ideals over their careers.

The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship is made possible through a generous endowment from NYU School of Law graduates Jay Grunin ’67 and Linda Kalmanowitz Grunin ’67, and the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation. Jay and Linda have dedicated their philanthropic endeavors to investing in innovative projects that have measurable impacts creating meaningful, transformative change.

2026 Grunin Prize for Sustained Commitment Winner

Jonathan Ng, Co-Managing Partner, Mission Driven Counsel LLP

Jonathan Ng is Co-Managing Partner of Mission Driven Counsel LLP, a law firm specializing in global development. MDC was founded by former senior lawyers from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to carry on the work of foreign assistance. He 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.

Previously, Jonathan spent more than nine years at USAID in Washington, D.C. and most recently, as a Foreign Service Officer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Earlier in his career, he was a project finance attorney at White & Case in New York and the first Global Legal Director at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. While at Ashoka, he worked closely with social entrepreneurs and developed the idea for what later became the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Law. He also co-developed and taught the inaugural course on social enterprise and the law at Georgetown University Law Center.