Blinknow Foundation

Blinknow Foundation

After months of nominations and an online audience vote, CNN named its 2015 Hero of the Year on Tuesday at an annual awards show in New York. New Jersey native Maggie Doyne, who led efforts to build a women's center, school and children's home in Nepal's Kopila Valley, will receive $100,000 for the organization she founded, the BlinkNow Foundation. Doyne also will receive $10,000 for being chosen as a 2015 Top 10 Hero.

"I am so incredibly honored to accept this award on behalf of my little heroes at Kopila. I draw all my inspiration from them," Doyne said at Tuesday's ceremony.

Watch this year's Top 10 Heroes and the presentation of the 2015 Hero of the Year on CNN's star-studded awards show, "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," On Sunday, December 6, at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.

Since 2006, CNN's Peabody Award-winning, Emmy-nominated Heroes franchise has profiled more than 250 Heroes and received more than 50,000 nominations from more than 100 countries. Ref. CNN