Awards, Nov 14, 2002

The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas:

Arts. The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Trust (New York) has announced the recipient of the 2002 award for achievement in the performing arts. Lloyd Richards, professor emeritus at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.), is a Tony Award-winning director who was honored for his contributions to modern theater. The Gish Prize is awarded by a committee of arts leaders, has no application process, and carries a cash award of $200,000.

The ArtCouncil (San Francisco) has announced the recipients of its 2002 awards, which provide $10,000 unrestricted grants to exceptional artists living and working in San Francisco. The winners: Josh Greene, Julio Cesar Morales, Alice Shaw, Kathryn Spence, and Benji Whalen.

Blindness. The American Foundation for the Blind (New York) has presented its annual Migel Medals. Robert J. Winn received the 2002 Professional Award for his tenure as president of the Hadley School for the Blind (Winnetka, Ill.), an international educational organization that serves blind and visually impaired students, their family members, and professionals and paraprofessionals in the field of blindness. Lawrence A. Scadden, former senior program director of the Program for Persons with Disabilities of the National Science Foundation (Arlington, Va.), received the 2002 Volunteer Award for educating policy makers and industry leaders about the importance of designing technology that is accessible to disabled people. The foundation has also presented the Helen Keller Achievement Award in Corporate Philanthropy to Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of the American International Group (New York), in recognition of his support of blindness and other disability organizations through the Starr Foundation.

Children. The National Child Welfare League of America (Washington) has presented its 2002 Community Collaboration for Children, Youth, and Families Award to the St. Rose Family Reunification Program (Milwaukee). The program is a collaboration between the St. Rose Youth and Family Center, several Wisconsin government agencies, and seven correctional facilities that helps incarcerated mothers maintain better relationships with their children.

Civil liberties. The Detention Watch Network (Baltimore) has honored individuals for their commitment to serving and advocating the civil rights of people held at U.S. immigration detention centers. Jim Haggerty, former national director of detention services at Catholic Legal Immigration Network (New York), received the Lifetime Achievement Award; Subhash Kateel of Desis Rising Up and Moving (Jackson Heights, N.Y.), the Award for Outstanding Volunteer Work; and Jean Pierre Kamwa of Espoir and Safe Horizon/Solace (Jackson Heights, N.Y.), the Award for Outstanding Community Advocacy and Leadership.

Fund raising. The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (Falls Church, Va.) has presented its 2002 Si Seymour National Award to R. Glen Smiley, corporate vice president for philanthropy at the Henry Ford System (Detroit), for his long-time work in health-care fund raising. Mr. Smiley has worked in a fund-raising capacity at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Foundation, and Duke University (Durham, N.C.), and has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.

Health care. The California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland) has announced the 25 fellows who will participate in its Health-Care Leadership Program over the next two years. The fellows, who will attend seminars led by health-care experts and faculty members associated with the Anderson School of Management at the U. of California at Los Angeles, are:

-Joshua S. Adler, director of ambulatory practices at the U. of California at San Francisco’s Department of Medicine.

-Peter E. Alperin, medical director at Brown and Toland (San Francisco).

-Ruth V. Bundy, manager of occupational health at U. of California at Irvine.

-Sylvia Gates Carlisle, medical director at Health Plan of San Joaquin (Stockton, Calif.).

-Michelle B. Caughey, physician in chief at the Permanente Medical Group (San Francisco).

-Ziad S. Dabuni, medical director and president of West Covina Medical Group, Eastland Medical Group (West Covina, Calif.).

-Diane Dooley, chair of the pediatric department at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (Martinez, Calif.).

-Krystin E. Dozier, clinical-integration director at Sutter Health (Sacramento).

-Laura A. Hardy, medical-center manager at La Vida Multi-Specialty Medical Center (Los Angeles).

-Jeffrey A. Hay, medical director, inpatient services at HealthCare Partners Medical Group (Torrance, Calif.).

-Todd Hee, regional medical director at HealthCare Partners Medical Group (Pasadena, Calif.).

-Vickie Y. Height, associate medical director at the United States Postal Service (City of Industry, Calif.).

-Mivic Hirose, associate administrator and associate director of nursing at Laguna Honda Hospital (San Francisco).

-Joel D. Hyatt, assistant associate medical director, clinical services at Southern California Permanente Medical Group (Pasadena).

-Elizabeth C. Johnson, medical director at the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Ocean Park Health Center.

-Gretchen Kunitz, medical director at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Berkeley, Calif.).

-Thomas R. March, associate medical director and pediatrician at Catholic HealthCare West, Woodland Healthcare (Calif.).

-Cindy K. Mayo, chief nurse executive at Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento).

-Eric M. Rudnick, medical director of the emergency department at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Shasta Emergency Medical Group (Redding, Calif.).

-Robert A. Schultz, physician in chief at the Permanente Medical Group (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

-Elizabeth F. Shephard, lead vice president of care management, HealthCare Partners Medical Group (Torrance).

-F. Wells Shoemaker, medical director at Physicians Medical Group (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

-Thomas A. Utecht, director of the emergency department at Community Medical Centers (Fresno, Calif.).

-Christine A. Wachsmuth, associate hospital administrator at San Francisco General Hospital.

-Michael J. White, medical director at Coastal Health Alliance (Point Reyes Station, Calif.).

The Nemours Foundation (Jacksonville, Fla.) has presented the 2002 Alfred I. duPont Award for Excellence in Children’s Health Care to Paul B. Batalden, a professor of pediatric, community, and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School (Hanover, N.H.), who has worked to develop cost-effective, patient-centered, high-quality care. The award is accompanied by a $50,000 prize.

Humanitarianism. Robert S. Lawrence, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore), has been awarded the 2002 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. Mr. Lawrence helped found Physicians for Human Rights (Boston), an organization that documents and helps prosecute human-rights abuses worldwide. The prize, given under the auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (New York) and administered by Johns Hopkins, carries a $15,000 cash prize.

Hunger. America’s Second Harvest (Chicago) has announced the recipients of its 2002 Hunger’s Hope Awards, which honor donors and affiliates who have helped the organization distribute donated food and grocery products nationwide. The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati) received the Donor of the Year Award for its donation of food, monetary support, and emergency assistance to affiliates involved with disaster relief following September 11th. The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan (Flint) received the Excellence in Food Banking Award, and the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank (La.) received the Excellence in Food Rescue Award.

Leadership. The Ford Foundation (New York) has announced the 2002 recipients of the Leadership for a Changing World awards, which honor individuals and teams that have worked to solve social problems in their communities. Each award, given in partnership with the Advocacy Institute (Washington) and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York U., is accompanied by $100,000 to advance the recipient’s work and $30,000 for supporting activities over the next two years. The winners are:

-Marleine M. Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami/Haitian Women of Miami, who organizes services for the Haitian community in Miami and elsewhere in the United States.

-Burlington Community Land Trust (Vt.), a nonprofit organization led by Mary Houghton and Brenda Marion Torpy that offers affordable housing for low- and moderate-income people.

-EVS Communications (Washington), a nonprofit organization led by Eduardo López and Arturo Salcedo Martínez that produces a Spanish-language program that is in a public-service partnership with a local NBC affiliate.

-Fifth Avenue Committee (Brooklyn, N.Y.), through which Brad Lander, Linda Techell, and Michelle de la Uz promote affordable housing and help low-income residents find jobs.

-LeeAnn Hall, executive director, Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (Seattle), a coalition of community-based groups from four states that represent disenfranchised citizens in such issues as housing, education, and access to government programs.

-Junebug Productions (New Orleans), whose Color Line Project, led by Theresa Ripley Holden and John O’Neal, collects, archives, and disseminates the reminiscences of people who participated in or were influenced by the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.

-Victoria L. Kovari, director of the Michigan Metro Equity Project at Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (Detroit), who is leading a campaign for an expanded regional public-transportation system.

-Laotian Organizing Project (Richmond, Calif.), whose organizers — Grace Kong, Torm Nompraseurt, and May Phan — disseminate information and train community leaders concerning toxic pollution from industrial facilities near schools and homes in an area with a large refugee population.

-María Martínez, co-chair of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (Detroit), who leads a grass-roots movement to challenge the meatpacking industry’s practices.

-Harold Mitchell, chief executive officer of ReGenesis (Spartanburg, S.C.), which works to raise public awareness of the health effects of industrial toxic wastes.

-John Parvensky, president of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (Denver), a network of 30 social-service organizations that provide affordable housing and other services to homeless people.

-People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (Austin, Tex.), a group founded by Susana Almanza and Sylvia Herrera that organizes low-income, predominantly Latino residents in East Austin to prevent unsafe industrial development.

-Project H.O.M.E. (Philadelphia), which develops housing for formerly homeless individuals and families and is led by Joan Dawson McConnon and Sister Mary Scullion.

-Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (Charlotte, N.C.), which trains volunteers to provide practical, emotional, and spiritual support to HIV-positive people and their families and is led by the Rev. Amy E. Brooks, the Rev. Debra K. Kidd, the Rev. Stephanie Speller Henderson, and the Rev. Deborah C. Warren.

-Gerry F. Roll, executive director of Hazard Perry County Community Ministries (Hazard, Ky.), an organization that provides emergency shelter, transitional apartments, and other support services in rural Kentucky.

-Sacramento Valley Organizing Community (Sacramento), which works with 40 religious and community groups to provide affordable housing, job-training programs, and improved immigration services to low-income people, and is led by Larry Ferlazzo, the Rev. Tyrone Hicks, Carmen Mirazo, and Pastor Cornelius V. Taylor Jr.

-Donald Guy Sampson, executive director of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (Portland, Ore.), who assembled a coalition to reverse a severely depressed tribal economy, focusing on reviving salmon stocks.

-Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (Washington), who started this organization that works to end mandatory sentencing for first-time criminal offenders.

-Tohono O’odham Community Action (Sells, Ariz.), which works to revive cultural traditions of the Tohono O’odham tribe and is led by Terrol Dew Johnson and Tristan Reader.

-KaYing Yang, executive director of Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (Washington), who created a network of mutual-assistance associations to improve the national-policy program of the center.

The Rockefeller Foundation (New York) has announced the 2002 fellows for its Next Generation Leadership program, a two-year program in which fellows initially study U.S. democracy, including issues of citizenship, immigration, globalization, race, and the role of the media and technology in democratic societies. In the program’s second year, the fellows collaborate on projects in their respective communities designed to help strengthen participatory democracy. The fellows are:

-Karen Bohlke, development director, Institute for Community Leadership (Seattle).

-Miguel Bustos, executive director, California Latino Civil Rights Network (San Francisco).

-Liz Canner, director, Astrea Media (Somerville, Mass.).

-Arrington Chambliss, director, No Ordinary Time (Boston).

-Tariq H. Cheema, co-founder and director, Doctors Worldwide (Burr Ridge, Ill.).

-Cynthia Choi, development and communications director, Center for the Pacific-Asian Family (Los Angeles).

-Joseph W. Daniels Jr., senior pastor, Emory United Methodist Church (Washington).

-Keith Harper, senior staff attorney, Native American Rights Fund (Silver Spring, Md.).

-Lisa Hasegawa, executive director, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (Washington).

-Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley De-Bug Coordinator (San Jose, Calif.).

-Robert S. Kallen, founder, RSK Strategies (Chicago).

-Jackie Kaplan, principal, Get Sums Fundraising Consultants (Chicago).

-Sonya Lopez, program faculty and grant specialist, Southwest Texas State U. (San Marcos).

-Sean Maloney, chief operating officer, Kiodex (New York).

-Dianthe D. Martinez, executive director, Irvington Neighborhood Improvement Corporation (N.J.).

-Gepsie M. Metellus, executive director, Sant La, Haitian Neighborhood Center (Miami).

-Hilary Anne Morgan, director, Homeward Bound/Rural Alaska Community Action Plan (Anchorage).

-David Muhammad, program director, the Mentoring Center (Oakland, Calif.).

-Peter O’Driscoll, coordinator, Agribusiness Accountability Initiative at Center of Concern (Washington).

-Randal D. Pinkett, president and chief executive officer, Building Community Technology Partners (Plainfield, N.J.).

-Sofia Quintero, co-founder, Chica Luna Productions (the Bronx, N.Y.).

-John Rodriguez, co-founder and chairman, Latino Advocacy Coalition (Rochester, N.Y.).

-Gail Small, founder and director, Native Action (Lame Deer, Mont.).

-Bill Stanczykiewicz, president and chief executive officer, Indiana Youth Institute (Indianapolis).

Medical research. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Princeton, N.J.) has presented several Distinguished Achievement Awards, administered through its Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program. The unrestricted $50,000 grants went to researchers working in the following categories:

-Cancer research. Robert C. Young and Robert F. Ozols, Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia), for developing a chemotherapy regimen used to care for advanced ovarian-cancer patients.

-Cardiovascular research. Jonathan G. Seidman and Christine E. Seidman, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston), for their research on inherited pathologies.

-Metabolic research. Philip Cohen, U. of Dundee (Scotland), for his research on the pathways by which insulin regulates metabolism.

-Nutrition research. John W. Suttie, U. of Wisconsin at Madison, for his experimental work on vitamin K.

Nonprofit leadership. The Durfee Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.) has named six recipients of the 2002 Durfee Sabbatical Award, which provides leaders of Los Angeles County nonprofit organizations with up to $30,000 to travel, study, write, or otherwise renew themselves. The recipients are:

-Tim Dang, producing artistic director at East West Players.

-Esther Feldman, executive director of Community Conservancy International.

-Susan Kujawa, executive director of Mother’s Club.

-Sister Jennie Lechtenberg, executive director of Puente Learning Center.

-Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

-May To, executive director of the Asian Youth Center.

Nonprofit management. The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (New York) has given its 2002 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation to Crayons to Computers (Cincinnati). The award recognizes the organization’s Crafts with Conviction Program, through which prison inmates transform donated supplies into classroom materials — including flashcards, maps, and book bags — as part of the community-service requirement accompanying some prison sentences. The organization will receive a $25,000 prize and a short video will be made that profiles the winning program. The foundation also recognized the Keshet Dance Company (Albuquerque) and the Kauai Food Bank (Lihue, Hawaii) for their innovative programs.

Philanthropic leadership. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation (Seattle) has presented its Award for Distinguished Public Service to William H. Gates Sr., co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle). Mr. Gates was honored for his commitment to social change in the United States and in developing countries. In addition to his work in philanthropy, Mr. Gates has held leadership positions in more than 25 organizations, including the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of King County (Seattle).

Philanthropy. The Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.) has presented its annual Philanthropy Awards in recognition of “innovative generosity of local people.” The recipients are:

-Joanna Card, who established an endowment fund at Roberts Wesleyan College for student social work and community-service projects.

-ESL Federal Credit Union, which supported the participation of the Navy Blue Angels in the International Airshow and a number of community-development projects.

-James and Janis Gleason and the Gleason Foundation, who support Hope Hall, which helps children with special learning needs.

-Elliott H. Press, a real-estate developer, who supports many charitable projects, including Quad A for Kids.

-Janet S. Welch, who will also receive the Joe U. Posner Founders Award for her services to local organizations, including St. Joseph’s Villa and Rochester Area Community Foundation.

Planned giving. The National Committee on Planned Giving (Indianapolis) has presented its Distinguished Service Award to Craig Wruck, vice president for philanthropic and charitable services at U.S. Trust Company (Minneapolis). Mr. Wruck was recognized for his work to educate the public about charitable giving and to help charities more effectively raise money.

Social benefit. The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (Auburn, N.Y.) has presented its annual Frank Annunzio Awards to individuals whose innovative thinking has led to work or achievements that have “a significant and beneficial impact on society.” The winners, who receive $50,000 each, are:

-James Cobey, an orthopedic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center, whose work and research have helped raise support for an international treaty banning land mines.

-William P. Magee Jr., chief executive officer and co-founder of Operation Smile (Norfolk, Va.), whose organization has trained and sent health professionals to provide reconstructive surgery and related health care on a volunteer basis to children and youths worldwide.

-Ian Phillips, associate vice president of research and graduate programs at the College of Medicine, U. of Florida (Gainesville), who has developed new ways to treat hypertension using gene therapy.

-Ray Wu, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), who has developed a strategy used in DNA-sequence analysis.

Social entrepreneurship. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (Geneva) has selected its 2003 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs, individuals and organizations that have developed innovative ways to alleviate poverty and improve education and the environment. Each recipient will be a part of the foundation’s network for three years, during which time they will be invited to participate in the Davos Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum. The 2003 winners and their respective categories:

-Biotechnology and technology: Nick Moon, managing director, and Martin Fisher, technical director, at Approtec (Nairobi, Kenya); Jim Fruchterman, president and chief executive officer of Benetech (Palo Alto, Calif.); Richard Jefferson, chairman and chief executive officer of CAMBIA (Canberra, Australia); and Rory Stear, chairman and chief executive officer of the Freeplay Group (London).

-Education: Vicky Colbert, director of Fundación Volvamos a la Gente (Bogotá, Colombia); Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America (New York); and Bunker Roy, director of Barefoot College (Tilonia, India).

-Environment: Iftekhar Enayetullah and Maqsoos Sinha, founders of Waste Concern (Dhaka, Bangladesh); Dener Giovanini, general coordinator, RENCTAS (São Paulo, Brazil); and Maria Elena Ordoñez, executive director of Arcandina (Quito, Ecuador).

-Fair trade: Javier Hurtado Mercado, general manager of Irupana (La Paz, Bolivia), and Victor Suarez, executive director of ANEC (Mexico City).

-Homelessness and housing: Millard and Linda Fuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity (Americus, Ga.); Sergei Kostin, director of The Way Home (Odessa, Ukraine); and Thomas Sadowski, founder of Barka (Poznan, Poland).

-Microfinance: Vijay Mahajan, managing director at Basix (Hyderabad, India).

-Women’s rights: Wu Qing, adviser at Women’s Studies Forum (Beijing).

-Youths: Helio Mattar, president of Fundaçao Abrinq (São Paulo, Brazil), and Jackie Maarohanye, founder and director of Ithuteng Trust (Johannesburg).

Substance abuse. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) has announced the 2002 Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse fellows. Each fellow is assigned to a mentor and receives $75,000 over three years to develop a program to assist in career development and to design and implement a community project. The fellows and their projects are:

-Betsy Abrahams, executive director of Youth Council (Nashau, N.H.), who will study policy and strategy development.

-Daniel Abrahamson, director of legal affairs at Drug Policy Alliance (Oakland, Calif.), who will convene a committee to draft a model drug law that is less punitive and more treatment-oriented than existing laws.

-Carol S. D’Agostino, director of the Geriatric Addictions Program at Lifespan of Greater Rochester (N.Y.), who will conduct statistical research on older adults with substance-abuse problems.

-DeWayne A. Holman, partnership facilitator at the Nashville Prevention Partnership of the Alcohol and Drug Council of Middle Tennessee, who will use scientific-research methods and outcomes data to form effective substance-abuse prevention and treatment strategies.

-Harrison Jim Sr., a substance-abuse counselor who uses traditional American Indian healing methods and a clinical supervisor at the Na’Nizhoozhi Center (Gallup, N.M.), who will start treatment centers on reservations in border towns through the Southwest.

-Satya P. Krishnan, an associate professor and graduate-program coordinator in the Department of Health Science at New Mexico State U. (Las Cruces), who will establish a center to study treatment interventions for children and women with mental-health and substance-abuse problems.

-Maria F. Levis-Peralta, executive director of the Fundación Chana Goldstein y Samuel Levis (Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico), who will assess treatment services offered by facilities for homeless people in San Juan, P.R.

-Shan D. Mohammed, associate director of the MPH Program and senior clinical instructor at Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland), who will study the prevention of HIV and substance abuse among teenagers in inner cities.

-Barry S. Schecter, clinical supervisor at Cornerstone Recovery Services (Ithaca, N.Y.), who will work on a strategy for treating the complex rehabilitation needs of patients with heroin addictions.

-Loretta Worthington, program analyst at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Alcohol and Drug Program Administration, who will focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals recovering from tobacco addiction.

Women. Washington Area Women’s Foundation has recognized several individuals and organizations for their philanthropy and service to improve the lives of women in the Washington area. Cathy Liggins Hughes, founder and chairperson of Radio One (Washington), received the Entrepreneurial Philanthropy Award, and Marion Scattergood Ballard, a board member of numerous Quaker institutions, received the Lifetime Philanthropy Award. Additionally, the following grass-roots organizations received Leadership Awards, which provide training, networking, and financial support: African American Women’s Resource Center (Washington), Asian Women’s Self Help Association (Washington), Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services (Md.), Morning Star Program run through Hispanics Against Child Abuse and Neglect (Falls Church, Va.), Silver Spring Interfaith Housing Coalition (Md.), and Tahirih Justice Center (Falls Church, Va.).

Youth. Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta) has presented its Youth of the Year award to Donald Smith of Tempe, Ariz. Mr. Smith was president of the Keystone Club, a leadership club focusing on community service at Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley (Tempe). He will receive a $15,000 scholarship from the Reader’s Digest Foundation (Pleasantville, N.Y.).