Awards, Oct 03, 2002

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

Civil rights. The National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis) has given its annual Freedom Award to Julian Bond, the long-time civil-rights activist and chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore), and to Rigoberta Menchu, the writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, for their contributions to civil rights. Mr. Bond is a scholar-in-residence at the American U. (Washington) and a history professor at the U. of Virginia (Charlottesville). Ms. Menchu, a Quiche Indian woman who is a co-author of the autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, received the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work to secure equal rights and protection for Indian peasants in Guatemala.

Corporate-community service. The Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.) has presented its 2002 Corporate Community Involvement Award to Scott Kriens, president, chief executive officer, and chair of the Board of Directors at Juniper Networks (Sunnyvale, Calif.), and to Pradeep Sindhu, vice chair, chief technical officer, and founder of Juniper Networks.

Fund raising. The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U. (Indianapolis) has presented its 2002 Henry A. Rosso Medals for lifetime achievement in ethical fund raising. The winners:

-Donald A. Campbell Jr., founder and chairman of Campbell & Company, who has worked on fund-raising campaigns for more than 45 years. Mr. Campbell also serves as vice chairman for advancement on the Center on Philanthropy’s Board of Governors.

-James M. Greenfield, who has been a fund-raising executive for more than 40 years, serving three universities and five hospitals, and who has written and edited six books on fund-raising management.

-Polly Jontz Lennon, president emerita of Conner Prairie (Fishers, Ind.), an open-air living-history museum, who founded and served as the first president of the Indiana Council of Fund Raising Executives.

Humanitarianism. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Reno, Nev.) has given its 2002 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to SOS-Kinderdorf International, a global child-welfare network headquartered in Vienna. The organization provides a permanent home in a family-style environment to children who have lost their parents or can no longer live with them. Each year the Hilton prize provides $1-million to a charity or nongovernmental organization that has significantly contributed to easing human suffering.

Medical research. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation (New York) has honored several scientists for research contributing to the discovery of cures for diseases. The 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research was presented to James E. Rothman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute (New York) and to Randy W. Schekman of the U. of California at Berkeley, for their discoveries regarding molecular trafficking, a process that cells use to organize their activities and communicate with their environment. The Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research went to Willem J. Kolff of the U. of Utah School of Medicine (Salt Lake City) and to Belding H. Scribner of the U. of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle), for the development of renal hemodialysis, which is used in the treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure. The Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science went to James E. Darnell of Rockefeller U. (New York) for work on gene regulation and for fostering the careers of more than 125 young scientists.

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Princeton, N.J.) has presented Pasko Rakic with its award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research, administered through its Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program. Dr. Rakic, a professor of neurobiology at Yale U. School of Medicine (New Haven, Conn.), was honored for his work on the principles and mechanistic basis of neuronal migration in the development of the brain. He will receive a $50,000 unrestricted cash prize and a commemorative silver medallion.

Orchestras. The American Symphony Orchestra League (New York) and the MetLife Foundation (New York) have presented the MetLife Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement, which recognize orchestras that have demonstrated effective ways of partnering with and learning from individuals and organizations in their communities. The awards, which included $6,500 each, went to the American Composers Orchestra (New York), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (Albuquerque), the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Rosa Symphony (Calif.).

Research on philanthropy. Independent Sector (Washington) has presented its 2002 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize — which recognizes outstanding published research about philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, and civil society — to Jennifer Brinkerhoff of George Washington U. (Washington), her husband, Derick Brinkerhoff, of Abt Associates (Bethesda, Md.), and other co-authors of the journal Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective, a special issue of the journal Public Administration and Development. The award includes a $2,000 prize. Coralie Bryant, of Columbia U. (New York), and the late Marc Lindenburg, who was a professor at the U. of Washington (Seattle), were awarded the second-place prize and $1,000 for their book, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs.