Award, May 01, 2003
May 1, 2003 | Read Time: 2 minutes
The following awards have been presented for work in advocacy, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and other areas.
Advocacy. The Gleitsman Foundation (Malibu, Calif.) has presented its 2003 International Activist Award to recognize individuals working to combat poverty in developing countries. The award is accompanied by a $100,000 cash prize, which was shared by the four winners:
— Fazle Abed, who founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, which distributes small-business loans, helps women establish village organizations, and provides medical care to people in poor, rural areas of Bangladesh.
— Jaya Arunachalam, who founded the Working Women’s Forum (India), which organizes poor woman workers and provides them with health services, loans, and vocational training.
— Roman Imboden, who has educated Africans about electricity-generating mills and other technology.
— Roy Prosterman, founder of the Rural Development Institute (Seattle), who has developed a model for democratic land reform that has been used in Vietnam and elsewhere.
Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has announced the winners of the CASE Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation Awards, which honor individuals for service to their own foundations as well as to the broader network of foundations affiliated with colleges, universities, and university systems. The recipients:
— Amos Orcutt, president of the U. of Maine Foundation (Orono), for professional leadership of a foundation with assets of less than $100-million.
— Cheryle Mitvalsky, vice president for resource development at Kirkwood Community College Foundation (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), for professional leadership of a foundation with assets of $100-million or more.
— Joseph F. Phelan, a consultant in Newmarket, N.H., for service to institutionally related foundations. Mr. Phelan was the founding president of the U. of New Hampshire Foundation (Durham) and edited the book College and University Foundations: Serving America’s Public Higher Education.
Human rights. The Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.) has presented its 2002 Al Neuharth Free Spirit of the Year Award and its accompanying $1-million cash prize to Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar. The award recognizes an individual in the news who has demonstrated the “human capacity to dream, dare, and do.”
Nonprofit organizations. The Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Baltimore) has received a 2003 Associations Advance America Award from the American Society of Association Executives (Washington). The association was honored for its Standards for Excellence program, which establishes standards for Maryland nonprofit groups to follow in their financial management, fund raising, governance, human resources, and programs.
