Awards, Apr 09, 1998

The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management:

Dance. The American Dance Festival (Durham, N.C.) has announced the recipients of two new dance awards. The Doris Duke Awards for New Work went to the following choreographers: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, who each received $100,000; Nathan Birch and Elizabeth Streb, who each received $40,000; and David Grenke and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who each received $15,000. The Doris Duke Millennium Awards for Modern Dance and Jazz Music Collaborations, which are co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), went to six pairs of choreographers and jazz composers to create pieces that will have their premieres in 2000. Both awards were created last year through a $1.8-million grant to the festival from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York).

Non-profit management. The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (New York) has presented its 1997 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation to the Computer Museum (Boston) for its “Computer Clubhouse” program, an after-school learning center where disadvantaged young people develop computer-based projects inspired by their own ideas, under the tutelage of adult mentors. It will receive a $25,000 prize. Three other programs were acknowledged for innovative management: Earth Conservation Corps (Washington) for its “Salmon Corps” program, which involves at-risk American Indian youths in working to restore the Columbia and Snake River watersheds in the Pacific Northwest; Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership (New Haven, Conn.) for its Multi-Tiered Mentoring Initiative, which trains students from public high schools and colleges who hail from low-income neighborhoods to serve as counselors and mentors for younger children from the same neighborhoods; and St. Vincent de Paul Village (San Diego) for its Physicians Reach-Out Program, which created a streamlined system for volunteer health professionals working in its program that provides free medical services for low-income people.

Non-profit management and fund raising. The National Federation of Nonprofits (Washington) has announced the winners of its inaugural Charity Executives of the Year Awards:

— Charity Executive of the Year: Roger Courts, director and chief executive officer of the Sacred Heart League (Walls, Miss.).

— Charity Financial Executive of the Year: Helene R. Sullivan, treasurer and vice-president for finance at Save the Children Federation (Westport, Conn.).

— Charity Fund-Raising Executive of the Year: Barbara Bratone, director of development at the American Indian College Fund (Denver).