Awards, Aug 04, 2005

The following awards have been presented for work in community service, fund raising, nonprofit leadership, and other areas.

Community service. Campus Compact (Providence, R.I.) has presented its inaugural Frank Newman Leadership Awards, which honor students who have demonstrated civic leadership through service and scholastic achievement, to Tanisha Douglas of Georgetown U. (Washington) and Rachel Williams of Southern U. at New Orleans. Each of the winners will receive $5,000 from Campus Compact and matching funds from their university for school-related expenses or to support their community-service work.

Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has presented several awards that recognize exemplary books and doctoral dissertations on fund raising.

The Alice L. Beeman Research Awards in Communications went to Nissa Dahlin-Brown, assistant director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the U. of Tennessee at Knoxville, for her dissertation, “The Perceptual Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public M.B.A. Programs”; and to David Kirp, professor of public policy at the U. of California at Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy for his book, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, published by Harvard University Press.

The John Grenzebach Awards for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy went to Rebecca Meisenbach, assistant professor of communication arts at Concord U. (Athens, W.Va.), for her Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.) dissertation, “Framing Fund Raising: A Poststructuralist Analysis of Higher Education Fund Raisers’ Work and Identities”; and to Richard Chait, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Mass.); William Ryan, research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard U. (Cambridge); and Barbara Taylor, an independent consultant, for their book Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards, published by John Wiley & Sons.

The H.S. Warwick Research Awards in Alumni Relations went to Beth Bienvenu, policy adviser for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (Washington), for her U. of Oklahoma (Norman) dissertation, “Opinions From the Field: Graduate Assessments of the Value of Master’s Degrees in Arts Administration”; and to Alan Wendroff, lecturer in nonprofit management at California State U. at Hayward, for his book Special Events: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising, published by John Wiley & Sons.

CASE also presented its 2005 Distinguished Service Awards. The James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education went to Landrum R. Bolling, former president of Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.) and director at large of Mercy Corps (Portland, Ore.). The Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement went to Wallace L. Chandler, a former lawyer in Richmond, Va., for his contributions to his alma mater, Elon U. (N.C.). The Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession went to Ronald Stephany, vice president for university relations at the U. of Redlands (Calif.).

Human rights. Ashoka (Arlington, Va.) has announced the three winners of its Changemakers Innovation Award Competition on How to End Human Trafficking, each of which will receive a $5,000 prize: the Anti-Slavery Project at the U. of Technology’s Community Law Centre (Sydney, Australia), the Population Media Center (Shelburne, Vt.), and STOP (Stop Trafficking of Children and Women) (New Delhi).

Minorities. The National Council of La Raza (Washington) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) have presented their second annual Family Strengthening Awards, which recognize organizations helping to meet the education, housing, employment, health, and advocacy needs of Hispanic-American families. Each organization will receive a $10,000 grant. The winners are Chicanos por la Causa (Tucson), El Centro (Kansas City, Kan.), Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care (Washington), the Parent Institute for Quality Education (San Diego), and the Texas Migrant Council (Laredo, Tex).