Awards, Aug 07, 2003

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

Arts. Americans for the Arts (Washington) and the National Association of Counties (Washington) have presented the 2003 County Arts Leadership Award to Douglas M. Duncan, county executive of Montgomery County (Md.). Mr. Duncan has brought arts organizations into urban areas that are being revitalized and has advocated statewide legislation for arts and entertainment districts.

Community development. The Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington) has announced its 2003 James A. Johnson Community Fellows, honoring individuals who promote community-development projects and low-cost housing in rural and urban areas. The recipients, who each receive a $70,000 grant for professional-development activities and a stipend of up to $20,000 for travel and education-related expenses:

— Mike Anderson, executive director of the East Side Neighborhood Development Company (St. Paul).

— Clanton Beamon, executive director of the Delta Housing Development Corporation (Indianola, Miss.).

— Jerry Brant, president of the Northern Cambria Community Development Corporation (Pa.).

— Aaron Gornstein, executive director of the Citizen’s Housing and Planning Association (Boston).

— Brad Lander, executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

— Joan Ling, executive director of the Community Corporation of Santa Monica (Calif.).

Substance abuse. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) has presented its 2003 Innovators Combating Substance Abuse awards. Each fellow will receive a $300,000 grant for a project or series of projects designed to improve understanding, treatment, and policy relating to the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs:

— Michael C. Fiore, a professor of medicine at the U. of Wisconsin Medical School (Madison) and founder and director of the university’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, will advocate a multibillion-dollar national plan to reduce tobacco use.

— Raymond Materson, director of pregnancy prevention and HIV education at the Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth (Canaan, N.Y.), will develop, implement, and evaluate an artist-in-residence program for drug-addicted youths.

— A. Thomas McLellan, a professor of psychiatry at the U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Philadelphia) and founder and director of the Treatment Research Institute (Philadelphia), will produce a consumers’ guide and rating scale for addiction treatments.

— William R. Miller, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the U. of New Mexico (Albuquerque), will hold a conference on innovations in substance-abuse treatment, develop a summary of evidence-based treatment methods, and help place interventionists in family-practice clinics.

— Mark W. Parrino, president of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (New York), will work to increase the availability of treatment for opioid dependence in prisons.