Awards, Feb 20, 2003

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

Community development. The Local Initiative Support Corporation Chicago has presented its 2003 Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards to developers, projects, and organizations that have revitalized neighborhoods in the city. The Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation received the Nonprofit Neighborhood Development Group of the Year award, accompanied by $15,000, for developing low-cost housing and starting the Humboldt Construction Company to create jobs for area residents. Brand New Beginnings received the Outstanding Nonprofit Neighborhood Real Estate Project award, accompanied by $15,000. The Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago received the Nonprofit Community Building Award, accompanied by $10,000, for providing job training and employment to area residents.

Leadership. The Heinz Family Foundation (Pittsburgh) has announced the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards, which recognize individuals for “extraordinary accomplishments” in five areas. Each recipient receives an unrestricted prize of $250,000. The recipients:

— Arts and humanities. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil-rights activist, singer, and composer who founded the women’s vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock and who served as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) where she conducted research on African-American culture.

— Environment. Mario J. Molina, a professor of environmental sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), who helped to secure a ban on ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, and John D. Spengler, a professor and director of the environmental science and engineering program at Harvard U. (Boston), who helped raise public awareness about health problems related to indoor air quality.

— Human condition. Paul Farmer, a physician and medical anthropologist at Harvard Medical School (Boston), who has used his expertise in tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to create model health-care systems in Haiti and other developing countries.

— Public policy. Geraldine Jensen, founder and president of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (Toledo, Ohio), an organization that helps families collect child support from noncomplying parents.

— Technology, the economy, and employment. Paul MacCready, chairman of AeroVironment (Monrovia, Calif.), who has created automobiles and aircraft that do not require fossil fuel.

Nonprofit research. The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Indianapolis) has presented its 2002 awards honoring members’ accomplishments. Each award provides a $1,000 prize. The recipients:

— Eleanor Brilliant, a professor at Rutgers U. (New Brunswick, N.J.), received the award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, for Private Charity and Public Inquiry.

— Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, professors at the U. of Arizona (Tucson), received the award for Outstanding Article, “Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom,” published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

— Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan, professors at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), received the award for Outstanding Article, “Managing Multisite Nonprofits,” published in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. This award is sponsored by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve U., in Cleveland.

— Victor Murray, an adjunct professor at the U. of Victoria School of Administration (Canada), received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Murray is the author of several books and articles on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations.

— Patricia Dautel Nobbie, public-policy director at the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities (Athens, Ga.), received the Gabriel G. Rudney Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, for “Testing the Implementation, Board Performance, and Organizational Effectiveness of the Policy Governance Model in Nonprofit Boards of Directors.”