Awards, Jul 22, 2004

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

Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has presented several awards that recognize outstanding doctoral and other published scholarship on fund raising.

— The Alice L. Beeman Research Awards in Communications went to Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), for Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, published by Princeton University Press; and to Janine Pisani McGuire for her U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) dissertation, “Integrating Fund Raising With Academic Planning and Budgeting: Toward an Understanding of Strategic Fund Raising.”

— The John Grenzebach Awards for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy went to Anita Story Friedmann for her College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) dissertation, “Building Communities of Participation Through Student Advancement Programs: A First Step Toward Relationship Fund Raising;” to William H. Gates Sr., co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle), and Chuck Collins, co-founder of United for a Fair Economy (Boston) for their book, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, published by Beacon Press; and to David E. McNabb, a professor at Pacific Lutheran U. (Tacoma, Wash.), for his book, Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, published by M.E. Sharpe.

— The H.S. Warwick Research Awards in Alumni Relations went to Scott Gaier for his Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.) dissertation, “The Impact of Alumni Satisfaction With Their Undergraduate Academic Experience on Alumni Giving and Alumni Participation;” to Pommashea Noel-Bentley for her Athabasca U. (Canada) M.B.A. thesis, “Leveraging the Balanced Scorecard to Measure Accountability in Alumni Relations;” and to Marybeth Gasman, an assistant professor at the U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, a doctoral candidate at Georgia State U. (Atlanta), for their book, Fund Raising From Black-College Alumni: Successful Strategies for Supporting Alma Mater, published by CASE Books.

In addition, CASE has presented its 2004 Circle of Excellence Awards in several categories.

The following institutions received top awards in the category of development programs:

— Principal-, major-, or special-giving programs: Clarkson U. (Potsdam, N.Y.).

— Advancement-services initiatives: Virginia Tech (Blacksburg).

— Technology applications: Princeton U. (N.J.).

In the category of special events, the council gave its top award to Texas A&M U. Foundation (College Station).

In the category of video fund-raising features, top awards went to Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), U. of Toronto, and Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.).

In the category of development-publications packages, the top award went to the U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.).

In the category of individual development publications, top awards went to the All Kinds of Minds Institute (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Indiana U. Foundation (Bloomington), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), U. of Iowa Foundation (Iowa City), U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.), U. of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, Mass.), and Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.).

CASE also announced the winners of its 2004 Wealth ID Awards for Educational Fund Raising, which were presented in the categories of overall performance and overall improvement.

The winners in the performance category:

— Colleges and universities: Abilene Christian U. (Tex.), Colgate U. (Hamilton, N.Y.), College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.), Creighton U. (Omaha), Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), Greenville Technical College (S.C.), Hollins U. (Roanoke, Va.), Loyola Marymount U. (Los Angeles), Monmouth College (Ill.), Northampton Community College (Bethlehem, Pa.), Princeton U. (N.J.), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Ind.), Shippensburg U. of Pennsylvania, South Dakota State U. (Brookings), U. of Arkansas at Little Rock, U. of California at Los Angeles, U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis), U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), U. of Virginia (Charlottesville), Wellesley College (Mass.), and Winston-Salem State U. (N.C).

— Private schools: Blake School (Hopkins, Minn.), Marin Country Day School (Corte Madera, Calif.), Montgomery Bell Academy (Nashville), Sandy Spring Friends School (Md.), and Thacher School (Ojai, Calif.).

The winners in the improvement category:

— Colleges and universities: Ashland Community & Technical College (Ky.), Cheyney U. of Pennsylvania, College of Saint Benedict (Duluth, Minn.), George Washington U. (Washington), Houghton College (N.Y.), Lawrence Technological U. (Southfield, Mich.), North Carolina A&T State U. (Greensboro), Old Dominion U. (Norfolk, Va.), Salve Regina U. (Newport, R.I.), Scripps College (Claremont, Calif.), Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.), State U. of New York A&T College at Morrisville, Texas A&M U. at Kingsville, U. of Idaho (Moscow), U. of San Diego, Westminster College (Fulton, Mo.), and Winston-Salem State U. (N.C.).

— Private schools: Bolles School (Jacksonville, Fla.), Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, Conn.), and St. Luke´s School (New York).

Foundation leadership. The Southeastern Council of Foundations (Atlanta) has announced the 2004 class of Hull Fellows. The program seeks to help young and new foundation staff and board members develop leadership skills. The fellows:

— Denise Barrett of the Foundation for the Mid South (Jackson, Miss.).

— Samantha Bickham of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

— Nicole Howe Buggs of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation (Atlanta).

— Staci Y. Bush of AGL Resources and the AGL Resources Private Foundation (Atlanta).

— Marianne W. Cook of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

— Christopher L. Cooper of the H.W. Durham Foundation (Memphis).

— Ezra Brown Crenshaw Jr. of the J. Marion Sims Foundation (Lancaster, S.C.).

— Robyn Davis of the Southern Partners Fund (Atlanta).

— S. LaTjuan Dogan of the Southern Education Foundation (Atlanta).

— Jennifer Keith Ferguson of the Arkansas Community Foundation (Little Rock).

— Phillip Gatins of the Katherine John Murphy Foundation (Atlanta).

— Reid Hanson of the Peyton Anderson Foundation (Macon, Ga.).

— Jane H. Hopkins of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation (Atlanta).

— Liana Humphrey of the Warner Foundation (Durham, N.C.).

— Stephanie Liuzza of Baptist Community Ministries (New Orleans).

— Fontella McKyer of the Foundation for the Carolinas (Charlotte, N.C.).

— Phillip H. Redmond Jr. of the Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.).

— Wendy Roy of the Rapides Foundation (Alexandria, Va.).

— Barbara Saunders of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta).

— Lita Ugarte of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

— Katherine D. Williams of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina (Columbia).

— Melissa Wolowicz of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.

National service. President Bush has presented the 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom to 13 individuals, including the following people active in nonprofit and philanthropic endeavors:

— Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who helped revitalize the New York Public Library and served as president of Brown U. (Providence, R.I.) for nine years.

— Gilbert M. Grosvenor, chairman of the board of the National Geographic Society (Washington), who has promoted geographic exploration and research and geography education in his 50 years working with the society.

— Estée Lauder, the cosmetics entrepreneur, whose charitable work includes the creation of the Estée and Joseph Lauder Foundation (New York).