Awards, Jun 27, 2002

The following awards have been presented for achievement in corporate involvement, fund raising, nonprofit management, philanthropy, and other areas:

Community development. The first-place prize in the JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition, which fosters partnerships between graduate schools and community-based nonprofit groups in the New York area, has been awarded to a team of faculty members and students from the City College of New York’s School of Architecture and the New School U.’s Parsons School of Design and Milano Graduate School. The accompanying $25,000 award went to Riverside Church (New York), which worked with the team to develop the Uptown Nonprofit Center, a complex that provides low-cost office space for local nonprofit groups while generating revenue for community programs.

MassINC (the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), in Boston, has announced the winners of its inaugural New Commonwealth Medals, awarded in four areas: Boston Medical Center, for achievement in promoting civic renewal; Citizen Schools (Boston), for achievement in promoting lifelong learning; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams), for achievement in promoting economic prosperity; and School Safety Heroes (New Bedford, Mass.), for achievement in promoting safe neighborhoods.

Corporate involvement. The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) has presented its first Innovation in Corporate Citizenship Award to Lewis T. Karabatsos, director of corporate community relations at Compaq Community Corporation (Marlboro, Mass.), and to Ursula Surgalski, executive director of the Applied Materials Foundation (Santa Clara, Calif.).

The Council for Aid to Education (New York) has selected the recipients of its 2002 Leaders for Change Awards, which identify outstanding corporate efforts to improve education: ExxonMobil (Irving, Tex.), which was honored for its Pre-College and Higher Education Science and Mathematics program; IBM (White Plains, N.Y.), for its Reinventing Education program; and State Farm Insurance Companies (Bloomington, Ill.), for its Partners in a Learning Community program.

Education fund raising. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington) has announced the recipients of its 2002 Annual Research Awards, which honor outstanding doctoral and other published scholarship on fund raising for education and higher education. The Alice L. Beeman Awards for research in communications went to Jean-Pierre Kulemfuka Bongila of the U. of San Francisco for his dissertation, “Funding Strategies for Institutional Advancement of American Private Universities: Applications for Congolese/African Universities,” and to Richard S. Ruch for Higher Ed, Inc: The Rise of the For-Profit University, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The John Grenzebach Research Awards for writing on education fund raising went to Tim Caboni of Vanderbilt U. (Nashville) for his dissertation, “The Normative Structure of College and University Fund Raising;” to Samuel Gresham Cash of the U. of Georgia (Athens) for his dissertation, “Private, Voluntary Support of Public Research Universities in the United States: 1785-1958;” and to James M. Greenfield for The Nonprofit Handbook: Fund Raising, Third Edition, published by John Wiley & Sons. The H.S. Warwick Research Awards for writing on alumni relations went to LeKita V. Scott of Florida State U. (Tallahassee) for her dissertation, “A Description of Successful Fund-Raising Units at Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” and to Doug Eadie for Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Seven Keys to High-Impact Governance, published by Aspen Publishers.

Health. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) has named Rotary International (Evanston, Ill.) as the recipient of the 2002 Gates Award for Global Health, which includes a $1-million prize and recognizes a group that has made a major and lasting contribution to global health. Rotary International was chosen for its campaign to eradicate polio by 2005 and for its overall leadership and positive impact in the field of public health. The award is administered by the Global Health Council, in Washington.

Leadership. The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits (San Jose, Calif.) has given its 2002 Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award to Randy Adams, managing director of TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, Calif.). Mr. Adams was honored for his work to stabilize the theater’s finances and to increase attendance, as well as for his overall contributions to the Silicon Valley nonprofit sector. The award conveys a $25,000 prize.

Nonprofit management. The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park U. (Chicago) has presented its Alford-Axelson Awards for Nonprofit Managerial Excellence, which honor Chicago-area nonprofit groups. The award for organizations with annual budgets of less than $5-million went to the Night Ministry (Chicago), and the award for organizations with annual budgets of $5-million or more went to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Each winner received a $5,000 grant.

Peace and diversity. The Interfaith Center of New York has presented the inaugural James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards, which honor individuals who have been instrumental in reducing ethnic and religious strife and violence. The awards went to James Carroll, author of Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews; former President Bill Clinton, for his efforts to promote peace in the Middle East, Ireland, and other areas of religious and ethnic conflict; and Alan B. Slifka, chairman of the Abraham Fund (New York), for his work to foster Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel.

Philanthropy. The Indiana U. Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis) has presented its 2002 Spirit of Philanthropy Awards to James R. Dodson, president of the Dodson Group (Indianapolis) and founder of the Sycamore Foundation (Indianapolis), and to John W. Leslie, former president of the American College Public Relations Association, which later became the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington). Mr. Dodson was honored for his creation of the Indiana Achievement Awards, which promote “best practices” in nonprofit management in the state, and Mr. Leslie was honored for his longtime career in the field of education fund raising and management.

Substance abuse. The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia U. (New York) has given its 2002 Distinguished Service Awards to Peter R. Dolan, chairman and chief executive officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (New York), and to Douglas N. Daft, chairman and chief executive officer of the Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta), for their companies’ commitment to substance-abuse research and education.