Awards, Oct 13, 2005

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

Education. The Broad Foundation (Los Angeles) has presented the 2005 Broad Prize for Urban Education to the Norfolk Public Schools (Va.). The annual prize honors an urban school district that has demonstrated great improvement in student achievement while closing achievement gaps across ethnic and income groups. The $500,000 award will finance scholarships for high-school seniors attending college. Four finalists also received $125,000 each: Aldine Independent School District (Houston), the Boston Public Schools, the New York City Department of Education, and the San Francisco Unified School District.

Humanitarianism. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Reno, Nev.) has presented its 2005 Humanitarian Prize to Partners in Health (Boston). Partners in Health was co-founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer and established its first community-based project in Cange, Haiti, which now serves nearly a million people a year. The group has since expanded its method, which treats disease while also tackling the conditions of poverty that lead to poor health, to inner-city Boston, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda. The Hilton Foundation awards $1.5-million annually to a nongovernmental organization or charity that has contributed significantly to alleviating human suffering.

Social change. The Ford Foundation (New York) has announced the recipients of its 2005 Leadership for a Changing World awards, which honor individuals and groups of people who are addressing critical social issues.

The awards are presented in partnership with the Advocacy Institute (Washington) and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York U. Awardees each receive $100,000 to advance their work and $15,000 for educational activities. The recipients are:

— Robin Acree, executive director, GRO-Grass Roots Organizing (Mexico, Mo.)

— Will Allen, executive director, Growing Power Community Food Center (Milwaukee)

— Jane Sung E Bai, Chhaya Chhoum, Carolyn de Leon-Hermogenes, Helena Wong, and Aijen Po of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (New York)

— Joanna Brown, Lisette Moreno-Kuri, Ada Ayala, Maria Alviso, and Leticia Barrera of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (Chicago)

— Bhairavi Desai, executive director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance (New York)

— Robert A. Fulkerson, director, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (Reno)

— Esther Gallow, president and chief executive officer, Booker T. Community Outreach (Monroe, La.)

— Jim Hansen, Gloria Munoz, Roger Sherman, Lucinda Hormel, and Judy Brown of United Vision for Idaho(Boise)

— The Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Johnson of the Beloved Community Center (Greensboro, N.C.)

— Ricardo Martinez and Pam Martinez, co-directors, Padres Unidos (Denver)

— Shannon Price Minter, legal director, National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco)

— Reggie Moore, co-founder and executive director, Urban Underground (Milwaukee)

— Richard Moore, executive director, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (Albuquerque)

— Diane Narasaki, executive director, Asian Counseling and Referral Service (Seattle)

— Barbara A. Poley and Loris Ann Vicente-Taylor of the Hopi Foundation (Hotevilla, Ariz.)

— David J. Utter, director, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (New Orleans)

— Jason C. Warwin, Khary Lazarre-White, and Cidra M. Sebastien of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol (New York)