Awards, Oct 16, 1997

The following awards have been presented for work in philanthropy, fund raising, volunteerism, and non-profit management:

Arts. The Business Committee for the Arts (New York) and Forbes magazine have named the recipients of the 1997 Business in the Arts Awards:

— The BCA Founders Award went to the Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Mich.) for its long-term commitment and leadership in developing arts alliances.

— The Leadership Award for business executives who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in encouraging business-arts alliances went to Eli Broad, chairman and chief executive officer of SunAmerica (Los Angeles).

— The Commitment Award for companies that have provided outstanding support to the arts for at least 10 years went to the Boeing Company (Seattle), the Heathman Hotel (Portland, Ore.), and the Frank Russell Company (Tacoma, Wash.).

— The Innovation Award for companies that have developed model arts partnerships went to BOORA Architects (Portland, Ore.) and TRW Inc. (Cleveland).

— The New Initiative Award for companies that have provided outstanding support to the arts for five years or less went to Great Frame Up Systems (Franklin Park, Ill.).

Arts and humanities. President Clinton has announced 11 recipients of the 1997 National Medal of Arts, including Agnes Gund, president of the Museum of Modern Art (New York); James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera (New York); Edward Villella, artistic director of the Miami City Ballet; and the MacDowell Colony, a non-profit arts organization in Peterborough, N.H.

The 1997 National Humanities Medal went to 10 individuals, including Nina M. Archabal, director of the Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul); David A. Berry, executive director of the Community College Humanities Association (Philadelphia); Richard J. Franke, founder of the Chicago Humanities Festival; William C. Friday, former president of the U. of North Carolina and executive director of the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Don Henley, a rock musician and founder and chairman of the Walden Woods Project (Boston) and its Thoreau Institute; Martin E. Marty, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Religion Project, based at the U. of Chicago; and Paul Mellon, long-time philanthropist and founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York).

Education and health. The Charles A. Dana Foundation (New York) has presented its 1997 Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Education to Margot Stern Strom, co-founder and executive director of the Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation (Brookline, Mass.), which uses the lessons of the Holocaust and other historical examples of genocide to help students link those examples to moral choices they make in their own lives.

The foundation gave its 1997 Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Health to Paul Greengard, professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at Rockefeller U. (New York), and Eric R. Kandel, university professor at Columbia U. (New York) and a senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.), for their separate work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the daily functioning of the nervous system and for their work on major new branches of neuroscientific research.

Each award carries a $50,000 prize.

The foundation presented its Charles A. Dana Distinguished Achievement Award to Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, for his work to champion legislative policy and financing for scientific research and development in such areas as fetal alcohol syndrome and for his support of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

Health care. The Pew Health Professions Commission (San Francisco) has presented its 1997 Primary Care Achievement Awards in two categories: education and patient care. Each award carries a $5,000 prize. The winners:

— Education: Family Practice Faculty Development Center (Waco, Tex.) and U. of Kentucky Center for Rural Health (Hazard).

— Patient care: Child Health Clinics of New York City, William Cinotti of the U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Dental School (Newark), and the Venice Family Clinic (Los Angeles).

Humanitarianism. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Los Angeles) has presented its Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to the International Rescue Committee (New York), which provides medical, public-health, sanitation, and other services to refugees and people displaced within their own borders worldwide. The prize provides $1,000,000 annually to a non-profit organization that has contributed significantly to easing human suffering.

Museums. The American Association of Museums (Washington) has awarded the 1997 AAM Medal for Distinguished Philanthropy to Chase Manhattan Bank (New York) for its commitment to the arts and to museums nationwide, including the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Jewish Museum (New York), and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York). Chase Manhattan is the first corporation to receive the award.

Volunteerism and community services. The Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Cal.) has awarded its 1997 Robert J. Koshland Prize, which honors outstanding service to humanitarian causes, to Martin Seaney, former president of the board of Hidden Villa (Los Altos, Cal.), an environmental-education group. The prize carries a $10,000 grant, which will go to Hidden Villa.

The foundation presented its 1997 Award for Volunteerism and Philanthropy to Boyd C. Smith of Palo Alto, Cal., for his long-time work with various local non-profit groups, including the California Family Foundation (Palo Alto) and the Senior Coordinating Council of the Palo Alto Area.

The 1997 Spirit of Initiative Award went to David Lewis, founder of Free At Last (East Palo Alto, Cal.), a grassroots substance-abuse prevention and treatment organization. The award, which carries a $5,000 prize, is sponsored by the Mayfield Fund (Menlo Park, Cal.).

The 1997 Business Award for Community Involvement went to DHL Airways (Redwood City, Cal.), which has created an employee-volunteer partnership with nearby Taft Elementary School.