Awards, Oct 21, 1999

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 announced the recipients of their 1999 Business in the Arts Awards:

— The Founders Award went to General Mills (Minneapolis) for its long-term commitment and leadership in developing arts partnerships and alliances.

— The Leadership Award, which honors business executives who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in encouraging business-arts alliances, went to Martha R. Ingram, chairman of the board of Ingram Industries (Nashville).

— The Commitment Award, for large, mid-sized, and small companies that have provided outstanding support to the arts for at least 10 years, was awarded to the Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.), Aspen Skiing Company (Aspen, Colo.), and I. W. Marks Jewelers (Houston).

— The Innovation Award, for large, mid-sized, and small companies that have developed groundbreaking arts partnerships, went to Cinergy (Cincinnati), VH1 (New York), and King Engineering Associates (Tampa, Fla.).

— The New Initiative Award, for mid-sized and small companies that have provided exemplary support to the arts for five years or less, went to the Glenoit Corporation (Tarboro, N.C.) and Dolphin Architects & Builders (Johns Island, S.C.).

Community development. The Social Compact (Washington) has presented its 1999 Social Compact Awards, which recognize financial-services institutions and businesses that have teamed up with community organizations to revitalize at-risk neighborhoods, to the following partnerships: Chase Manhattan Corporation and the Abyssinian Development Corporation (New York); Community Pride Food Stores and the Richmond Public Schools (Va.); Eaton Corporation Navy Controls Division and the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (Milwaukee); Michael Freedland of Citibank and the Spanish Speaking Unity Council (Oakland, Cal.); General Mills/Glory Foods/Siyeza/U.S. Bancorp and the Stairstep Foundation (Minneapolis); JP Morgan and the Primary Care Development Corporation (New York); NationsBank and the Marshall Heights Community Development Corporation (Washington); Northern State Bank and Impact Seven (Ashland, Wis.); PMI Mortgage Insurance Company and the Chickasaw Nation (Okla.); Roosevelt Savings Bank and Neighborhood Housing Services of Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, N.Y.); and Saint Mary’s and Neighborhood Renewal Services of Saginaw (Mich.). Each community group received a $10,000 grant.

Corporate giving. The Dayton Hudson Foundation (Minneapolis) and the Council on Foundations (Washington) have announced the recipients of the 1999 Masterworks Awards, which were created earlier this year to spur corporate giving. Each award carries a $100,000 prize for support of charitable programs. Following are the winners in each category:

— Corporate: S.C. Johnson (Racine, Wis.), which has directed 5 per cent of its pre-tax profits to charitable causes since 1935, donating $114-million in the past decade. S.C. Johnson has chosen Mothers of Asthmatics (Fairfax, Va.) to receive the $100,000 cash award.

— Non-Profit Organization: Suburban Job-Link Corporation (Chicago), which works with Avon Products and other companies to provide employment and transportation services to residents of Chicago’s West Side.

— Special Recognition: Newman’s Own (Westport, Conn.), which donates 100 per cent of its after-tax profits to charity, and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (Westport), a summer program for seriously ill children that was founded in 1987 by the actor Paul Newman with financial support from Newman’s Own.

Six companies and non-profit groups also received honorable-mention awards, which convey a $10,000 prize for charitable programs: Chase Manhattan Corporation (New York), the Development Fund (San Francisco), Hallmark Cards (Kansas City, Mo.), National Center for Family Literacy (Louisville, Ky.), Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (Milwaukee), and United Parcel Service (Atlanta).

Hunger. Second Harvest (Chicago) has presented its 1999 Donor of the Year Award, which recognizes exemplary support of Second Harvest and its 189 regional food banks, to Kraft Foods (Chicago), and its Sponsor of the Year Award to Oscar Mayer Foods (Madison, Wis.). The Capital Area Food Bank (Austin, Tex.) was named 1999 Food Bank of the Year.

Non-profit organizations. Independent Sector has presented its inaugural Leadership IS Award, which honors a non-profit group for “investing in the people of the non-profit sector,” to the Mar Vista Family Center (Culver City, Cal.). The award carries a $10,000 prize.

Volunteerism and community service. Twenty-one organizations and individuals have been given 1999 President’s Service Awards, which are co-sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation (Washington) and the Corporation for National Service (Washington). The recipients:

— American Institute for Learning (Austin, Tex.), which created programs to mobilize local disadvantaged youths to build energy-efficient homes and to improve public lands and watersheds.

— Anacostia Watershed Society (Washington), which works to restore the heavily polluted Anacostia River and enable local residents to once again swim and fish in the river.

— Brethren High School, Service Learning Class (Brethren, Mich.), which supports economic- and tourism-development projects, including cleaning up an abandoned park and renovating a train depot to serve as a railroad museum.

— Dental Health for Arlington Volunteers (Arlington, Tex.), a free clinic that provides dental examinations and restorative services.

— Emily Elizabeth Douglas (Powell, Ohio), who established Grandma’s Gifts, a volunteer-run group that provides food, clothing, books, and other materials to children in the Appalachian regions of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.

— Elderplan’s Member-to-Member Program (Brooklyn, N.Y.), through which elderly people perform minor home repairs and provide other services for each other in exchange for similar services that can be redeemed at a later date.

— Betty Frey (Tucson, Ariz.), who, in 1961, founded Tucson Adult Literacy Volunteers, which has taught English-language skills to thousands of adult learners over the past 38 years.

— Hemmings Motor News (Bennington, Vt.), whose “First Day of School Holiday” program promotes the first day of the school year as a holiday for parents during which they volunteer at schools and community events.

— Hewlett-Packard Company and the Hispanic Student Outreach Program (Boise, Idaho), which works to reduce the high drop-out rate among Hispanic youths in Boise.

— Homeless Children Tutorial Program, Project Northstar (Washington), which provides tutoring for children residing in homeless shelters and to formerly homeless youngsters, insuring needed stability in their lives.

— Edward Joseph Jagen (Stevensville, Md.), who crusades as the “Blue Knight” in order to teach children about public safety and staying away from potential dangerous situations.

— Jail Library Student Group (Madison, Wis.), an organization at the U. of Wisconsin that maintains a library for inmates of jails in Dane County, Wis.

— Jonestown Community Association (Hot Springs, Ark.), which mobilizes local volunteers in home-renovation and garden projects, a mentor program, and a neighborhood-watch program.

— The Rev. Monsignor Ignatius McDermott (Chicago), who has been the driving force behind the Haymarket Center, a substance-abuse-treatment facility for low-income people.

— Merrill Lynch (New York), which administers the Scholarship Builder Program, through which more than 200 youths from 10 cities have graduated from high school and pursued fully financed college educations.

— Olomona School (Kailua, Hawaii), for its Mixed Plate with Extra Salad Team, which involves students at this alternative school in academic and community-service projects.

— Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 25 and Mechanical Contractors Association (Rock Island, Ill.), which have donated volunteer hours to various community-service projects, including cleaning the furnaces of elderly homeowners and installing plumbing at a soccer complex.

— Felipe Reinoso (Bridgeport, Conn.), who founded and directs the Saturday Hispanic Academy, which provides mathematics and science tutoring to disadvantaged Hispanic students.

— Robert Richmond (Seattle), who, since 1991, has contributed time, money, and telecommunications equipment to a program that provides personalized voice mail for homeless job seekers.

— John Stephenson (Santa Fe, N.M.), who owns a farm that donates its entire harvest to feed hungry and homeless people in Santa Fe, using volunteer labor.

— Young Leaders’ Academy of Baton Rouge (La.), which provides disadvantaged young black males with tutoring and mentor services, field trips, and community-service activities.