Awards
Institution Builder Award
The National Black Theater, 2010
Neighborhood Leadership Award
The New York Women’s Foundation, 2010
Finalist, The Brooke W. Mahoney Award for Outstanding Board Leadership
VCG: Volunteer Consulting Group, 2010
Exemplary Advocacy Organization Award
New York State Education Department, 2008
Special Achievement Award
Union Square Awards, 2007
Leadership for a Changing World Award
Ford Foundation, 2005-2007
Art for Life Award
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, 2005
Catalog for Giving
Urban Hero Award, Member Organization, 2001-2005
Young Alumni Public Service Award
Brown University Alumni Association, 2003
Renaissance Award
Abyssinian Development Corporation, 2003
Use Your Life Award
Oprah’s Angel Network, 2001
Dance Theater of Harlem
Youth Council Award, 2001
Long Walk to Freedom Youth Activism Award
Community Works, 2001
Commitment to Community Award
La Unidad Latina, 2001
Union Square Award
Fund for the City of New York, 2000
Innovation in Education Award
Oracle/NYIT, 1997
What brought me to Brotherhood/Sister Sol is that this organization is attempting to find relevant solutions to the desperate situations facing our young people in the community. The services they provide are invaluable. They are a significant island in a vast sea.
I’ve stood on platforms around the world…many occasions that would be…auspicious, important. I have been anointed, I have been blessed and I have been admired, and I am now at my eighty-third year in life. I can honestly say with total recall, that no other event has ever meant this much to me as this evening, this very moment, in my public life.
