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The 11th annual Awards for Excellence, honoring media and public service leaders, provides scholarships for CUNY J-School students. Proceeds also enable the School to provide stipends to students with unpaid summer internships, unique among graduate journalism programs.
New this year, donors may earmark a portion of their pledge to scholarships dedicated exclusively to members of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. Co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones and including Ta-Nehisi Coates among its board members, IBWS was created in 2015 to increase the ranks of investigative reporters of color.
The Journalistic Achievement Award will be given to national correspondent for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015 and was a #1 New York Times bestseller, as well as required or recommended reading at over 400 college and universities across the country. Mr. Coates is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
The Distinguished Service to New York Award will be given to Julie Sandorf. She has served as President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation since January 2008. Before joining the Foundation, Ms. Sandorf was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nextbook, an organization dedicated to the creation and promotion of Jewish literature, culture and the arts. From 1991 through 1999, she was President of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), an organization she founded that worked in partnership with foundations, nonprofits and governments to deliver permanent solutions to chronic homelessness.
Prior to CSH, Ms. Sandorf was a Program Director at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, where she forged a public-private partnership to revitalize distressed neighborhoods throughout New York City.