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Princeton University honored Pablo Eisenberg with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Eisenberg founded and served as executive director of the Center for Community Change. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Public Service Award from the Alliance for Justice, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Fundraising Executives and the John Gardner Leadership Award.

Debbie Matz, a 24-year public service veteran, has been elected vice chair of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’s board of directors. Matz is a board member of the National Credit Union Administration. Before that appointment, she was named deputy assistant secretary for Administration in the Department of Agriculture by President Clinton.

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation welcomes Dr. John Bare as its new vice president for strategic planning and evaluation. Bare was formerly director of planning and evaluation at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He currently serves on the board of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the advisory board of the Evaluation Roundtable.

William C. Kelly, Jr. was elected president of Stewards of Affordable Housing. Kelly became involved in the field of affordable housing when he served as executive assistant to HUD Secretary Carla Hill in the 1970s. While a partner in the DC firm Latham and Watkins, he represented nonprofit organizations on policy and transactional aspects of developing subsidized housing.

Marion Hogan has resigned as director of the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless. She is now serving as development director for Helping Hand House in Puyallup.

Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has appointed Dr. Jane Knitzer as director of its National Center for Children in Poverty. Knitzer was the president of Division 37, Child, Youth and Family Services of the American Psychological Association. She currently serves on the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children and is a board member of Family Support America.

Arthur A. Garcia has been appointed director of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Garcia will oversee the expansion of access to capital and financial services in critically underserved urban, rural and Native American communities. Prior, he served as the administrator of the Rural Housing Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

REACH Community Development received an Urban Pioneer Award for 2004 from Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs. REACH is the first organization to receive the award, which recognizes visionary and innovative community leaders. www.reachcdc.org.

The Brookings Institution announced that the former Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy is now the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. The new enterprise is the first new program established at Brookings since 1948. The restructuring reflects the rising importance of metropolitan issues both in the United States and overseas. www.brookings.edu/metro.

The Woodstock Institute is partnering with Fresno West Coalition for Economic Empowerment (CA), Spokane Neighborhood Action Program (WA), Community Action Project of Tulsa County (OK) and Hartford Individual Development Account Collaborative (CT) to increase financial opportunities for low-income families. Woodstock is providing technical assistance, site visits and organizational planning. www.woodstockinst.org.

The 2004 recipients of Fannie Mae Foundation’s 2004 Maxwell Awards in the “Innovative Partnerships” category are: Aletheia House, Birmingham, AL, for Avondale Gardens; BRIDGE Housing Corporation, San Francisco, CA, for Mabuhay Court and Northside Community Center; Jamboree Housing Corporation, Irvine, CA, for Mendocino Apartment Homes at Talega; Kentucky Mountain Housing Development Corporation, Manchester, KY, for KMHDC 30th Anniversary Project; Planning Office for Urban Affairs, Inc., Boston, MA, for Rollins Square; YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County, Seattle, WA, for YWCA Opportunity Place. www.fanniemaefoundation.org.

1000 Friends of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, received a $50,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in support of its mission to build better communities in Florida through responsible and inclusionary growth practices. www.rockfound.org.

Colonias Development Council (Las Cruces, NM), Michael Kane of National Alliance for HUD Tenants (Boston, MA), East Bay Asian Youth Center (Oakland, CA) and Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (New York, NY) are national finalists for the 2004 Leadership for a Changing World award. Winners will be announced October 14. http://leadershipforchange.org.

The 2004 citations for Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism were awarded to the following for outstanding media coverage of children and families. (http://casey.umd.edu.)

Project Series (75,000-200,000 circulation) – Honorable mention: Barbara Walsh, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, “Castaway Children: Hidden Faces of Poverty.”

Single Story (under 75,000) – Winner: Veronica Stickney, Grand Junction Free Press, Colorado, “Without a Place to Call Home.”

Photojournalism – Runner-up: Dale Omori, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, “Children Left Behind.” Honorable mention: Rodney White, The Des Moines Register, Iowa, “Our Homeless Children.”

Television Short Form – Winner: Don Dare and George Mitchell, WATE-TV, Knoxville, Tenn., “Safe Housing- Denied!”

Television Long Form – Winner: Bonnie Strauss, Scott Hooker and Rasha Drachkovitch, MSNBC, “No Place Like Home.”

Radio – Honorable mention: Andrea Bernstein and Amy Eddings, WNYC/New York, “Handshake Hotels.”