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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs appointed Sheila F. Maith as its new assistant director. For the last three years, Maith has served as managing director of Policy and Leadership Development for the Fannie Mae Foundation.

Senator Paul Sarbanes received the first Enterprise Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes his years of contributions to promote affordable housing and community development. In his more than 20 years as a leader of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Sarbanes has been an active participant in every major effort dealing with housing to come before the Senate. He has consistently worked to ensure that every American is able to obtain adequate and affordable housing.

The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial selected Stephen Bradberry, the head organizer of ACORN’s New Orleans chapter, as the recipient of its 2005 Human Rights Award. Bradberry has fought to protect the economic, political and social rights of member communities through campaigns targeted at increasing voter participation, preventing predatory lending and preventing lead poisoning in children.

Susan Stern has joined National Housing Law Project as the director of development. Prior to this, Stern worked for three years at the Institute for Community Economics, where she focused on fundraising and donor development. In addition, she has worked with several other community-based and nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts.

Sophia Lloyd joins Bethel New Life as the new chief operating officer. Lloyd has worked in the community development field since 1992. She spent four years with Lakefront Supportive Housing as its executive director and chief operating officer. She worked with the Chicago Emergency Shelter Organization, facilitating its acquisition by Heartland Alliance. Prior to that, Lloyd served as executive director of Family Emergency in Ohio.

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., formerly the Enterprise Foundation, is the recipient of the Organizational Design Award from Global Green USA, the U.S. arm of President Mikhail Gorbachev’s Green Cross International environmental organization. Global Green recognizes Enterprise for Green Communities, a five-year, $555 million initiative that will build more than 8,500 environmentally healthy homes for low-income families. www.globalgreen.org

The Ford Foundation’s 2005 winners of the Leadership for a Changing World awards are: Robin Acree, Grass Roots Organizing; Will Allen, Growing Power Community Food Center; Jane Sung Bai, Chhaya Chhoum, Carolyn de Leon Hermogenes, Helena Wong and Ai-jen Poo, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities; Joanna Brown, Lissette Moreno-Kuri, Ada Ayala, Maria Alviso and Leticia Barrera, Logan Square Neighborhood Association; Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance; Bob Fulkerson, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada; Esther Gallow, Booker Community Outreach; Jim Hansen, Gloria Muñoz, Roger Sherman, Lucinda Hormel and Judith Brown, United Vision for Idaho; Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson, Beloved Community Center of Greensboro; Ricardo Martínez and Pam Martínez, Padres Unidos; Shannon Price Minter, National Center for Lesbian Rights; Reggie Moore, Urban Underground; Richard Moore, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice; Diane Narasaki, Asian Counseling and Referral Service; Barbara Poley and Loris Taylor, Hopi Foundation; David Jeffrey Utter, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana; and Jason Warwin, Khary Lazarre-White and Cidra Sebastien, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. http://leadershipforchange.org

The recipients of Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s Mike Sviridoff Leadership Awards are recognized for their determination and creativity in making their neighborhoods better and stronger. The awardees are: Alan Arthur, Central Housing Community Trust; Charles Bannerman, Mississippi Action for Community Education (posthumously); Lorna Bourg, Southern Mutual Help Association; Bishop Arthur Brazier, Temporary Woodlawn Organization; Genevieve Brooks, Faith Center for Community Development; Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Abyssinian Baptist Church; James Capraro, Greater Southwest Development Corporation; Peter Carey, Self-Help Enterprises; Gordon Chin, Chinatown Community Development Center; Reverend Jim Dickerson, Manna Community Development Corporation; Sister Diane Donoghue, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation; Pete Garcia, Chicanos Por La Causa; Charles Gatson, Swope Community Builders of Kansas City; Mossik Hacobian, Urban Edge; Jorge Hernández, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, or Puerto Rican Tenants in Action (posthumously); Reverend Monsignor William Linder, New Community Corporation; Arabella Martinez, The Unity Council; John Mealey, Coachella Valley Housing Coalition; Ronald Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.; Jerry Rickett, Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation; Hipolito Roldán, Hispanic Housing Development Corporation; Sister Mary Scullion, Project H.O.M.E.; Lloyd Smith, Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, Inc. (posthumously); T.K. Somanath, Better Housing Coalition; and Juanita Tate, Concerned Citizens for South Central L.A. (posthumously). www.lisc.org

The winners of the Enterprise Foundation and MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing are: (in the supportive housing category) Downtown Emergency Service Center, Seattle (first place); Palladia Inc., NYC (second place); and Mercy Housing, Denver (third place). In the property asset and management category: Bethany Hill School Inc. (first place); Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Brooklyn, NY (second place); and Better Housing Coalition, Richmond, VA (third place). www.enterprisefoundation.org/metlife