The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University announced the creation of a new award at the 2008 symposium. The Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award will be given periodically for extraordinary contributions to moving women's philanthropy forward.
The inaugural recipients of the Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award are Sondra Shaw-Hardy and Martha Taylor.
The award is so named in honor of the leadership of two visionary women, Sondra Shaw-Hardy and Martha Taylor, who saw the potential for women's involvement in philanthropy long before it became a trend or a strategy to enrich the philanthropic table. They created an organization to advance women's philanthropy which evolved into the Women's Philanthropy Institute now housed at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Their 1995 publication, Reinventing Fundraising, is quoted regularly in dissertations, magazine articles, and as recently as in the The She Spot, the book written by the symposium's opening speaker Lisa Witter. They have devoted countless hours and logged untold miles advocating for women in philanthropy.
Martha Taylor's response to the award: "Most of all, the joy of the award made my mother happy. My mother and late father instilled in their children the importance of public service and the common good. Instilling in others the spirit of philanthropy is what we aspire to do in our mutual work together with WPI and the Center."
