Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award

Winner of 2011 Shaw-Hardy Achievement Award
Martha Taylor (left)
Barbara Berman Dobkin (right)

In 2008 the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University created a new award to be given periodically – the Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award for extraordinary contributions to moving women’s philanthropy forward.  

The award is 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 and popular magazine articles.  Their 2010 publication, Women and Philanthropy:  Boldly Shaping a Better World, charts a clear vision for women’s potential and power in philanthropy.  As peerless advocates for this cause, they have devoted countless hours and logged untold miles.

The criteria for the award are straight-forward:  an individual or individuals who have moved women's philanthropy forward and have demonstrated significant impact on the field.  Candidates for the award can be from any discipline or sector: philanthropist, nonprofit leader, volunteer, change agent, fundraiser, researcher, or combination of the above.  View Press release

The 2011 award was presented to Barbara Berman Dobkin at Women World Wide Leading Through Philanthropy in Chicago.

Previous Recipients

• 2008  Sondra Shaw-Hardy
• 2008  Martha Taylor