Linda J. Blumberg, Matthew Buettgens, Bowen Garrett: Received the Urban Institute Presidential Award for Policy Research for their report “Age Rating Under Comprehensive Health Care Reform:
Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Household Financial Burdens.”
Elizabeth Boris: named a Class of 2010 member of The Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50—her eighth year on the list. Appointed member of the senior editorial board of Nonprofit Policy Forum, a new nonprofit policy journal.
Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy: CNP’s report on “Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration: Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants,” coauthored by Elizabeth T. Boris, Erwin de Leon, Katie L. Roeger, and Milena Nikolova, was included in The Nonprofit Quarterly’s “9 Significant Nonprofit Stories of 2010” (under story #3 “The State Budget Slide).
Clemencia Cosentino de Cohen and Nicole Deterding: Received the Urban Institute Presidential Award for Policy Research for their paper “Widening the Net: National Estimates of Gender Disparities in Engineering.”
Melissa Favreault: Named to the Social Security Advisory Board’s Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods, which provides expert advice to the Social Security Trustees.
Olivia Golden: Invited to join the U.S. Children’s Bureau’s Centennial Blue Ribbon Commission (to plan activities for the anniversary year of the founding of the Children’s Bureau).
Genevieve Kenney, Robert Lerman, Pamela Loprest, Donald Marron, and Stephen Zuckerman: Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. Members are recognized experts in Social Security, Medicare and health coverage, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and related social assistance and private employee benefits.
Donald Marron: Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance and appointed to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt Reduction Task Force.
Tom Pollak: Named to the selection committee for the Washington Post’s Excellence in Nonprofit Management awards. Selected as an Associate Editor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, a scholarly journal.
Demetra Smith Nightingale: Appointed to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration's Strategic Research Plan National Expert Advisory Panel. Named Program Chair for the 2011 National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics Annual Research Conference.
Kathryn L.S. Pettit, Mary K. Cunningham, G. Thomas Kingsley, Leah Hendey, Jennifer Comey, Liza Getsinger, and Michel Grosz: Received the Urban Institute Presidential Award for Public Communication for their brief “Foreclosures in the Nation's Capital 2009.”
Margaret Simms: Received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Carleton College (Minnesota). Elected to the Board of Trustees of Cesar Chavez Public Charter School (Washington, DC). Elected to the Board of Trustees of Carleton College.
Eugene Steuerle: Advised President Obama’s debt commission on taxes and Social Security and was sole lead witness on tax reform. Served as vice-chair in 2010, and elected chair for 2011, of ACT for Alexandria, a community foundation in Alexandria, VA.
Tax Policy Center: Received the 2010 MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. The foundation praised TPC for providing “non-partisan, expert but common language analysis of the likely implications of tax policies and proposals, making it a key resource for journalists, policymakers, and citizens.” TPC will use the $1 million grant to update and strengthen its state-of-the-art microsimulation tax model and to move strategically in new directions.
Urban Institute Press: American School Board Journal, the magazine of the National School Boards Association, named Marguerite Roza’s Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? as a top 10 education book of 2010. Education Next chose Educational Economics as one of the top books of the decade—and readers voted the book into the top 12 for the past decade.
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