the rosenfield prize
UCLA-community partners awarded
BY KAREN MACK
UCLA Today Staff
The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP), the operational arm
of the “UCLA in LA” program, marked its first anniversary
by announcing the inaugural recipients of its Ann C. Rosenfield
Distinguished Community Partnership Prize at a Royce Hall reception
Nov. 17.
The Rosenfield Prize honors UCLA-community collaborations that
have enhanced the quality of life for Southern Californians. Each
prize includes a $15,000 cash award, of which $10,000 goes to the
community partner and $5,000 to the UCLA partner. The program is
supported entirely by private funds directed by alumnus David A.
Leveton.
“These awards provide well-deserved recognition for successful
partnerships that epitomize the spirit of ‘UCLA in LA,’
”said Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., associate vice chancellor for
community partnerships.
The 2003 Rosenfield Prize recipients are:
- Gary Gitnick (UCLA partner) and the Fulfillment Fund (community
partner). Gitnick, professor of medicine and chief of the Division
of Digestive Diseases, founded the Fulfillment Fund in 1973. The
organization provides educational mentoring to disadvantaged youths
in L.A. County’s underserved neighborhoods.
- Juan Gómez-Quiñones (UCLA partner) and the Latino
Museum of History, Art and Culture (community partner). Gómez-Quiñones,
professor of history, has worked for 14 years with the museum,
helping to sustain it as a Latino cultural institution serving
the Los Angeles community.
- Carol Archie (UCLA partner) and the Venice Family Clinic (community
partner). Archie, an associate clinical professor of obstetrics
and gynecology, began volunteering at the Venice Family Clinic
— the nation’s largest free clinic, with more than
18,000 patients annually — in 1988, and now presides over
its board.
- Mary Keipp (UCLA partner) and the Watts Labor Community Action
Committee (community partner). Thanks to program manager Keipp,
the Community Based Learning program at UCLA’s Office of
Instructional Development has been teaming up with the Watts Labor
Community Action Committee for seven years, fostering career-readiness
and educational enhancement services for youths in Watts.
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