You are cordially invited to attend A Reception Honoring 2011 Carroll Kowal Journalism Award Recipient
Jim Dwyer for “155 Workers, 6 Young Men, 1 Fiscal Mess” The New York Times, June 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:30 pm -7:30 pm Award presentation at 6:15
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services 113 West 60th Street, 12th Floor
RSVP by October 24, 2011
Via email (preferred): [email protected] or telephone: 212-636-7130
The Carroll Kowal Journalism Award is given to a journalist for enhancing the public’s awareness of social conditions in New York City. Created in 1991 by the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers to honor Carroll Kowal, the Award is now sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Social Services. Carroll Kowal, who died in 1988, was an outstanding social worker and leader in social welfare and housing policy in both New York City and State. She was a graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work.
Jim Dwyer, who has written for the New York Times for the past 10 years, previously worked at the Daily News and New York Newsday. The author or co-author of 4 books, he was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and a National Book Award finalist. The article for which the Kowal Award is being given was in his influential column, “About New York”. This article was one of the first to bring public attention to the insanity of keeping dysfunctional juvenile detention facilities open at enormous public cost in order to maintain jobs for upstate employees.
FASS Board of Directors Dee Livingston and Ann Sand, Co-Chairs • Patricia Blau, Secretary • Kathryn Conroy, Treasurer • Brenda McGowan, Chair, Kowal Award • Charles Auerbach • Patricia Brownell • Mary Jane Cotter • Sheila Kamerman • Anthony Morenzi • Elaine Walsh
The mission of the Fund for the Advancement of Social Services is to identify and disseminate information about the impact of social services; facilitate research on innovative approaches to social services; advocate for the delivery of quality social services; and educate policy makers, the public and the private sector regarding the importance of the social services and the costs to society of not providing these services.
Reception co-sponsored by Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services, James Dumpson, Chair of Child Welfare Studies.