Scholarship and Awards Program
The Foundation not only provides a Research Endowment and Healthy Weight for Kids, but also Scholarship and Awards Programs. As the largest provider of dietetic scholarships, the ADA Foundation supports deserving students at all levels of study. This year ADAF awarded 186 scholarships totaling nearly $240,000. Additional awards are granted in the form of continuing education stipends, research grants and recognition awards to practicing dietitians and nutritionists. Annually over $70,000 is available to dietetics professionals through the awards program. How are they funded? Most of the donors were corporations and state dietetic associations. You may belong to the DPGs listed below.
Platinum Donors ($20,000 and above)
Gold Donors ($10,000 - $19,999)
Silver Donors ($5,000 - $9,999)
CD-HCF DPG
Dietitians in Nutrition Support DPG
Bronze Donors ($1,000 - $4,999)
Dietetic Educators of Practitioners
Dietitians in Business and Communications
School Nutrition Services
Pennsylvania Dietetic Association Members were well represented at the
2005 ADA Foundation Award Recipients procession at the start of the Gala
on Monday night either as recipients or escorts and as founders of
awards, grants and lectures. But, the build up began two nights before
on Sunday night. Cindy and I attended an ADAF reception held at the
exclusive Missouri Athletic Club. It was on 8th Street, only a few
blocks from the headquarters hotel. We met up with Penny Kris-Etherton
(on the photo above, on the right with Cindy), a professor at Penn State
University, our alma mater and recipient of the Elaine R. Monsen Award
for Outstanding Research Literature. Below, Dr. Kris-Etherton is turning
to face Elaine Monsen after the Awards Procession
at the Gala.
We also met Beth Labrador, ADAF State Fundraising Chair. Beth told us
she arranged for us to sit at the VIP table at the Leaders, Legends and
Legacy Gala on Monday. This meant we would dine with the Chair of the
Foundation, Barbara K. Brandt (pictured above) and Chair-elect Neva H.
Cochran. We also joined Peggyann Hutchinson, the sister of one honoree,
now deceased, Patsyjane H. O'Malley, honored that evening as A Legacy of
the ADA Foundation. We were served our food first, saw award recipients
up close and reached the dance floor quite easily. Thanks, Beth!!
The room darkened and a spotlight highlighted the award recipients and their escorts as they walked into the room, right past our table to the area in front of the stage. Some escorts had actually funded the awards. Elaine R. Monsen, Ph.D., RD, on the right, funded the Elaine R. Monsen Award for Outstanding Research Literature and escorted recipient Penny Kris-Etherton, Ph.D., RD, professor at the Pennsylvania State University. This award is given to recognize an outstanding body of research literature in the field of dietetics, food and nutrition.
Sara C. Parks, Ph.D., MBA, RD, on the left, received the Karen L. Wright Memorial Lecture. The Lecture is given each year at the annual meeting of the Alabama Dietetic Association and is funded by the Alabama Dietetic Association, Inc., family and friends. Now a consultant,
Dr. Parks taught at the Pennsylvania State University and was president of the ADA.
| “I was part of the processional because I delivered the Karen L. Wright Lecture in Alabama. Friends of her mother's (Audrey) funded the award through the ADA Foundation. It is a distinguished lectureship---I felt honored to have been invited to do it. The woman that I walked with was Gail Johnson--the recipient of the Judy Ford Stokes Innovation in Food Service Award. She is a great lady---a major city school food service director.” Sara Parks |
Caroline W. Whitby received the Pittsburgh Dietetic Association Leadership Development Award. Sponsored by escort Judith L. Dodd, MS, RD, PADA and the Pittsburgh Dietetic Association the award was established to recognize emerging leaders among current graduates of supervised practice programs and encourage their participation in Association activities. The photo shows Judy at the Texas Dietetic Association's reception for Rebecca Reeves on Saturday. Caroline is on the left; Judy is on the right. Caroline is a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition. Judy now teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and was president of the ADA.
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