Awards & Honors

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Australian philanthropist Phil Wollen on November 30, 2010
awarded the Winsome Constance Kindness Gold Medal and accompanying
cash prize of $25,000 to Cornell University professor emeritus of
nutritional biochemistry T. Colin Campbell. Wollen lauded Campbell as
“arguably the most powerful force in this generation for educating
human beings on the serious health dangers of eating animals.” Past
Kindness Medal recipients have included animal advocacy organization
founders Maneka Gandhi, Jane Goodall, Paul Watson, Pradeep Kumar
Nath, Christine Townend, and Jill Robinson, and cancer researcher
Ian Gawler.

The Humane Society of Boulder Valley in Boulder, Colorado,
on December 1, 2010 won the $100,000 American SPCA Save More Lives
Award. Runner-up was the NOAH Center in Stanwood, Washington. The
Talla-hassee-Leon Community Animal Service Center in Tallahassee,
Florida won the $25,000 ASPCA Community Engagement Award.
Runner-up was the Mohawk & Hudson River Humane Society in Menands,
New York.
Los Angeles Animal Services’ North Central Animal Care
Center, rebuilt in 2006, in November 2010 won a Design Green award
from the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles. The shelter
earlier won an American Institute of Architects design award, was
named “Best Green Building” by California Construction Publications,
and has been honored by several community service organizations.