Putting their money where the children are, the four winners of this year’s Sara Lee Foundation Frontrunner Awards all directed donations in their names to causes that help children. Handgun violence crusader Sarah Brady, whose husband, Jim, was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, is donating her $50,000 to an education program called Straight Talk About Risks, part of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, which Brady chairs. Katharine Graham, Washington Post Co. executive committee chair and Frontrunner recipient for the business sector, chose the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, winning the award for the government sector, directed funds to the Family Advocacy and Support Program at Stanford Law School. And Rita Dove, a University of Virginia professor and poet who won the award for the arts sector, donated the money to recruit minority students into the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College.
The Chicago-based consumer products company, which this year doubled its donation to $200,000 for the four causes, will present the awards Nov. 6 in Washington.
