Complex sentence: He has served on the Board of Directors of the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, and in 2004 received the Writing and Society Award from the University of Massachusetts English Department "honoring a distinguished career of commitment to the work of writing in the world".
Split into simpler sentences: He has served on the Board of Directors of the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust. In 2004 he received the Writing and Society Award from the University of Massachusetts English Department "honoring a distinguished career of commitment to the work of writing in the world".