page_title: The New York Times Company
section_title: Community awards
hierarchical_section_title: The New York Times Company / Community awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Linda Allen and Margaret "Gigi" Lincoln talk to Janet L. Robinson, President and CEO of the New York Times Company at the 2008 I Love My Librarian! awards. Allen and Lincoln were recipients of the award, which is co-sponsored by the American Library Association, the New York Times and the Carnegie Corporation
context_page_description: The New York Times Company is an American mass media company which publishes its namesake newspaper, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. has served as chairman since 1997. It is headquartered in Manhattan, New York City.
context_section_description: The company sponsors a series of national and local awards designed to highlight the achievements of individuals and organizations in different realms.
  In 2007, it inaugurated its first Nonprofit Excellence Award, awarded to four organizations "for the excellence of their management practices". Only nonprofits in New York City, Long Island, or Westchester were eligible.
  Jointly with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association, The New York Times Company sponsors an award to honor librarians "for service to their communities". The I Love My Librarian! award was given to ten recipients in December 2008, and presented by The New York Times Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian, and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association.
  In May 2009, the company launched The New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award to honor an American playwright who had recently had his or her professional debut in New York. The first winner was Tarell Alvin McCraney for his play "The Brothers Size". In 2010, Dan LeFranc won for his play "Sixty Miles to Silver Lake".
caption: 2008 I Love My Librarian award recipients Linda Allen and Margaret "Gigi" Lincoln talk with Janet Robinson in The New York Times Building.
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