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Date: March 24, 2005
Contact: Mike Phillips Media Relations Manager (480) 312-7825
Don Logan, Scottsdale’s diversity & dialogue director, will receive the 2005
Image Award for Civil Rights at an April 15 dinner hosted by the Maricopa County chapter
of the NAACP.
The Image Awards are presented annually by the chapter to those who go “above and
beyond the call of duty ” to foster strong community relationships, said the Rev.
Oscar S. Tillman, president of the Maricopa County NAACP chapter.
“Don’s resolve to stand up as a role model and not give in to those factions
that use threats and terrorism to impede progress shows his true ability,” said
Tillman.
Logan was the target of a package bomb in February 2004 that injured him and two other
city of Scottsdale employees.
Logan was back at work one month after the attack, which remains under investigation by
the U.S. Postal Service and other law enforcement agencies.
As director of the city’s Office of Diversity & Dialogue, Logan works to
promote the understanding and acceptance of diversity in both the community and city
workplace. The office sponsors community forums and events, and works within the city
organization to foster an appreciation for the ways culture, ethnicity, gender, education,
race, income and a broad range of experiences and backgrounds shape relationships among
people in their community and workplace.
Under Don’s leadership, the office has been recognized as a model program.
Outreach efforts by his office were recognized in 2003 when Scottsdale was named one of
two winners in the large-company category of the Workforce Diversity Best Practices Awards
of Greater Phoenix.
The Image Awards will be presented at 7 p.m. April 15 at the Phoenix Downtown Hyatt
Regency Hotel. More information on the dinner and awards is available by calling the
Maricopa County NAACP office at (602) 252-4064.
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