The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest administers the Joe A. Callaway Award, established by Mr. Callaway to recognize individuals in any area of endeavor who, with integrity and at some personal risk, take a public stand to advance truth and justice, and who challenge unsatisfactory conditions in pursuit of the common good. Toward this end, Mr. Callaway endowed the Trust with a special fund for an annual award honoring citizens for their civic courage.

The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest was created to extend the civic values of the late Shafeek Nader, community advocate and founder of the Northwestern Connecticut Community College. A tax-exempt organization, the Trust has the task of advancing the ability of citizens to participate and shape the quality of democracy in their community.

The 2018 Award Recipients

Sandra C. Black, Manager of Employee Concerns at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions -- Fearless internal protector of whistleblowers at the job site where retaliation is an occupational hazard and where she herself became a whistleblower and a target.

John Slowik, Former Compliance Officer, Olympus Corporation of America -- Heroic whistleblower against endemic corporate fraud who fought to stop Olympus from cheating the American health care system, discovering in the process that the company was selling unapproved and contaminated medical scopes, while paying kickbacks and not warning the public, resulting in some 35 deaths.