What two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction also won an award from a privately funded foundation created to recognize annually the greatest accomplishments in art, music, literature, and photography among Mississippians?
Larry Brown
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) is a privately funded foundation created to recognize annually the greatest accomplishments in art, music, literature, and photography among Mississippians.
 The idea was conceived by, among others, former Mississippi Governor William Winter, Dr. Cora Norman, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, and Dr. Noel Polk in 1978, and the first awards were given out in 1980.
 Nominations for these awards may be made only by registered members of the Institute.
 The winners are chosen by a jury of prominent academics in each of the seven fields: Fiction, Non-fiction, Visual Art, Concert Musical Composition, Popular Musical Composition, Photography, and Poetry.
 The ceremony is held in a different Mississippi city each year.
 Past winners have included Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Ford, Larry Brown, Rick Bass, Lewis Nordan, Beverly Lowry, Donna Tartt, Clifton Taulbert, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, Leontyne Price, Cynthia Shearer, Stephen Ambrose, Steve Yarbrough, Tom Franklin, Brad Watson, Shelby Foote, Natasha Trethewey, Birney Imes, Maude Schyler Clay, William Grant Still, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Maurer, Wyatt Waters, Logan Skelton, and many others.
 Lifetime achievement awards have been presented to artists such as Gulf Coast painter and potter Walter Anderson, Jackson writer Eudora Welty, and the distinguished film actor from the Delta, Morgan Freeman.
Larry Brown (author)
Larry Brown (July 9, 1951 – November 24, 2004) was an American novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.
 He won numerous awards including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award, and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts.
 He was also the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction.
Southern Book Prize
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award and SIBA Book Award) is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999.
 Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of their customers.
 Voting categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature. Kamin Kamani
Kamin Kamani (Thai: คามิน คมนีย์ ; rtgs: "Khamin Khamani" , born in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand) is a Thai writer.
 He was a two-time winner of Naiin Literature Award for Best Nonfiction in 2004 and 2009.
 He also won the 2011 Wankaew Award for Young Adult Fiction and the 2013 National Book Award for Best Young People's fiction.
 In 2014, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) included his book, Lookyang Klang Huay, on its Honour Book List. Soyuz TM-30
Soyuz TM-30 (Russian: Союз ТМ-30 , "Union TM-30"), also known as Mir EO-28, was a Soyuz mission, the 39th and final human spaceflight to the Mir space station.
 The crew of the mission was sent by MirCorp, a privately funded company, to reactivate and repair the station.
 The crew also resupplied the station and boosted the station to an orbit with a low point (perigee) of 360 and a high point (apogee) of 378 kilometers (223 and 235 miles, respectively).
 The boost in the station's orbit, which was done by utilizing the engines of the Progress M1-1 and M1-2 spacecraft, made transit between Mir and the International Space Station impossible, as desired by NASA.
 The mission was the first privately funded mission to a space station. Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, and Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for the Writing Arts there.
 Gibbons has published numerous books, as well as poems, short stories, essays and reviews in journals and magazines, has held Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships in poetry and a research fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C.
 He has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison, Jr.
 Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in "Best American Poetry" and "Pushcart Prize" anthologies.
 His book "Creatures of a Day" was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry.
 He attended public school in Spring Branch (at that time, outside Houston, Texas; now incorporated into the city), Princeton University (BA Spanish and Portuguese), and Stanford University (MA in English and Creative Writing; PhD in Comparative Literature).
 Before moving to Northwestern University, he taught creative writing at Princeton and Columbia.
 At Northwestern, he was the editor of "TriQuarterly" magazine from 1981 to 1997, and co-founded TriQuarterly Books (after 1997, an imprint of Northwestern University Press).
 As the editor of "TriQuarterly", he edited or co-edited the special issues "Chicago" (1984), "From South Africa: New Writing, Photography and Art" (1987), "A Window on Poland" (1983), "Prose from Spain" (1983), "New Writing from Mexico" (1992), and others, as well as many general issues of the magazine.
 He edited two works of William Goyen (1915-1983): the 50th Anniversary edition of "The House of Breath" and the Goyen's posthumously published second novel, "Half a Look of Cain" (both published by Northwestern University Press).
 In 1989, he was one of a group of co-founders of the Guild Literary Complex (Chicago), a literary presenting organization, where he continues to volunteer, and he is a member of the large team that is creating the American Writers Museum (Chicago; opening in 2017). Girls' Club Foundation
Girls' Club Foundation (Girls' Club) is a privately funded non-profit foundation providing an art gallery and exhibition space in the center of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
 Contemporary art works in painting, drawing, photography and video are presented in curated, thematic exhibitions, including works loaned from other collectors, galleries and artists. Operation USA
Operation USA (also known as OpUSA, Operation California, or OpCal) is a non profit humanitarian organization dedicated to helping communities alleviate the effects of disaster, disease, and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately funded relief, reconstruction, humanitarian aid and development aid.
 It is exclusively privately funded, receiving no assistance from the United States federal government.
 OPUSA had a revenue of over $22 million in fiscal year 2012 and has shipped over $425 million worth of "high-priority medical, nutritional and shelter supplies" since its inception, including shipments to Haiti, Japan, Chile, Kenya and Pakistan in 2011 and 2011. Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Claude Moore Colonial Farm, originally Turkey Run Farm, is a U.S. park in Virginia recreating and reenacting life on a tenant farm c. 1771.
 Turkey Run is the only privately run park in the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).
 The Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run Inc., a privately funded foundation, pays for all activities on the farm, while the land is owned by the NPS.
 They receive only certain maintenance tasks from the Park Service.
 The Farm is located in Langley, Virginia, a suburb of McLean, Virginia, next to the George Bush Center for Intelligence and the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.
 Market Fair events are held at the park. Lee Smith (fiction author)
Lee Smith (born November 1, 1944) is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her background from the Southeastern United States in her works.
 She has received writing awards, such as the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and, in April 2013, was the first recipient of Mercer University's Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature.
 Her novel "The Last Girls" was listed on the "New York Times" bestseller's list and won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
 "Mrs Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger", a collection of new and selected stories, was published in 2010.