UMass Boston’s interim Chancellor Barry Mills presented Jane Money, founding artistic and education director of the Boston City Singers, with the Robert H. Quinn Award for Outstanding Community Leadership at the university’s annual Community Breakfast last Thursday. Former State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry was also recognized at the event for her involvement in the community for the past two decades. She received the Chancellor’s Award for Longstanding Community Commitment and Service.

Money founded Dorchester’s Boston City Singers, a division of Youth Pro Musica, in 1995. The organization provides music training opportunities to low- and moderate-income city youths in the communities in which they live. It has since grown to serve more than 500 singers, many of whom reside in metro-Boston’s urban neighborhoods.

“This stage is not large enough to fit all of the people who have made Boston City Singers happen,” said Money. I’m honored to accept and receive the Robert H. Quinn Award on their behalves.”

The Quinn Award was established in 1987 in honor of Robert H. Quinn, a Dorchester native and former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, former attorney general, and former chair of the UMass Board of Trustees.

Former State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry was also honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Longstanding Community Commitment and Service. Forry, who represented Dorchester, Mattapan, South Boston, and Hyde Park, called her 13 years as an elected official a “blessing.”

“We do this work because of our commitment to one another,” said Forry, whose father-in-law, Edward Forry, was the first honoree of the Quinn Award in 1987. Forry, who co-founded the Dorchester Reporter, was in attendance.

Members of the Boston City Singers opened the event by performing two songs. Nearly 200 people attended the community breakfast, including members of the Quinn family and previous recipients of the Quinn Award.