| 2000 Peabody Award Winner | Lost & Found Sound |
| 2000 New York International Festival Grand Award and World Gold Medal Winner | The Century in Sound |
| 2000 Certificate of Merit - Honorable Mention in the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards | Brown v Board of Education PSA |
| 2000 Montana Broadcasting Association E. B. Craney Broadcasting Awards Noncommercial Radio Program of the Year | John and Nippy |
| 2000 NFCB Golden Reel Award for National Public Affairs Programs | Becoming a Man |
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1999 NFCB Special Merit Award 1999 Communicator Crystal Awards of Excellence in the Live Broadcast Category | Paul Winter Solstice Live! Celebration |
| 1999 NFCB Silver Reel for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting | Jazz from Lincoln Center: Montage |
| 1999 Communicator Crystal Awards of Excellence in the Arts/Cultural Category | Jazz from Lincoln Center: Fascinatin' Rhythm |
| 1999 Communicator Crystal Awards of Excellence in the Arts/Cultural Category | Jazz from Lincoln Center: The World of Shirley Horn |
| 1999 Communicator Crystal Awards of Excellence in the Script Category | Jazz from Lincoln Center: Sidney Bechet Centennial |
| 1999 Oral History Association's Nonprint Media Award | I Can Almost See the Lights of Home: A Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky |
| 1999 Golden Mike Award from the Radio TV News Assoc. of So. Cal. for Best News Reporting by a Network (NPR) | Burning Man |
| 1996 International Radio Festival Gold Medal for Children's Programming | My World |
| 1995 NFCB Golden Reel Award for Audio Drama | The Cost of a Life |
| NFCB Silver Reel Award | The Scrumptious Food at Jazzfest 1999 |
| NFCB Special Merit Award | Professor Longhair - Founding Jazzfest Spirit |
Best Work Never Heard
Oncore Performances
KPFA is 50: Half a Century of Free Speech Radio
The AIR Theme Song
Homies