MetLife Foundation cultural grant to NCCJ for artist to implement ArtBridge, a mural project with middle school youth in Overtown and East Little Havana (2003).
 
Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement The Voice Project, a collaborative art project with children in residential psychiatric facilities and the University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic (2003).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement The History of Disabilities mural project and exhibit, in collaboration with the University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Mailman Center for Child Development (2002).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement ARTCare: Outreach to Juveniles in Adult Jails, a mural and exhibit in collaboration with the Office of the Public Defender and Miami-Dade Art in Public Places (2001).

Dade Community Foundation grant to Hands on Miami for artist to implement "We're in the same boat" Mural Project — a community building project between Haitian and Cuban elderly, co-sponsored by the Haitian American Foundation, the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center (2001).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement The Art of Inclusion: A Children's Collage: Creation of a collaborative mural that allowed University of Miami Mailman Center/Debbie School children with normal developmental abilities to work together with their peers who have varying disabilities such as hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and genetic disorders in collaboration with the Debbie School at the Mailman Center for Child Development (2000).

Millennium International Volunteer Award, a United States Department of State/USA Today national award recognizing the artists collaborative mural work at the international level (2000).

U.S. State Department Bureau of Cultural Affairs Grant for artist to implement the Children's Friendship Project for Northern Ireland Mural created with Protestant and Catholic Youth and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Northern Ireland Department of Culture (2000).

Fulbright Grant for artist to implement the Listen to the Children of the Green Line project, a US Embassy-sponsored mural created by Greek and Turkish Cypriot youth at the Fulbright Center on the United Nations Peace Keeping Force Buffer Zone (the Green Line), Nicosia, Cyprus (2000).

USAID grant for artist to create Breaking the Silence collaborative mural with participants of the XIII World AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, July 5 - 14, 2000.

Commissioned to create two murals (and serve as Artistic Director) for Art in Public Places' PATH (Public Art Transforming Housing), a collaborative  project with Miami-Dade Housing Department and the Miami-Dade Police Department aimed at eliminating drugs in nine public housing sites (1999).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council Community Grant to Miami-Dade Art in Public Places to fund Xavier Cortada’s implementation of Master-Peace 2000 --working with 10 high schools during the 1999-2000 academic year to create ten Internet-based murals commemorating the millennium's past centuries (1999).

WebStudio, an Internet-based collaborative art project using 2 webcams and a live chatroom, sponsored by the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council /Art Center South Florida’s New Forms Artists Grant. (1999)

State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs artist residency grant to fund "Reach for the Future," Miami Dade Art in Public Places residency at Palm Springs Middle School, Hialeah, Florida (1998).

Artistic License: commissioned by the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and Miami-Dade County Schools to create a 32 foot long glass mosaic mural that incorporated material from a special painting and writing project in collaboration with Poet Jeffrey Philps, the Art and English teachers at Coral Gables Elementary School and thirty-four of their students (1997).

Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council Grant for artist to implement the Little Haiti Housing Association Murals Project, in collaboration with the Lowe Art Museum (1997).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement Art as Power, a community outreach collaborative project with the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum and the Cuban American National Council's Little Havana Institute, an alternative school targeting Hispanic youth at risk of dropping-out of high school.  (1997).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council grant for artist to implement the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind "New Visions Project" --bringing together clients, volunteers and neighborhood (Little Havana) residents to create murals challenging societal perceptions and biases about the visually impaired (1997).

Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council community grant for artist to implement the “Murales del Centro” Project in an art trailer at Centro Campesino CDC--facilitating gang-involved children of migrant workers in creation of art—and an art exhibit at ArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach-- see: centro art shack (1996).



Other recent honors and (non-cash) awards

Florida Association of Volunteer Agencies for Caribbean Action (FAVA/CA) Florida International Volunteer Corps 1999 Outstanding Achievement Award, February 23, 2000

Jubilee Artist, Jubilee Day dedicated to Artists, February 18, 2000, The Vatican, Vatican City: Miami artist Xavier Cortada will travel to the Vatican to participate in the Jubilee Day for Artists on February 17 and 18^th, 2000. Cortada will be one of only 600 artists and cultural figures invited by the Vatican from every country in the world to reflect on this Jubilee Year.

Presented "Key to the City", the City of South Miami, May 18th, 1999.

"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation on January 6, 1999 by the City of South Miami, Florida.

Awarded Grand Prize "Best of Show" Award at the Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art Arte + Arte group show in November 1998, Coral Gables, Florida.

"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation by the City of Miami, April 4th, 1998.

"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation by the City of Miami Beach, Florida on April 4, 1998.

"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation by Miami-Dade County, Florida on April 4, 1998.

Entered into the Congressional Record of the 105th Congress, First Session, ("Cuban American Artist Xavier Cortada"), Washington, Wednesday, April, 22nd, 1998.

Presented with the "Key to the Miami-Dade Housing Agency" for facilitating the Naranja Public Housing Mural Project, Miami-Dade County, September 8, 1997.