Editing Maria Shriver (section)

==Honors==
As executive producer of ''The Alzheimer's Project'', Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/shriver-gore-honored-tv-academy-wbna36997744|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509082437/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36997744/ns/today-entertainment/ |url-status=live |archive-date=May 9, 2010 |title=Shriver, Gore honored by TV academy |work=TODAY.com |date=May 6, 2010 |access-date=June 6, 2020}}</ref> She has additionally won [[Peabody Awards]] for her television journalism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3949468 |title=Maria Shriver – Dateline NBC |publisher=NBC News |date=January 13, 2004 |access-date=March 23, 2011 |archive-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324234640/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3949468/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2009, Shriver was honored with the Shinnyo-en Foundation's 2009 Pathfinders to Peace Award, which is bestowed annually to a person who exemplifies the ideals of compassion, harmony, and peace.<ref>[http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/remarks/6-23-09-Pathfinders_to_Peace.htm Shinnyo-en Foundation names UC Berkeley chancellor and Maria Shriver its 2009 'Pathfinders to Peace'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609071220/http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/remarks/6-23-09-Pathfinders_to_Peace.htm |date=June 9, 2010 }}</ref> At the presentation ceremony honoring Shriver, the foundation's chief executive said, "Maria Shriver sees the best in other people – their innate goodness – and inspires them to become their own 'Architects of Change'. In a world that glorifies ambition at any cost, Maria instead teaches character. She is a woman of quiet strength who role-models kindness and charity, and has used her celebrity to help create peace in the world."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeu8Jmj2cw |title=Maria Shriver receiving Shinnyo-en Foundation's Award at 2009 NCVS |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=October 8, 2014 |archive-date=July 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709054112/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeu8Jmj2cw |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Saint John's Health Center]] has a nursery named after Shriver.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://california.providence.org/saint-johns/services/obstetrics/nursery/ |title=The Maria Shriver Nursery |publisher=Saint John's Health Center |access-date=July 23, 2012 |archive-date=November 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124194648/http://california.providence.org/saint-johns/services/obstetrics/nursery/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

A [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] rose was named after Shriver in October 2004. The Maria Shriver rose contains starchy-white blooms and a powerful citrus fragrance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041017/news_1hs17maria.html |title=Rose named in honor of Maria Shriver |access-date=October 8, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118230110/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041017/news_1hs17maria.html |archive-date=November 18, 2011  }}</ref>

In 2017, the [[Alzheimer's Association]] awarded Shriver with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alz.org/forum/highlight-tuesday-pm.asp|title=Forum Highlight {{!}} Forum 2017 {{!}} Alzheimer's Association|date=March 18, 2016|website=Alzheimer's Association {{!}} Advocacy Forum 2017f|access-date=September 13, 2019|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803192730/https://www.alz.org/forum/highlight-tuesday-pm.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>