- Valerie Capers is inducted into The Bronx Walk of Fame
APPOINTMENTS
- New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, Member
AWARDS
- Bronx Living Legend, Bronx Music Heritage Center
- Bronx Walk of Fame
- Valerie Capers Day, Borough of the Bronx, April 2, 1995
- Women of Essence Award for Music, Essence Magazine
GRANTS
- CUNY Research Foundation
- The Fund for Artists of Arts International
- Meet the Composer
- National Endowment for the Arts, Jazz Series, Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
HONORARY DOCTORATES
- Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey
- Doane University, Crete, Nebraska
- Lehman College of the City University of New York, Bronx, New York
- Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania