Mrs. Mahoney is a co-founder and chairman of the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute in Boston, MA, and is a trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a director of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the Charles A. Dana Foundation and a former director of the Neurosciences Institute of New York. Mrs. Mahoney serves on the National Board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, as well as on the Honorary Board of the Boys Club of New York. In Palm Beach, she is a board member of the Hospice Foundation and the Preservation Foundation. Mrs. Mahoney has been honored by the American Ireland Fund and the Boys’ Club of New York, received the Bronze Keystone Award from the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and received the Woman of Distinction Award from Birmingham Southern College and from Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. She has honorary degrees from Birmingham Southern College, AL, and Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.