2001 Awardees
Harrison Lim
Margarget Cruz
Kouichoy Saechao
San Francisco Performances
2000 Awardees
Margarete Connolly
Martin Jacks
Cultural Odyssey’s Medea Project
Building Futures With Women and Children
1999 Awardees
Boona Cheema
Dorothy Smith Patterson
Asian Perinatal Advocates
La Peña Cultural Center
1998 Awardees
Ruth Beckford
Marya Grambs
A Home Away from Homelessness
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
Prior to 1997, The San Francisco Foundation honored extraordinary accomplishments in public service through the Special Awards Program. Four awards were given annually up until 1996: the John R. May Award, the Robert C. Kirkwood Award, The San Francisco Foundation Award, and the Helen Crocker Russell Award. The Awards Program has been restructured so that the current Community Leadership Awards are given in the same spirit of leadership and recognition as the original leadership awards.
John R. May Awards ($5,000)
Made for organizational initiatives in response to a significant contemporary problem.
1975 Catholic Youth Organization
1976 Banana’s Inc.
1977 Center for Independent Living, Inc.
1978 On Lok Senior Health Services
1979 Volunteer Centers of Alameda County
1980 Environmental Traveling Companions
1981 Community Boards
1982 Family Violence Project
1983 Coleman Children and Youth Services
1984 Visiting Nurses & Hospice of San Francisco
1985 Jubilee West, Inc.
1986 Eden Express
1987 Bay Area Crisis Nursery, Shanti Project
1988 Battered Women’s Association
1989 San Francisco Conservation Corps
1990 Innovative Housing
1991 Larkin Street Youth Center
1992 Berkeley Oakland Support Services
1993 Rubicon Programs, Inc.
1994 Black Adoption Placement & Research Center
1995 Rafael House
1996 The Garden Project
Robert C. Kirkwood Award ($1,500)
Made to an individual in recognition of outstanding community service, commitment, and inspired leadership.
1964 Adrien J. Falk
1965 The Coro Foundation
1966 James Day
1967 Rev. Jesse James
1968 Roger W. Heyns
1969 No award given
1970 No award given
1971 Yori Wada
1972 Dorothy Erskine
1973 Ruth Chance
1974 Ruth Asawa
1975 Milton Salkind
1976 Dr. Frank Oppenheimer
1977 Rev. Gene Dawson
1978 Sandi Piccine and Pat Coates
1979 Samuel Stewart
1980 Eunice Dalton
1981 No award given
1982 Cornell Maier
1983 Henry Der
1984 Margaret Douglas and Percy Steele
1985 Esther Gulick, Catherine Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin
1986 Dr. Mary B. Olney
1987 Joseph W. Valentine
1988 Lillian Rabinowitz
1989 Patricia Costello
1990 Adele Corvin
1991 Feliz Elizalde
1992 Rudolph Nothenberg
1993 Marjorie G. Stern
1994 Dr. Edward A. Chow
1995 Gladys Thacher
1996 Frances Green
The San Francisco Foundation Award ($1,500)
Made to an individual demonstrating exemplary commitment to improving human relations in the Bay Area.
1963 Genevieve Jefferson
1964 Danta Andreotti
1965 Sister Rose Maureen Kelly
1966 Percy Pinkney
1967 J.K. Choy
1968 Grandvel Jackson
1969 Earl Raab
1970 Beth Cobb
1971 Leandro P. Soto
1972 William L. Becker
1973 Lovie McIntosh
1974 Kenneth C.L. Cabb
1975 Florette W. Pomeroy
1976 Sam Yuen
1977 Calvin Anderson
1978 Moses Grossman, MD
1979 Father Donald Burr MacKinnon
1980 Belva Davis
1981 Eunice Jackson
1982 Barbara Cross
1983 Herman J. McKenzie
1984 Carlota Texidor del Portillo
1985 David K. Yamakawa, Jr.
1986 Francisco J. Curry, MD
1987 Eleanor Curry
1988 Rev. Frank Gilbert
1989 Dr. Mervyn Silverman
1990 Dr. Edward Blakely
1991 Lewis H. Butler
1992 Angela Glover Blackwell
1993 Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr.
1994 Jeffrey Mori
1995 Carl Anthony
1996 Sandy Close
1997 Sherry Hirota
Helen Crocker Russell Awards ($5,000)
Made to nonprofit organizations that have improved the quality of life in the Bay Area through programs in the arts, humanities, recreation, environmental protection, or enhancement.
1992 Save Mount Diablo, The Oakland Museum
1993 Bread and Roses, The Greenbelt Alliance
1994 East Bay Center for Performing Arts, Oakland East Bay Symphony
1995 The Bay Institute of San Francisco, Golden Gate National Park Association, Peninsula Open Space Trust
1996 Museum of Children’s Art, National Institute of Art & Disabilities