Jefferson Awards
Jefferson Award Winner Gives Struggling Parents A Needed Break
How do you prevent child abuse? For an East Bay woman, the answer is to provide support to families who are enduring stress or crises so they never get to the point of abusing their kids.
Jefferson Award Winner Teaches Others The Values Of Native Plants
May 5, 2013 will be the ninth annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour in the East Bay. What started as one woman’s passion to protect local watersheds has grown to change the way thousands of people look at nature and the value the planting and preserving of native plants.
Jefferson Award Winner Builds Homes For Veterans
Some call this Jefferson Award winner “Wonder Woman” – not because she leaps tall buildings, but because she builds them as homes for veterans.
Jefferson Award Winner Finds Haven For Discarded Horses
This week’s Jefferson award winner learned a love of animals growing up in Wyoming. So it’s not hard to understand why she didn’t hesitate when she found horses in trouble here in the Bay Area.
Jefferson Award Winner Helps Oakland Preschoolers Thrive
In one tough East Bay neighborhood, children are blooming like a beautiful lotus flower grows from the mud. That’s the vision driving this week’s Jefferson Award winner.
Jefferson Award Winner Teaches Fundamentals Of Baseball, Life In Santa Rosa
Young little league players dressed in bright gold and white uniforms piled out of the dugout as Coach John Perry called out their positions for the field with authority. He’s earned it – having coached little league in Santa Rosa for 40 years.
Jefferson Award Winner Spreads Spirit Of Giving To Hayward’s Needy
Betty DeForest sat calmly amid the excited children swirling around her outside the South Hayward Parish pantry. Here she is known as “Mama” to about 400 families a week who receive free food donations. DeForest co-founded the pantry 30 years ago. It serves a third of Hayward’s hungry.
Jefferson Award Winning SF Teacher Helps Close City’s Achievement Gap
Sheryl Davis has been a teacher in San Francisco for 15 years. She started with kindergarteners at a private school in Pacific Heights. But when she volunteered her free time to teach low-income students in the nearby Western Addition, she was the one who learned something.
Jefferson Award-Winning Sebastopol Teen Creates Culture Of Giving
If you see people in need, help them out – That’s the mindset of a 16-year-old from Sebastopol, whose community service has even gained a pat on the back from President Obama.
East Bay Jefferson Award Winner Pays It Forward In Cancer Fight
An East Bay cancer survivor has turned his own diagnosis into an effort to heal others. A golf tournament he created has raised more than $1 million in the fight against the disease.
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