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| Industry | Public Service, Non-Profit |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Robert Taft Jr. Samuel Beard |
| Headquarters | Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Website | http://www.jeffersonawards.org |
TheJefferson Awards Foundation was created in 1972 by theAmerican Institute for Public Service.[1][2] The Jefferson Awards are given at both local and national levels.[3] Local winners are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition. Local winners come from national networks of "Media Partners" and "Corporate Champions", from the associated "Students In Action", Lead360, and the GlobeChangers programs. The Jefferson Awards Foundation is led by its CEO, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, its president, Sam Beard, and its chairman, Jack Russi, in conjunction with the Foundation's board of governors.[4]
The awards are presented each year during a ceremony inWashington, D.C., where a broad array of honorees are recognized. Also recognized are organizations – companies that represent the pinnacle in corporate citizenship and academic institutions that best reflect the Jeffersonian ideals of citizen involvement.
In 1972,Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. SenatorRobert Taft Jr., andSamuel Beard founded the Jefferson Awards for Public Service to establish a prize for public and community service. The Jefferson Awards are led by the Board of Selectors who choose the national winners and oversee the activities of the organization. Co-founder, Sam Beard, is currently the President & CEO.[citation needed]
The Jefferson Awards Foundation is anon-profit organization that "recognizes, inspires and activatesvolunteerism andpublic service in communities, workplaces and schools across America."
Year | U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Outstanding Public Service By An Elected or Appointed Official | S. Roger Horchow Award for Outstanding Public Service by A Private Citizen | Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged | Samuel S. Beard Award for Outstanding Public Service by An Individual 35 Years or Under | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting Local Communities | Outstanding Public Service in Professional Sports | Lifetime Achievement in Public Service | Outstanding National or Global Service by a Young American 25 Years or Under | Outstanding Public Service by a Corporation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | John W. Gardner | Cesar Chavez | Joseph A. Yablonski | |||||
| 1974 | Elliot Richardson | Ralph Nader | Thomas Szasz | Maynard Jackson | Robert T. Bates, James Ellis, James Masten, Ellen S. Straus, Peter Wilson | ||||
| 1975 | Peter W. Rodino Jr. | Katharine Graham | Rev. Leon Sullivan | Emmett Tyrrell | |||||
| 1976 | Arthur F. Burns,Alan Greenspan,William E. Simon | John D. Rockefeller, III | Rev. Theodore Hesburgh | Vilma S. Martinez | Felix Rohatyn | ||||
| 1977 | Michael Mansfield | Art Buchwald | Howard Rusk | Max Cleland | Father Alfred Boeddeker, Jean Chaudhuri, Dr. Leonard Cobb, Olga Mele, Marjory Taylor | ||||
| 1978 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Paul Mellon | Jerry Lewis | Bernard Powell | J.O. Asbjornson, Thomas Cannon, Sr., Mary Kathleen Clark, Robert G. Levy, Elizabeth Maier | ||||
| 1979 | Kenneth Gibson,William Donald Schaefer,Coleman A. Young | Howard Jarvis | Jesse Jackson | Denis Hayes | Cornelius D. Banks, Dr. Ann Hines, Joyce Hunter, Father Bruce Ritter, Clarence H. Snyder | ||||
| 1980 | Cyrus R. Vance | Norman Borlaug | Allard Lowenstein | US Olympic Hockey Team | John Carpenter, Tilda Kemplen, Lee Klein, Elaine Greibenow, Dr. Louis Mattucci | ||||
| 1981 | Warren Christopher | Walter Cronkite | Marva Collins | David Stockman | Hank Adams, Irene Auberlin, David Crockett, Homer Fahrner, Noey Somchay | ||||
| 1982 | Howard H. Baker | Bob Hope | Claude Pepper | Henry Cisneros | Dallas Doyle, Richard Marvin Garrett, Helena Kyle, Caroline Putnam, Ruth Heinz, Lorraine Schreck | ||||
| 1983 | Paul A. Volcker | Kirk Douglas | Helen Hayes | Jan Scruggs | Dean Crisp, Darlene Handley, Dr. Robert Kustra, Candy Lightner, Tony Messineo | ||||
| 1984 | William H. Webster | J. Peter Grace | Maude E. Callen | Sally Ride | Virginia Clemmer, Frances & Campbell Cutler, Margaret Marshall, Betty Taylor, Donna Velvick | ||||
| 1985 | James A. Baker, III | Lee Iacocca | Betty Ford | Trevor Ferrell Mary Beth Tober | Virginia Clemmer, Frances & Campbell Cutler, Margaret Marshall, Betty Taylor, Donna Velvick | ||||
| 1986 | George P. Shultz | H. Ross Perot | Eugene Lang | Robert Hayes | Ruby Ferrell Callaway, Therese Dozier, Fannie Royston, Philip Viall, Sonya & Tanya Witt | ||||
| 1987 | Justice William J. Brennan | Irving Brown | Ginetta Sagan | Steven Jobs | Joan W. Bailey, Elizabeth Brown, Fred Doescher, Howard Jones, Jim Knocke | ||||
| 1988 | C. Everett Koop | James W. Rouse | Fr. Bruce Ritter | Marlee Matlin | Joanna & Jim Chappell, Peter Frazza, Lola Martin, J.T. Pace, Amy Marie Windom | ||||
| 1989 | Paul Nitze | Leo Cherne | Kimi Gray | Marc Buoniconti | David Cain, Clara Johansen, Stephen P. Klinker, DDS, Julia Middleton, Brent Wyatt | ||||
| 1990 | General Colin Powell | Jimmy Carter | Jaime Escalante | Anne Donahue | Wayne Barton, John Bell, Queen Hyler, Dr. Viola Taylor, Jane Van Sant | ||||
| 1991 | Dick Cheney | Robert C. Macauley | Marian Wright Edelman | Wendy Kopp | Claire & Romeo Bennett, P.O. Walter Bennet, Ann Chapman, Mistilee Grace, Deborah Walrod | ||||
| 1992 | Justice Thurgood Marshall | Faye Wattleton | Eunice Shriver | Michael Brown andAlan Khazei | Mary Ellen Eagle, Albert Eckstein, MD, Hon. Edward Rodgers, Carol Kane, Rachel Rossow | ||||
| 1993 | Carla Hills | James Burke | Arthur Ashe | Mary Taylor | Ella M. Jones, Leatrice 'Chick' Big Crow, Rev. Herschel C. Smith, Christi Todd, Dr. James Withers | ||||
| 1994 | George Mitchell,Bob Michel | Jim andSarah Brady | Paul Newman andJoanne Woodward | Wayne Meisel | Victor Acquino, Dorita Epps, Daniel Greene, Marjory Ray, Rev. Julius L. Scipio | ||||
| 1995 | Justice Harry Blackmun | Walter H. Annenberg | Barbara Bush | Stacey Bess | Mattie Hill Brown, Billy Earley, Maggie Lopez, Pamela Roland | ||||
| 1996 | Sam Nunn | Brian Lamb | Rosalynn Carter | Andrea Jaeger | Cahn Ba Dang, Jesse Hipps, Dr. Vincent Jenco, Clara Kirk | ||||
| 1997 | Robert Dole | Nancy Brinker | Oseola McCarty | Michael Danziger | Sgt. Roger Redd, Dawn Degenhardt, Momma Hawk, Chris Morris, Margaret Moul, Pat Zimmerman | ||||
| 1998 | Robert Rubin | Oprah Winfrey | Thaddeus S. Lott Sr. | Bobby Jindal | James "Major" Adams, Rose Crumb, Crystal Davis, Pam Marota, Carlos Spaht, II | ||||
| 1999 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Elizabeth Dole | Millard Fuller | Anthony Shriver | Thelma Barnett, Jean-Dominique Catchings, Patrick Dickinson, Dr. William Magee, Jr., Victor Trevino | ||||
| 2000 | John Glenn | Elayne Bennett | Benjamin Carson, M.D. | Faith Hill | Richard Cyr, Mat Dawson, Jr., Donald Fisher, Ardelia Ingram, Allan Law | ||||
| 2001 | Madeleine Albright | Ted Benna | Dorothy Height | Lance Armstrong | Dr. Allen O. Battle, Gertrude M. Cole, Jose Luis Flores, Kompha Seth, Samuel Williams | ||||
| 2002 | Rudolph Giuliani | Lilly Tartikoff | Bill andMelinda Gates | Chad Pregracke | Maise DeVore, Linda Gregory, Tomas Gutierrez, Angela Knight, Rev. John F. Norwood | Ray Chambers | |||
| 2003 | Condoleezza Rice | Anne Douglas | Mathilde Krim | Matthew Meyer | Rodney S. Alford, William D. Grace, Bridget McDaniel, Rev. Wendell Mettey, Dr. and Mrs. Sherwin Winn | ||||
| 2004 | Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | Ken Burns | Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth | Kristen Lodal and Brian Kreiter | Judith Bluestone, Kim Meeder, Rev. Alice Parker, Bobby J. Trimble, Dr. Erwin M. Vasquez | ||||
| 2005 | Lee H. Hamilton,Thomas Kean | Vartan Gregorian | Dave Pelzer | Benjamin Shuldiner | Rosie Leetta Abram, Ofrs. Billy Bolin & Paul Kirby, Marcelle Fortier Citron, Coke Hallowell, Corwin B. Marbly, Sr. | ||||
| 2006 | John Lewis | Michael Feinberg and David Levin | I. King Jordan | Peyton Manning | Vincenza Carrieri-Russo, Gail Conner, Holly Dunn-Pendleton, Stanley Ratliff | ||||
| 2007 | Richard Daley | Jeffrey Sachs | Geoffrey Canada | Lindsay Hyde | Andrea Blamble, Nancy Costello, Heidi Kuhn, Kathryn Martin, Stevie Moore | ||||
| 2008 | Joe Lieberman | Edward Jagen | Darell Hammond | Ocean Robbins | Jackie Betz, Erin Drischler & Megan Neuf, Nancy Collins, Debbie & Hank Perret, Lia Rowley, Harry Vogler | ||||
| 2009 | Edward Kennedy | Greg Mortenson, Pamela Hawley | William (Bill) E. Milliken | Jennifer Staple[5] | Dick Bere, Karen Broughton, Kevin Brown, Diane Dobitz, Catalino Tapia | ||||
| 2010 | Michael R. Bloomberg,Cory A. Booker | Paul Farmer, M.D. | Jim Gibbons | Tad Skylar Agoglia | Robert S. Edwards, Dr. Mark Kline, Gary Maxworthy, Jackie Millar, Heather Wilder | Nnamdi Asomugha,Tyrus Thomas,Curtis Granderson,Stuart Holden,Dwight Howard,Dirk Nowitzki,Justin Tuck,Lauryn Williams,Venus Williams,Ryan Zimmerman | Marlo Thomas,[6] | Ellie Duke, Katherine Foronda, Ted Gonder, Dallas Jessup, Emma Lindle, Tristan Love, Kristen Lowman, Jessie Mintz, Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, Joe Tigani, Kelly Voigt | |
| 2011 | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Bill Shore | Jerry M. Reinsdorf | Brittany and Robbie Bergquist | Pat Aseltyne, Jenny & Andy Czerkas, Megan Johnson, Rachel Muha | Drew Brees,Tamika Catchings,Stephen Curry,Warrick Dunn,Brad Davis,Ernie Els,Ryan Hall,Paul Pierce,CC Sabathia,Brian Westbrook | Craig Hatkoff,Jane Rosenthal,Robert De Niro[6] | Sicomac Elementary School - Student Council, Sashin Choksh, Morgan Hartley, Greg Nance, Nick Hebert, Patrick Ip,Talia Leman, Sarah Nuss, Mordecai Scott, Jessica Singer, Tyrone Stevenson, Vanessa Strickland | Prudential Financial,Starkey Laboratories, Inc. |
| 2012 | David H. Petraeus | Harry Connick Jr. andBranford Marsalis | Richard Proudfit[7] | Amber Lynn Coffman | Jack Cassidy & Anthony Smith, Oscar Medina, IV, Ed Rose, Midge Wilson, John Young | Jeremy Affeldt,Dereck Faulkner,Julie Foudy,Jeff Karstens,Jim Kelly,Charlie Kimball,Pat LaFontaine,Hannibal Navies,Jeff Saturday,Troy Vincent,Marty Lyons | The Robin Hood Foundation | Rachel & Kelsi Okun, Charles OrgBon III, Jourdan Urbach | Pfizer[8] |
| 2013 | Tom Coburn,Patrick Leahy[9] | Elie Wiesel[10] | Dolores Huerta[11] | Neilesh Patel[12] | Dr. Joseph Bailey, Oral Lee Brown, Jeffery Ryan Futrell, Ed & Sue Goldstein, Robert Nevins | Mark Ein[13] | Sejal Hathi, Sam King, Alexis Werner | General Electric[14] | |
| 2014 | Gabby Giffords[15] | Charles Best,[16] |Andrew Shue[17] | Pedro Jose Greer[18] | Jack Andraka, Ryan Patrick[19] | Jeremiah Anthony, Shawn & Amanda Bakker, Eric Fuchs-Stengel, Michelle Lacourciere, Stephen Tybor | Mariano Rivera,[20]James Thrash[21] | Tom Brokaw[22] | Maria Keller,[23] Lillian Pravda | Weyerhaeuser |
| 2015 | Sonia Sotomayor[24] | Jeffrey Skoll,[25] | Ivan Hageman[26] | Adam Braun[27] | Lauren Bush[28] | Margo Ahrendsen, Mara Botonis, Brooke & Keith Desserich, Manuel Santos, Marie Wolbach | Fred Jackson,[29] | Robby Novak & Brad Montague of Kid President[30] Corinne Hindes & Katrine Kirsebom of Warm Winters[31] | Target Corporation[32] | |
| 2016 | Arne Duncan[33] | Sean Parker[34] | Kyle Zimmer[35] | The Young American Soldier[36] | Dr. Ted Goodfriend, Sadiya Omar, Skyler James, Rafael Sarango, Jeff Wilbarger | Eric Decker[37] | Billie Jean King[38] | Sophia Sánchez-Maes[39] | Salesforce |
| 2017 | Deval Patrick[40] | Peter Diamandis,Sheila Johnson[41] | Patrisse Cullors,Alicia Garza,Opal Tometi[41] | Dorothea Bongiovi, Dr. Patricia Derges, Suzy DeYoung, Fred & Cora Reed, Emily Torchiana | Joe Torre[41] | Harry Belafonte[41] | Laurie Hernandez[41] | Warby Parker[41] | |
| 2018 | Elaine Wynn | Bryan Stevenson | Alexis Jones | Frank Austin, Nancy Eigel-Miller, Ingrid Johnson, Jeff Klare, Richard Perez | Shaquille O'Neal,Chris Long | Pia Phillips and Abbie Nelson | Mastercard | ||
| 2019 | Scooter Braun | Mariska Hargitay | Tim Arnold, Wayne Bisek, Renee Fahey, Dr. Kit Ford, Christan Rainey | Von Miller,Shaquille O'Neal | Morgan Guess | Patagonia | |||
| 2020 | Kristen Bell | Patrick Lawler | Nancy Abraham, Major Etta R. Gray, Lisa & Mike Irvin, LaDay Johnson, Doug McNeil | Larry Fitzgerald,Dawn Staley | Owen Colley | TOMS | |||
| 2021 | Dr. Anthony Fauci | Jessica Ladd | DeAndre Brown | Margot Bellon & Isabel Wang | Rusty Boruff, Martin Casado & Mariel Triggs, Katie Nzekwu, Toni Short, Miamie Sleep | John Calipari | Joan Ganz Cooney | JUST Goods | |
| 2022 | General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost | Sharon McMahon | Delfarib Fanaie, Nashauna Johnson-Lenoir, Terry McLean, King Singh, Kat Wehunt | Shane Battier | Ben Collier, James Kanoff, and Aidan Reilly, founders ofThe Farmlink Project | ||||
| 2023 | Paul Dreschnack, MD | Mariah Calagione, Reverend Roland Gordon, Jenna Shaffer, Luke Sharp, Michelle Vacha | Leeza Gibbons | ||||||
| 2024 | Amy & Ben Wright | David Bates, Mateo Canamar, Matt Dorgan, Liz Estilow, Bruce Kintner | Reverend James Lawson | Bell Bank |
In 1977, the Jefferson Awards began partnering with local newspapers and television stations.[42]
The American Institute for Public Service created the Jefferson Awards in 1972, honoring those who have dedicated time to public service.
For example, the Jefferson Awards for Public Service are sponsored by media outlets, and awards are given at the local and national levels. The award consists of a specially designed medal and media publicity for the cause of the recipient.
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