2016-2017
BAY AREA I M PAC T REP ORT
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Jefferson Award Foundation
WE BELIEVE IN PUBLIC SERVICE Not just because it improves communities, but because it changes the lives of those who participate. It offers leadership skills that propel success in school and throughout life. We believe so strongly in the power of public service that we promote it every way we know how. We honor outstanding Americans who are making a difference with Jefferson Awards, inspiring others to act. We help companies engage their communities and celebrate their employees who give back. We provide young people with the tools they need to make the difference they seek.
Jack Russi, Chairman, Board of Governors
Hilary Schafer, CEO
Freda Statom, Regional Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Area 2
OUR LEGACY We are pleased to share this impact report on the achievements of the Bay Area’s Jefferson Awards programming for 2016-17. Since 1972, the Jefferson Awards Foundation (JAF) has been celebrating the best in public service and multiplying good. Together with our Media Partners and Champions we have honored over 60K unsung heroes with Jefferson Awards. In 2007 we added youth programs which provide young people with skills that position them as leaders and changemakers in their communities, and in the process helps them believe in themselves and their own futures. To date in the Bay Area we have trained almost 2,000 youth to be social entrepreneurs who have generated over 2M volunteer hours (worth $50M) and have raised over $2M to benefit local and global communities. Looking forward, our 3 year goal is to expand our youth programs, training 700 Bay Area teenagers per year, with focus on a minimum of 50% of those being low- to moderateincome youth for whom engagement will provide improved pathways to educational and career success. We value the ecosystem of students, educators, partners and funders who believe, as we do, that acts of service become a catalyst for change and hope you will support our ongoing efforts to develop young leaders and to promote public service as a key to social impact.
Bay Area Region
OUR IMPACT Students in Action leaves a big impact in our lives because we feel like we have the power and the ability to make a difference in someone’s life. It taught us valuable skills that can be utilized to help our community and also our personal lives. - Students in Action Participant from Oakland Unity High School, Oakland, CA
During the 2016/17 school year, approximately 119 organizations (87% local) were beneficiaries of Bay Area Student In Action fundraising or volunteer efforts, and an estimated 42,500 individuals were impacted.
Students fundraised $394,000 in donations and in-kind contributions
We trained 274 students from 38 Bay Area High Schools
Our students generated close to 265,000 volunteer hours
Our student impact is measured at $7.5 million in volunteer hours
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Jefferson Award Foundation
OUR YOUTH PROGRAMS Our youth service programs provide young people with skills that position them as leaders and change-makers in their communities – and in the process help them believe in themselves and in their own futures. A youth-created service opportunity JEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION
A youth leadership and development program
An incubator for social entrepreneurs
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CASE STUDY We engaged our school and community in a number of fundraising events in order to provide a holiday dinner and gift bags for 100+ disadvantaged members of our community. - Students in Action Participant from Raoul Wallenberg High School, San Francisco, CA
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Jefferson Awards youth feel empowered to make a difference 4
83%
Jefferson Awards youth feel better prepared for college and workforce
71%
At-risk youth who participate in Jefferson Awards programs go on to 4-year colleges
Bay Area Region
JOIN THE EXTRAORDINARY Our 3 year goal is to expand our programming to 100 Bay Area high schools and train an incremental 700 students per year, with a focus on low to moderate income youth. Ways you can support: • Become a Champion • Become a High School Hero by adopting one or more high schools
UNSUNG HEROES AWARD For more than a decade, our partners KPIX television and KCBS radio, have taken the brand of the Jefferson Awards and awarded over 600 grassroots unsung heroes. We provide these heroes with a platform to multiply impact, and inspire millions of viewers to do something, too.
Ways you can participate: • Nominate an Unsung Hero for a Jefferson Award • Participate in a Lead360 Project • Start an SIA Club at Your High School
email: f.statom@jeffersonawards.org phone: 510.407.0643 mail: 180 Grand Avenue, Suite 310 Oakland, CA 94612
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Jefferson Award Foundation
OUR CHAMPIONS & SUPPORTERS Champions are organizations that partner with Jefferson Awards Foundation to engage in meaningful public service and celebrate their communities by: • Empowering programs through direct funding and in-kind support • Volunteering through one-on-one coaching at schools • Facilitating Students In Action leadership trainings
•Coaching at high schools or acting as a GlobeChanger mentors • Bringing the Jefferson Awards to employee and community recognition
San Francisco Giants Tom Steyer & Kat Taylor
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Bay Area Region
HIGH SCHOOL HEROES These organizations and individuals help us to support the Students In Action program at the local level by adopting one or more schools and underwriting the cost of the program. Tim Bussey Charles Schwab Foundation Lorraine & Noah Cohen Maureen Coslett Community Bank of the Bay Kimberly Cooley Valerie Cuevas William & Barbara Duhamel Jr. EACH Foundation Fremont Bank Darel Greene Mary Hentges Jackson Ladder Company James H. Khoe, DDS Amy Lesnick & Mark Roach Martin Linder Michael Fong & Darien Louie MUFG Union Bank Melody Phipps Star Plaxton-Moore & Andrew Moore Jack & Jodie Russi The Shorenstein Company Antonio & Teresa Silva The Harry Singer Foundation Lisa Spinali David & Diane Thompson Marie Wolbach
ATHLETIC CHAMPIONS
We are particularly indebted to the San Francisco Giants for providing home plate recognition to these youth. Pitcher Hunter Strickland has represented the San Francisco Giants, accompanying these teens during each home plate ceremony, and providing inspirational remarks with the students at our year-end celebration. In addition, San Francisco Giants World Series pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has become a Jefferson Awards Foundation Ambassador, speaking to the impact of our programs at events.
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Jefferson Award Foundation
Most importantly for corporations like ours, the Champion program offers the opportunity to recognize our own employees and their involvement with their communities. - June Sugiyama, Vodafone Americas Foundation -​Champion and Boardmember
THANK YOU TO OUR EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP Jack Russi, Deloitte LLP (Chair) Larry Baer, San Francisco Giants Jolie Bales, TechSoup Global Sandra Bass, UC Berkeley Public Service Center Lorraine Cohen, Deloitte Tax LLP Jose Corona, Office of the Mayor, City of Oakland Shana Daum, San Francisco Giants Marlon Evans, nestGSV Doug Harvill, CBS Radio Amy Lesnick, Pledge 1% Ronnie Lott, All Stars Helping Kids Darien Louie, East Bay Economic Development Alliance Nathan Nayman, Tideline Marine Group, Inc. Star Plaxton-Moore, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good John Power, The Volunteer Center Wade Rose, Dignity Health Lisa Spinali, Cross Sector Independent Consultant Freda Statom, Jefferson Awards Foundation June Sugiyama, Vodafone Americas Foundation Taj Tashombe, Oakland Athletics David Thompson, Reed Smith Loretta Walker, AT&T California Kevin Walsh, KPIX-TV KBCW-TV San Francisco / KSTW-TV Seattle