Jefferson Awards for Public Service explained

Founder:	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Robert Taft Jr. Samuel Beard
Location:	Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Industry:	Public Service, Non-Profit
Homepage:	http://www.jeffersonawards.org
Foundation:	1972

The Jefferson Awards Foundation was created in 1972 by the American Institute for Public Service. The Jefferson Awards are given at both local and national levels. 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.^[1]

National awards

The awards are presented each year during a ceremony in Washington, 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.

History

In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft Jr., and Samuel 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.

Jefferson Awards Foundation

The Jefferson Awards Foundation is a non-profit organization that "recognizes, inspires and activates volunteerism and public service in communities, workplaces and schools across America."

List of all past national winners

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	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
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
1977	Michael Mansfield	Art Buchwald	Howard Rusk	Max Cleland
1978	Hubert H. Humphrey	Paul Mellon	Jerry Lewis	Bernard Powell
1979	Kenneth Gibson, William Donald Schaefer, Coleman A. Young	Howard Jarvis	Jesse Jackson	Denis Hayes
1980	Cyrus R. Vance	Norman Borlaug	Allard Lowenstein	US Olympic Hockey Team
1981	Warren Christopher	Walter Cronkite	Marva Collins	David Stockman
1982	Howard H. Baker	Bob Hope	Claude Pepper	Henry Cisneros
1983	Paul A. Volcker	Kirk Douglas	Helen Hayes	Jan Scruggs
1984	William H. Webster	J. Peter Grace	Maude E. Callen	Sally Ride
1985	James A. Baker, III	Lee Iacocca	Betty Ford	Trevor FerrellMary Beth Tober
1986	George P. Shultz	H. Ross Perot	Eugene Lang	Robert Hayes
1987	Justice William J. Brennan	Irving Brown	Ginetta Sagan	Steven Jobs
1988	C. Everett Koop	James W. Rouse	Fr. Bruce Ritter	Marlee Matlin
1989	Paul Nitze	Leo Cherne	Kimi Gray	Marc Buoniconti
1990	General Colin Powell	Jimmy Carter	Jaime Escalante	Anne Donahue
1991	Dick Cheney	Robert C. Macauley	Marian Wright Edelman	Wendy Kopp
1992	Justice Thurgood Marshall	Faye Wattleton	Eunice Shriver	Michael Brown and Alan Khazei
1993	Carla Hills	James Burke	Arthur Ashe	Mary Taylor
1994	George Mitchell, Bob Michel	Jim and Sarah Brady	Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward	Wayne Meisel
1995	Justice Harry Blackmun	Walter H. Annenberg	Barbara Bush	Stacey Bess
1996	Sam Nunn	Brian Lamb	Rosalynn Carter	Andrea Jaeger
1997	Robert Dole	Nancy Brinker	Oseola McCarty	Michael Danziger
1998	Robert Rubin	Oprah Winfrey	Thaddeus S. Lott Sr.	Bobby Jindal
1999	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Elizabeth Dole	Millard Fuller	Anthony Shriver
2000	John Glenn	Elayne Bennett	Benjamin Carson, M.D.	Faith Hill
2001	Madeleine Albright	Ted Benna	Dorothy Height	Lance Armstrong
2002	Rudolph Giuliani	Lilly Tartikoff	Bill and Melinda Gates	Chad Pregracke		Ray Chambers
2003	Condoleezza Rice	Anne Douglas	Mathilde Krim	Matthew Meyer
2004	Justice Sandra Day O'Connor	Ken Burns	Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth	Kristen Lodal and Brian Kreiter
2005	Lee H. Hamilton, Thomas Kean	Vartan Gregorian	Dave Pelzer	Benjamin Shuldiner
2006	John Lewis	Michael Feinberg and David Levin	I. King Jordan	Peyton Manning
2007	Richard Daley	Jeffrey Sachs	Geoffrey Canada	Lindsay Hyde
2008	Joe Lieberman	Edward Jagen	Darell Hammond	Ocean Robbins
2009	Edward Kennedy	Greg Mortenson, Pamela Hawley	William (Bill) E. Milliken	Jennifer Staple^[2]
2010	Michael R. Bloomberg, Cory A. Booker	Paul Farmer, M.D.	Jim Gibbons	Tad Skylar Agoglia	Nnamdi Asomugha, Tyrus Thomas, Curtis Granderson, Stuart Holden, Dwight Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Justin Tuck, Lauryn Williams, Venus Williams, Ryan Zimmerman	Marlo Thomas,^[3]	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	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^[4]	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. and Branford Marsalis	Richard Proudfit^[5]	Amber Lynn Coffman	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^[6]
2013	Tom Coburn, Patrick Leahy^[7]	Elie Wiesel^[8]	Dolores Huerta^[9]	Neilesh Patel^[10]	Mark Ein^[11]		Sejal Hathi, Sam King, Alexis Werner	General Electric^[12]
2014	Gabby Giffords^[13]	Charles Best,^[14]	Andrew Shue^[15]	Pedro Jose Greer^[16]	Jack Andraka, Ryan Patrick^[17]	Mariano Rivera,^[18] James Thrash^[19]	Tom Brokaw^[20]	Maria Keller,^[21] Lillian Pravda	Weyerhaeuser
2015	Sonia Sotomayor^[22]	Jeffrey Skoll,^[23]	Ivan Hageman^[24]	Adam Braun^[25]	Lauren Bush^[26]	Fred Jackson,^[27]		Robby Novak & Brad Montague of Kid President^[28] Corinne Hindes & Katrine Kirsebom of Warm Winters ^[29]	Target Corporation^[30]
2016	Arne Duncan^[31]	Sean Parker^[32]	Kyle Zimmer^[33]	The Young American Soldier^[34]	Eric Decker^[35]	Billie Jean King^[36]	Sophia Sánchez-Maes^[37]	Salesforce
2017	Deval Patrick^[38]	Peter Diamandis, Sheila Johnson^[39]		Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi	Joe Torre	Harry Belafonte	Laurie Hernandez	Warby Parker
2018		Elaine Wynn	Bryan Stevenson	Alexis Jones	Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Long		Pia Phillips and Abbie Nelson	Master Card
2019		Scooter Braun	Mariska Hargitay	Morgan Guess	Von Miller, Shaquille O'Neal		Morgan Guess	Patagonia
2020		Kristen Bell	Patrick Lawler	Owen Colley	Larry Fitzgerald, Dawn Staley		Owen Colley	TOMS
2021	Dr. Anthony Fauci	Jessica Ladd	DeAndre Brown	Margot Bellon & Isabel Wang	John Calipari	Joan Ganz Cooney		JUST Goods
2022	General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost	Sharon McMahon	Paul Dreschnack, MD		Shane Battier	Leeza Gibbons	Ben Collier, James Kanoff, and Aidan Reilly, founders of The Farmlink Project

Local awards partners (partial listing)

In 1977, the Jefferson Awards began partnering with local newspapers and television stations.^[40]

• WQAD-TV
• WXOW
• KPIX
• WRTV (Multiplying Good awards)
• KBTX
• KOAA
• KBTX

See also

• List of awards for volunteerism and community service

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023-10-11 . San Francisco's 'Rev. G' honored with national Jefferson Award for service, seeking peace - CBS San Francisco . 2023-12-28 . www.cbsnews.com . en-US.
2. Web site: Jennifer Staples Receives Jefferson Award For Public Service . The Newtown Bee . June 19, 2009 . Crevier, Nancy.
3. Web site: Past Jefferson Award Recipients Multiplying Good . 2024-05-16 . www.multiplyinggood.org.
4. Web site: Past Jefferson Award Recipients Multiplying Good . 2024-05-16 . www.multiplyinggood.org.
5. Web site: Richard Proudfit wins the Jefferson Award. chapter-25.org. Sep 14, 2019.
6. Web site: News. Love Thy Neighbor. Sep 14, 2019.
7. Web site: Coburn, Leahy among Jefferson winners. Associated Press. POLITICO. Sep 14, 2019. December 24, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141224140218/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/tom-coburn-patrick-leahy-among-winners-of-jefferson-awards-93049.html. live.
8. Web site: Professor Elie Weisel at 2013 National Jefferson Awards in Washington, DC. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/9D3VPQ2QlXg . 2021-12-15 . live. Sep 14, 2019. www.youtube.com.
9. News: Dolores Huerta Receives National Award . Huffington Post . 20 June 2013 . 20 February 2020 . 3 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160803105712/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/dolores-huerta-receives-j_n_3471402.html . live .
10. Web site: Dr. Neilesh Patel DDS (Dr. Neilesh Patel DDS) Neilesh Patel 2011. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120122184629/http://www.drneileshpatel.com/ . 2012-01-22 .
11. Web site: Jefferson Awards Announces Strategic Alliance with the NFL Player Engagement, Charles Fazzino and IvyConnect, While Celebrating 41 Years of Honoring Service to Others . . . 23 July 2023 . June 19, 2013 . 23 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230723202444/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10849501.htm . dead .
12. Web site: Pam Daley, GE at 2013 National Jefferson Awards in Washington, DC. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/ottqYs2nmlY . 2021-12-15 . live. Sep 14, 2019. www.youtube.com.
13. News: Courage, Compassion & America's Best Kept Secret . Huffington Post . 11 June 2014 . 20 February 2020 . 24 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170824121308/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-jun-rowley/courage-compassion--ameri_b_5482924.html . live .
14. Web site: 42nd Jefferson Awards Celebrate The Impact Of Public Service. Jefferson Awards. Foundation. www.prnewswire.com. Sep 14, 2019. October 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201022105503/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/42nd-jefferson-awards-celebrate-the-impact-of-public-service-263641911.html. live.
15. Web site: NJ native Andrew Shue, of 'Melrose Place' fame, receives outstanding entrepreneur award. Eunice. Lee. Mar 4, 2014. nj.com. Sep 14, 2019. July 17, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220717021802/https://www.nj.com/essex/2014/03/nj_native_andrew_shue_melrose_place_actor_receives_outstanding_entrepreneur_award.html. live.
16. Web site: Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer to receive National Jefferson Award America's highest honor for public service - Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine . 2014-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141030161420/http://medicine.fiu.edu/news-and-media/2012/3/dr--pedro-greer-to-receive-national-jefferson-award-americas-highest-honor-for-public-service.html . 2014-10-30 . dead .
17. Web site: Ross . Garrett . Ryan Patrick receives Jefferson Award for public service | News | Penn State | State College | Daily Collegian . collegian.psu.edu . 2019-09-14 . 2022-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717021806/https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/article_498ec050-f753-11e3-9708-0017a43b2370.html . live .
18. Web site: Tom Brokaw, Mariano Rivera & Andrew Shue Receive a Jefferson Award for Public Service. PRWeb. Sep 14, 2019. March 8, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308092400/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11630195.htm. live.
19. Web site: The Redskins Blog James Thrash Honored For Continued Public Service. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903172831/http://blog.redskins.com/2014/06/18/james-thrash-honored-for-continued-public-service/ . 2014-09-03 .
20. Web site: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - CBS All Access. www.cbs.com. Sep 14, 2019. August 15, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060815220552/http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/exclusives/wahoo/archive/2002/10/archive17.shtml. live.
21. Web site: Maria Keller, Spring Superhero The Global Game Changers. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031059/http://theglobalgamechangers.com/maria-keller-spring-superhero/ . 2014-11-29 .
22. Web site: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at the Jefferson.... Getty Images. Sep 14, 2019. August 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210826110905/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-speaks-at-the-news-photo/477665636. live.
23. Web site: Skoll | Social Entrepreneurs Driving Large Scale Change. Sep 14, 2019. September 14, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190914012355/http://skoll.org/. live.
24. Web site: Jefferson Awards Foundation Honors Adam Braun, Fred Jackson, Ivan Hageman and 2015 National Recipients at Annual NYC Ceremony. PRWeb. Sep 14, 2019. March 5, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220305222459/http://www.prweb.com/releases/jeffersonawardsfoundation/annualgala/prweb12559152.htm. live.
25. Web site: Adam honored with prestigious Jefferson Award. 2015-03-05. 2015-08-13. 2015-06-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20150621223840/https://pencilsofpromise.org/adam-honored-prestigious-jefferson-award/. live.
26. News: When Making a Difference: Conversations with Lauren Bush Lauren of FEED . Huffington Post . 28 June 2015 . 20 February 2020 . 2 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202004927/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rai-mensah/when-making-a-difference-_b_7684304.html . live .
27. Web site: Fred Jackson receives national award for community efforts . 2015-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150908003817/http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/Fred-Jackson-receives-national-award-for-community-efforts/aa9b76d0-13cc-41b5-93b6-f51b39b0da11 . 2015-09-08 . dead .
28. News: Here's what we learned after spending five minutes with Kid President . USA Today . 2015-08-13 . 2015-08-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150807231227/http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/06/19/kid-president-is-just-a-normal-kid-who-makes-amazing-videos/ . live .
29. Web site: Warm Winters . 2016-02-18 . 2016-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307013726/http://warm-winters.org/ . live .
30. Web site: Jefferson Awards Foundation Names U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Kid President, Jeff Skoll, Lauren Bush Lauren and Target 2015 National Award Recipients . 2015-08-13 . 2015-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150705223344/http://www.prweb.com/releases/jeffersonawardsfoundation/DCgala2015/prweb12759898.htm . live .
31. News: Arne Duncan - #VoicesofJAF - Blog. 2016-07-06. Blog. 2017-09-25. en-US. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925180904/http://blog.jeffersonawards.org/2016/07/06/arne-duncan-voicesofjaf/. live.
32. News: Jefferson Award Winner: Sean Parker - Blog. 2016-06-13. Blog. 2017-09-25. en-US. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181023/http://blog.jeffersonawards.org/2016/06/13/jefferson-award-winner-sean-parker/. live.
33. News: Jefferson Award Winner: Kyle Zimmer, First Book - Blog. 2016-06-10. Blog. 2017-09-25. en-US. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181020/http://blog.jeffersonawards.org/2016/06/10/jefferson-award-winner-kyle-zimmer-first-book/. live.
34. Web site: And The Jefferson Award for Service Goes to…The Young American Soldier - Mission Continues Blog. www.missioncontinuesblog.org. en. 2017-09-25. 2016-03-05. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925132849/http://www.missioncontinuesblog.org/7258-2/. live.
35. News: Eric Decker Awarded 2016 Jefferson Award. 2017-09-25. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925180556/http://www.newyorkjets.com/photos/photo-gallery/Eric-Decker-Awarded-2016-Jefferson-Award/2920be1c-8386-41fe-8c60-4ceee4a60a8f. live.
36. News: Jefferson Awards Foundation Names Billie Jean King, Eric Decker and Salesforce 2016 National Public Service Award Recipients. PRWeb. 2017-09-25. 2016-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20160426200708/http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYC2016Ceremony/PublicServiceAwards/prweb13226733.htm. live.
37. News: Rising sophomore wins Jefferson Award for public service. 2016-07-14. YaleNews. 2017-09-25. en. 2016-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20161018043444/http://news.yale.edu/2016/07/14/rising-sophomore-wins-jefferson-award-public-service. live.
38. News: Jefferson Awards Foundation Honors Joe Torre, Deval Patrick, Sheila Johnson, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi as 2017 National Public Service Honorees. Foundation. The Jefferson Awards. GlobeNewswire News Room. 2017-09-25. en-US. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925132050/http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/06/12/1017697/0/en/Jefferson-Awards-Foundation-Honors-Joe-Torre-Deval-Patrick-Sheila-Johnson-Patrisse-Cullors-Alicia-Garza-and-Opal-Tometi-as-2017-National-Public-Service-Honorees.html?f=22&fvtc=5&fvtv=35850855. live.
39. News: Jefferson Awards Foundation Honors Harry Belafonte, Laurie Hernandez, Peter Diamandis and Warby Parker as 2017 National Public Service Award Recipients. 2017-09-25. en-US. 2017-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925133251/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jefferson-awards-foundation-honors-harry-110000952.html. live.
40. News: Capital Region Jefferson Awards Honor Local Volunteers . 31 August 2023 . Times Union (Albany) . 2023.