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LEADERSHIP

For more than 30 years, The Community Foundation and our donors have demonstrated a deep commitment to our diverse communities. 

Going forward, working together we can bring positive change to the most difficult issues facing our region today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Linowes Awardees

 

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

 

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2006

 

Elizabeth Clavel Love

Board Trustee/Project Coordinator, Escuela Bolivia; Co-Chair, ESOL/HILT Citizens Advisory Committee

 

Lee Evans

Acting Principal, Magruder High School

 

Martin Jenkins (Youth Awardee)

Youth Participant and Board Member, Facilitating Leadership in Youth

Charise van Liew,

Co-Founder/Executive Director, Facilitating Leadership in Youth

[Note: Charise and Martin are Co-Awardees]

 

Mary McCurty

Lead Facilitator, Community Empowerment Program, IMPACT Silver Spring

 

Ayize Sabater

Co-Founder/Director, M.O.M.I.E.’s TLC; Co-Founder/Board Member, Community Harvest

 

Doris Watkins

Co-Coordinator, Tellin’ Stories Project, Teaching for Change

 

 

2005

 

Billy L. Chandler

Staff Interviewer, Visitors’ Services Center

 

Robert E. (Bobby) Coward, Jr.

Co-Founder/Director, DIRECT Action, & Chair/Spokesperson, Capital Area ADAPT

 

Han-Hoan (Hoan) Duc Dang

President, Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association (MVMA) & Board Member, Impact Silver Spring

 

Martha Delgado (Youth Awardee)

Youth Advisory Board Member & Peer Educator, Identity, Inc.

 

William (Bill) and Sharon Murphy

Founders & Co-Directors, Mary House

 

Isabel van Isschot

Interpreter Services Department Director, La Clínica Del Pueblo

 

 

2004

 

Wanda Fox

Principal, Brightwood Elementary School

 

Brandon Haynes (Youth Awardee)

Advocate, Homelessness and Education

 

Renee Milligan, Ph.D., RNC

Family Nurse Practitioner, Pregnancy Aid Center & President, College Park Boys & Girls Club

 

Dario Muralles (Youth Awardee)

Intern, CASA of Maryland & Board Member, Maryland Latino Coalition for Justice

 

Rickey Payton, Sr.

President & CEO, Urban Nation H.I.P. - H.O.P. Choir

 

James Stephenson

Volunteer, Montgomery County Public Schools

 

 

2003

 

Geneva Barr

President, Montana Terrace Resident Council & Representative, Board of Commissioners, DC Housing Authority

 

Carlos Garcia

President, Higher Achievement Program Board of Directors

 

Deb Gottesman, Buzz Mauro & Michael Rodgers

Co-Directors, The Theatre Lab

 

Mary Lou Tietz

Executive Director, Community Family Life Services

 

Roberto Villarroél

President, Culmore Worker’s Center

 

 

2002

 

Dorris Juanita Darden & Jacqueline M. Massey

Co-Presidents, Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation

 

Carmen L. Fernandez

Founder, Hispanics Against Child Abuses and Neglect & Morning Star Program

 

Agnes Kariuki

Founder and Educational Coordinator, YMCA Nob Hill Homework Program

 

Anne Marie Willis

Special Education Preschool Teacher, Ashlawn Elementary School

 

Michael Steve Zanders

Founder and Athletic Director, Woodland Tigers Youth Sports and Educational Program

 

 

2001

 

Fred Beam

Performing Artist, Founding Executive Director, Invisible Hands, Inc.

 

Joseph S. Emmerich, Jr.

Founding Director, Chillum Youth Project

 

Ana Gonzalez

Founding Coordinator, Women’s Empowerment Program, CASA of Maryland

 

James “Chucky” Moore

Substance Abuse Counselor, Alexandria Public Schools STEP Program

Founder, Peer Advisory Program, and Co-founder, Untouchables, Youth Mentoring Program

 

Kimberley A. Shellman

Child Advocate, Founding Executive Director, Safe Shores: The D.C. Children’s Advocacy Center

 

 

2000

 

Fabian Barnes

Founding Artistic Director, The Dance Institute of Washington

 

Frankie Blackburn

Civic Activist & Founding Executive Director, Impact Silver Spring

 

Deborah L. McFadden

Founding President, International Children’s Alliance

 

Patricia Nalls

AIDS Activist, Founding Executive Director, The Women’s Collective

 

Hien T. Nguyen

Founding President, Washington D.C. Vietnamese Community Center

 

 

1999

 

Keter Betts (1928-2005)

Musician and Educator, Master Bass Player, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

 

Sandy Dang

Founding Executive Director, Asian American LEAD

 

Katie Fitzgerald

Civic Activist, DC ACORN

 

Dr. David Hilfiker

Medical Director, Joseph’s House

 

Reverend Norma Jennings

Director of Resource Development, FAST National Training and Evaluation Center

 

 

1998

 

Father Tesfamiam Baraki

Catholic Chaplain, Howard University Hospital, Former Pastor, Kidane-Mehret Ge’ez Rite, Catholic Church

 

Commander Hand Carde (1947-1998)

UN Navy Retired, AIDS Activist

 

Dorothea Ferrell

President, Barry Farm Resident Council

 

Pilar Laugel

Founding Executive Director, Language, ETC…

 

Paula Poulis

Principal, Cool Spring Elementary School

 

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