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2017 Annual Awards Luncheon

June 11, 2017 | Presidio Golf & Concordia Club, San Francisco 

Keynote Speaker – Mark Leno

Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, 11th Senate District, was elected to the California Senate in 2008. During his tenure in the Legislature, Senator Leno has fought for better schools and access to higher education, foster youth, a cleaner and sustainable environment, affordable health care, improved transportation and renewable energy, safer streets and equal rights for all Californians…
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2017 Award Recipients

HANNAH G. SOLOMON AWARD – AMY RASSEN


Amy Rassen is a recognized leader in non-profit management with extensive experience developing and overseeing highly complex non-profit organizations.
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INSPIRING LEADERSHIP AWARD – LYNN BUNIM

Lynn Burrows Bunim currently serves as Director – Special Projects for Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP).  Following a forty-year career in government and community relations at “the phone company,” Lynn brought her coalition building and public policy experience to WIPP. …
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OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDLINDA KURTZ


Linda Kurtz is a member of NCJW SF Section since 1982 and recipient of the 2012 Hannah G. Solomon Award. She specialized in issues of family safety working with Shalom Bayit and JFCS Task Force on Domestic Violence, and California Family Action…
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OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD DENA GARDI

Dena Gardi is a SF native and lives in San Francisco with her husband, John, three children and a big, happy dog.   She is a graduate of SF State University and holds an elementary teaching credential. She taught briefly, then, entered the corporate world…
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Photo: Margarita Nikolova