Thursday, June 17, 2010
Contents |
Video Highlights from the 2010 Volunteer Recognition Event
Photo Gallery
Changing Lives Spotlights
2010 Volunteer Award Recipients
| Award Title | Award Recipient |
Clara Barton Award - This is our most prestigious award, designed to promote superior performance among all volunteers and to honor the top volunteer of the year. It recognizes a truly exceptional volunteer, one who has served for a minimum of 5 years and has made an outstanding contribution to the success of a particular service area or project activity, or who has served in multiple capacities and maintained service excellence. | Richard Gallis |
Community Services Award - This award recognizes an exceptional volunteer or team of volunteers with a clear commitment to, and excellence in their service and impact to the surrounding community (includes communities at large). This person or team must have served for a minimum of one year and have worked within areas such as, but not limited to, Community Outreach, the Emergency Communication Center, International Tracing Services, and Project Search. | |
Corporate Community Partnership Award - This award is given to an organization that has helped the American Red Cross in Greater New York help others by mobilizing volunteers and promoting ARC/GNY’s volunteer program. | BlueCross/BlueShield/Wellpoint |
| Emerging Leader Award - This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated strong leadership qualities and budding potential in at least two of the leadership areas noted above during their early tenure at the Chapter. They have had a positive impact on the area in which they serve and have been viewed as a good role model for others to emulate. | Mary O' Shaughnessy |
First Year Award - This award honors an exceptional volunteer who has served for less than one year and has made an outstanding contribution to the success of a particular service area or project activity. | |
| Innovation Award - An award that recognizes an individual or team that has developed a new process, concept, model or initiative that has made ARC/GNY more relevant to the community that we serve, or has taken an existing service that we provide and made it more efficient. Their innovative idea, capturing out-of-the-box thinking, was developed by working collaboratively with other departments, Chapters, or another non-profit in the community. | Shuhung Hong Lily Too Corina Stonebanks Marsa Kindl-Omuse Monica Mei Noriko Takatsuka Jenny Chun Diep Nguyen Mario Fontenla Carlos Rodriguez Clarissa Espinosa Nancy Soto Elizabeth Musso |
| Leadership Award - This award recognizes an outstanding individual who exemplifies true leadership qualities: inspiring others, compassionate leadership, demonstrable commitment to the mission, visionary pursuit of excellence, courage to act on beliefs, broad strategic and creative thinker. Their role as a leader in the last year has had a profound impact on the work of ARC/GNY. | Jill Bellinson |
Volunteer Partnership Award - This award exemplifies and promotes a cooperative partnership between a volunteer and a paid staff member. It honors outstanding job performance on a project, in an office or in a line of service. | Zofia Bolewicz |
Support Services Award - This award honors an exceptional volunteer or group of volunteers. This person or group must have served for a minimum of one year and functioned in a support services role. Volunteers eligible for this award may work in areas such as Accounting, Administrative support, Human Resources, Facilities Management, Information Technology, Communications and Marketing, Public Affairs, Volunteer Resources and Financial Development. | Mary Beth Aberlin |
| West Point Award | Gael James |
| Harriet Demarest Congeniality Award | Joan C. Finnegan |
| Jean MacArthur Volunteer of the Year Award | Joyce Morse |
2010 Award Nominees
CLARA BARTON AWARD
Rebecca Callahan
Jean Cappello
Lee Karasik
COMMUNITY SERVICES AWARD
Disaster Planning & Response Team (Andy Li, Jo Lin, Patrick Logan, Stacie Miller, Danielle McDonough, Morgan Dixon)
Lower Hudson Valley Board of Trustees (Adam Lipson, Scott Baird, John Butler, Tony Brown, John Carroll, Mary I. Fiore, Robert Gould, John R. Levin, Barbara Lewy, Maria Isabel Souto, Lynn Lozer, David Stark, Matt Rand, Bonnie Werk, Sandra A. Schmidt, Bonnie Ossman)
CORPORATE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Wal-Mart
EMERGING LEADER AWARD
Michael Hollis, Disaster Staffing
Min Kim, Disaster Action Team
Sara (Sal) Mink, Mass Care/Sheltering
Mary O’Shaughnessy, Disaster Planning & Response
Kathleen Preston, Disaster Planning and Response, AmeriCorps National Preparedness and Response (NPRC)
Gloria Smith, Disaster Staffing
Catherine Whiteman, Disaster Planning & Response, AmeriCorps National Preparedness and Response (NPRC)
FIRST YEAR AWARD
Ashma Adhikari, Community Development
Jeanne Finestone, Disaster Planning & Response
Beth Herling, People Resources
Gretchen Kail, FSIM
Eunice Ok, Community Development
Alana Sweeny, Community Development
Rosanne Zito, Community Development
INNOVATION AWARD
Matt Blair, Disaster Health Services
Bill Giles, Disaster Action Team
Volunteer Advocacy Committee (Fred Leahy, Sonja Haber, Nancy Soto, Anne Squadron, Fernando Morales, Gary Chin, Jeremy Cohen, Amy Fox, Jo Lin, Rebecca Callahan, Dottie Brier, Maureen Miller, Isabel Hernandez, Lana Mullen)
NPRC AmeriCorps Team (Morgan Dixon, Andy Li, Jo Lin, Patrick Logan, Danielle McDonaugh, Stacie Miller, Kathleen Preston, Catherine Whiteman)
LEADERSHIP AWARD
David Gonzalez, Disaster Action Team
Andiswa Heinegg, Disaster Planning & Response
Antonella Jimenez, Hunter Red Cross Club
Ann Kaplan, Major Gifts, Development
Alonzo (Fred) Leahy, Development
Eddie McQuillan, Disaster Planning and Response
Lana Mullen, People Resources
Mary O'Shaughnessy, Disaster Action Team
Carlos Scott, Disaster Planning and Response
Oonagh Turitto, Disaster Planning and Response
Richard Sanford, Disaster Planning and Response
Stephen Wolfe, Disaster Services Human Resources (DSHR)
SUPPORT SERVICES AWARD
Paulette Brown, Community Outreach
Rebecca Callahan, Marketing & Public Affairs
Joy Carol, Annual Giving, Development
Stephany Demaso, People Resources
Amy Fratkin, People Resources
Patricia Fuchs, Annual Giving, Development
Robert Reeg, Logistics
Maria Cruz Santana, Mass Care
Bertha Wright, Community Development
Lower Hudson Valley Disaster Assessment Team (Jeanne Finestone, Jennifer Ayers, James Dowling, Stephen Korba)
VOLUNTEER PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Curtis Lim, People Resources
Years of Service
40 Years 35 Years 30 Years 25 Years 20 Years 15 Years | 10 Years | 5 Years | Henry Good | Jane Pearson |
In Memoriam
Patrick Casey
Harriett Haggerty
Frank Ryder
Larry Smith
Past Years
For questions regarding this year’s Annual Volunteer Recognition Event, please contact Staff Engagement at staffengagement@nyredcross.org or call 212.875.2237.
