San Diego Council on Literacy
Leadership Award for Literacy
The inaugural San Diego Council on Literacy’s Leadership Award for Literacy was presented to the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1999 and was formerly known as the San Diego Council on Literacy/San Diego Union-Tribune Leadership Award for Literacy. This annual award is presented to organizations and individuals who have brought outstanding support to the Council’s literacy efforts. Examples of this support are listed here:
- Outstanding contributions which benefit literacy in the San Diego region.
- Consistent contributions to the literacy effort in San Diego County in previous, consecutive years, as well as in the current year.
- Contributions that show promise for continued, greater support for literacy in coming years.
The following organizations have been honored:
1999
San Diego Union-Tribune
Intuit National University
2000
matthews/mark The Dr. Seuss Foundation
2001
Burnham Way Foundation
2002
William D. Lynch Foundation for Children
2003
Fieldstone Foundation
2004
Manpower
2005
California Coast Credit Union
2006
Dr. Robert Singer and Judith Harris
2007
Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation
2008
Darlene & Donald Shiley
2009
McDonald’s of San Diego County/Ronald McDonald House Charities
2010
Broadway San Diego
2011
U.S. Bank
2012
Walcher Communications
2013
Weingart Foundation
2014
Drew Schlosberg
2018
Jeff Light
2019/2020
No awards presented
2021
Cloudcast Media/Charles Parisi
2022
Molina Foundation Migel Acosta/San Diego County Library
2023
ABC 10News Nuffer Smith Tucker Smart Kids/Ron Berry
2024
Kaiser Permanente La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club Mission Federal Credit Union