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