Past SCI Idealist Award Recipients

2024

2024 Award Winners

Nora Moreno Cargie, President, Point32Health Foundation; Vice President, Corporate Citizenship

Ayele Shakur, President, Redstone Family Foundation

Jean Dolin Rising Idealist, Founder, Boston LGBTQ+ Museum

2023

2023 Award Winners

Natanja Craig Oquendo, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund

Michael Curry, Esq., President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Pam Y. Eddinger, PhD, President of Bunker Hill Community College

2022

2022 Award Winners

Juan Fernando Lopera, Beth Israel Lahey Health’s inaugural Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

Dr. Makeeba McCreary, President of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund

James Morton, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston

2021

2021 Award Winners

Betty Francisco, General Counsel, CEO Boston Impact Initiative and Co-Founder, Amplify Latinx and Latina Circle

Paul Francisco, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Workforce Development Programs at State Street Corporation

Yolanda Coentro, President and CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP)

2020

2020 Award Winners

Jay Ash, President & CEO of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership

Sandra Cotterell, CEO of Codman Square Health Center

2019

2019 Award Winners

Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., CEO of IBA–Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción

Bob Rivers, Chair and CEO of Eastern Bank

2018

2018 Award Winner

Carol Fulp, CEO of The Partnership

2017

2017 Award Winner

David Shapiro, CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership

2016

2016 Award Winners

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, Founder, Do the Write Thing

Rev. Ray Hammond, Chairman and Co-Founder, Boston TenPoint Coalition

2015

2015 Award Winners

Eric Schwarz, Citizen Schools Co-Founder & Former CEO; Co-Founder & CEO, College for Social Impact

Benjamin Zander, Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

2014

2014 Award Winners

Charlie Rose, Senior Vice President & Dean, City Year

Kevin Washington, Former CEO, YMCA of Greater Boston, Current CEO of the YMCA of the USA

2013

2013 Award Winners

Robert Lewis, Jr., Former Vice President for Program, The Boston Foundation; Founder & President, The BASE

Josh Kraft, CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Boston

2012

2012 Award Winners

Bob Giannino, CEO, UAspire

Alan Trefler, Founder & CEO, Pegasystems

Pam Trefler, Trustee, The Trefler Foundation

2011

2011 Award Winners

2011

Ophelia Dahl, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Partners in Health

Judith Kidd, Retired Associate Dean for Student Life, Harvard College;

Former Board Chair, Brookline Community Foundation

2010

2010 Award Winners

Susan Musinsky, Executive Director, Social Innovation Forum

Saskia Epstein, Former CEO, Room to Grow; Co-Founder & CEO, Power Launch

Paul Epstein, Social Worker, Town of Brookline, and Foundation To Be Named Later Co-Founder

2009

2009 Award Winners

Jarrett Barrios, Former President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation; President, Red Cross of Los Angeles

Marisa Luse, Co-Founder SCI Dorchester; Program Manager, Discover Roxbury

2008

2008 Award Winners

Constance Perry, Facilitator, Traces of the Trade; Consultant

Dain Perry, Facilitator, Traces of the Trade; Financial Services Representative, Northwestern Mutual Life (retired)