The Yerba Buena Community Excellence Awards are issued yearly at the Annual Meeting and serve to highlight those who show outstanding participation in improving our neighborhood. Because of the events this year and the restraints that do not permit the usual participation, we are going to refocus the guidelines for which we previously considered applicants which included cleaning, neighborhood events and beautification, and in general activities that required a great deal of interaction and contact which were not permissible for the better part of this year.
Instead we would like to consider candidates who have excelled in the following areas:
- Adaptation: how well an individual or organization has reorganized its efforts to help the community
- Service: how an individual or organization has helped to serve those devastated by the social and economic impact of COVID 19
- Engagement: how an individual or organization has made, somehow, this situation bearable either through programming or engagement or even entertainment
If you are or know someone who would be a candidate for this award, please fill out this form and get it back to us by October 30th by email to rciccarone@ybcbd.org
Previous Community Excellence Award Winners
Yerba Buena Community Excellence Award Recipients
2018
- Excellence in Championing a Better Yerba Buena – Supervisor Jane Kim
- Excellence in Community Placemaking – Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
- Excellence in Community Service –
- Clean Team – Jesus Pena
- Community Guide – Calvin May
- Excellence in Community Beautification – CMG Landscape Architecture
- Excellence in Community Beautification – Sites Unseen
2019
- Excellence in Community Service
- Clean Team – Lydia Hernandez
- Community Guide – Robert Owens
- Excellence in Improvements to the Public Realm – Moscone with SF Travel and Public Works
- Excellence in Community Placemaking – Sunday Streets
- Excellence in Community Building – Yerba Buena Alliance
2020
- Excellence in Community Service
- Clean Team – Elmer Boone
- Excellence in Public Art – Patrick & Co. for their mural on Minna Street
- Excellence in Public Realm Improvements – Public Works for 2nd Street Improvement Project
- Excellence in Community Promotion – SFMOMA
- Excellence in Community Spirit – SPIN
- Excellence in Community Stewardship – The Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy
2021
- Excellence in Community Service
- Clean Team/Steam Cleaner – Tommy Hill
- Community Guide – Lagina Wyatt
- Excellence in Community Engagement – Children’s Creativity Museum
- Excellence in Adaptation – Museum of the African Diaspora
