2011

Brian W. Buzby of Durham: Executive Director of the North Carolina Conservation Network

Susan H. Cupito of Greensboro: Director of Programs, YWCA of Greensboro

Margaret P. Elliott of Winston-Salem: Executive Director, Crisis Control Ministry

Claudia Horwitz of Mebane: Executive Director of stone circles at The Stone House

Celia A. Pistolis of Chapel Hill: Assistant Director of Advocacy and Compliance, Legal Aid of North Carolina

 

2010

Christopher J. Canfield: Executive Director/Vice President, Audubon North Carolina, Pittsboro

Amy Eades Fisher: Executive Director, Rape Crisis Center of Catawba County, Granite Falls

Deeanna Hale-Holland: Prevention Director, Coastal Horizons Center, Wilmington

Francisco J. Risso: Executive Director, Western North Carolina Workers' Center, Morganton

Robin Whittington: Executive Director, Wilkes Adult Development Activity Program, North Wilkesboro

 

2009

Gregory Bounds: CEO, Goshen Medical Center, Inc. Faison

Lisa Deniese Twiggs: Executive Director, Family Resources of Cherokee County, Inc., Murphy

James Brooks: Executive Director, Project Compassion, Chapel Hill

Doris Howington: Executive Director, The Wright's Center, Inc., Rocky Mount

Jackie Thamm: Executive Director, Friend to Friend Crisis Center, Carthage

 

 

2008

Kathryn Hodges: Co-Executive Director, Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services, Pittsboro

Susie Jones: Executive Director, Foothills Conservancy, Morganton

Kenneth Schorr: Executive Director, Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont, Charlotte

Ann Miller Woodford: Executive Director, One Dozen Who Care, Andrews

Karla Haynes-Elmore: Executive Director, Cleveland County CDC, Shelby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007

Betty T. Bailey: Executive Director, Rural Advancement Foundation International, Pittsboro

Debra Tyler-Horton: Executive Director, NC Justice Center, Raleigh

Dot Chamber Ehlers: Executive Director, 11thJudicial District ReEntry, Smithfield

Earline Middleton: Vice President, Agency Services and Programs of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, Raleigh

Jeanne Tedrow: Executive Director, Passage Home, Raleigh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006

Catherine Ahrendsen: Founder and Executive Director, A Helping Hand, Chapel Hill

Dorothy L. Hunt: Executive Director, Life Line Outreach, Inc., Henderson

Alan McGregor: Director of Philanthropic Programs, Southern Rural Development Initiative,Asheville

Mary Tay Bynum: Executive Director, Homekeeping Mortgage Default Counseling,Greensboro

Leah J. Wise: Executive Director, Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network,Durham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005

Carol Coulter: Executive Director, Ashe County Partnership for Children, Jefferson

Stephen J. Dear: Executive Director, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Carrboro

Janice S. Johnson: Executive Director, AIDS Community Residence Association, Durham

June Todd Smith: Executive Director, Region A Partnership for Children, Sylva

Tracy Wilkes: Executive Director, DREAMS of Wilmington, Wilmington

 

 

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