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Palo Alto Weekly By Elizabeth Lorenz
Five familiar Midpeninsula residents with a tradition of community service and giving have been named finalists for the second Thomas W Ford Award, given by the Peninsula Community Foundation.
The winner will be announced at the Bud Colligan
co-founded Silicon Valley Community Ventures, whose mission is to provide resources and capital to businesses that have the potential to bring significant economic gains to low-income communities in the Bay Area.
Now a partner at Accel Partners in Palo Alto, he is a leader in information technologies. He co-founded Macromedia in 1992, after previously working at Apple Computer's Macintosh division. He is on the board of OICW, a
job-training center in Menlo Park, and has previously served on the board of the Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation. Environmentalist Mary Davey
of Los Altos Hills is another finalist. She belongs to or has been affiliated with about 36 environmental and other nonprofit organizations, and served on the Los Altos Hills Town Council for seven years. She co-founded the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, and now serves as one of its elected directors.
LeonardEly
is as well known for his business acumen as he is for his philanthropy. A former Chevrolet auto dealership owner, Ely has been involved with more than 30 nonprofit organizations and foundations. He is on the
board of the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, Menlo School, the Museum of American Heritage, the Palo Alto Weekly, and the advisory board of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Research Institute. According to Anne Jacobs of
the Peninsula Stroke Association, who nominated Ely, he is "the flame that kindled the Community Foundation Silicon Valley." When he started volunteering, the foundation had raised $700,000 and within three years, it had
$3 million. Former State Sen. Becky Morgan
and her husband Jim, the CEO of Applied Materials, are also being honored for their "investments of time, energy, wisdom and funds." Becky Morgan is the former CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, and also served as a Palo Alto school board member and Santa Clara County supervisor. The couple has contributed most recently to eight organizations, including Becky serving on the board of Adolescent Counseling Services in Palo Alto, to establishing a teen mothers' program for the local Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. Jim Morgan serves on the board of Cisco Systems as well as many national and local organizations.
Former vice chairman and chief financial officer of Syntex Corp. Hans Wolf
is another nonprofit leader honored for his efforts. His passion has included involvement in organizations that help children, from the Children's Health Council to the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and the Resourcd Area for Teachers(RAFT). His nominator, Mary Simon of RAFT, said Wolf "built his life on solid values stemming back from his own upbringing." He came to the United States at the age of 8 in 1936, having escaped from Nazi Germany with his family.
The first Thomas W. Ford Award was given to William L. Butler in 1999. Butler owns a general contracting firm. The award selection committee members are: Butler; Stanford President John Hennessy; See's Candies President
Charles N. (Chuck) Higgins; Duncan Matteson, chairman of The Matteson Companies and chairman of the board of Greater Bay Bancorp.; Cisco Systems chairman of the board John Morgridge; and Sharon Williams, executive director of OICW.
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