Adams Avenue Business Association: For orchestrating an unlikely coalition between merchants, the Normal Heights Community Association, the San Diego Unified School District, and the United Methodist Church to find a solution to overcrowding at John Adams Elementary School
Conflict Management Program for the Juvenile Ranch Facility at Campo: For developing a successful peer mediation program that teaches tools for resolving conflicts among residents at the facility as well as lifelong skills to use when residents re-enter society
Mercy Outreach Surgical Team of Scripps Mercy Hospital: For providing the gift of life-changing corrective surgery to children on both sides of the border, enabling them to interact with others and live fully from a new base of self-esteem
San Diego Dance Institute: For developing innovative arts instruction programs that teach school children the basic principles of conflict resolution: mutual respect and tolerance, collaborative problem solving, and creative self expression
Star 100.7 FM’s “Jeff and Jer” Show: For reacting to a caller’s concerns about domestic violence in a way that not only found immediate solutions for her situation, but also spawned innovative partnerships that will bring new long term solutions to San Diego’s victims of spousal abuse


