Tuesday, October 2nd is the date for the 62nd Annual Dinner of the Bay Area Council. The gala evening celebration recognizes exceptional achievements of individuals and families who have advanced San Francisco Bay Area-based businesses to positions of national and international prominence and who have enriched the civic life of the San Francisco Bay Area community.
This year the Council will honor three extraordinary people. They are:
Mimi Silbert is co-founder and CEO of the Delancy Street Foundation. Delancey Street is the country's leading residential self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom. Started in 1971 with 4 people in a San Francisco apartment, Delancey Street has served many thousands of residents, in 5 locations throughout the United States. Residents at Delancey Street range from teenagers to senior citizens, and include men and women and all races and ethnicities. The average resident has been a hard-core drug and alcohol abuser, has been in prison, is unskilled, functionally illiterate, and has a personal history of violence and generations of poverty.
The minimum stay at Delancey Street is 2 years while the average resident remains for almost 4 years – drug, alcohol and crime-free. During their time at Delancey Street, residents receive a high school equivalency degree (GED) and are trained in 3 different marketable skills. Beyond academic and vocational training, residents learn important values, and the social and interpersonal skills that allow them to live successfully in the mainstream of society.
Mimi Silbert, as a criminal justice planner and evaluator, has directed the evaluation of over 100 projects through such agencies as the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Corrections, and the John D. Rockefeller Foundation. She has designed adult and juvenile corrections master plans for numerous cities and states, evaluated the prison system for California Department of Corrections, and designed and conducted the largest study in the country on prostitution and sexual assault, considered a breakthrough at the time, and a field in which she has published extensively. She wrote, designed, and implemented a revamp of San Francisco’s juvenile justice system which independent evaluators called “phenomenally successful”. In her 40 years as a trainer, Silbert has designed curriculae and provided training to over 50 police, sheriff and probation departments.Scott McNealy is co-founder and Chairman of Sun Microsystems. McNealy, 52, is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. From 1984 to 2006, McNealy served as chief executive officer and chairman at Sun, steering the Company to constant innovation in open, network computing.
In his 22 years at the helm, McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the company as the model of corporate integrity. In 1986, he took Sun public, creating one of the most notable publicly traded technology companies.
Ed Penhoet is President & CEO of the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Ed served as dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1981, he co-founded Chiron Corporation and served as its chief executive officer until 1998. For 10 years prior to founding Chiron, Ed was a faculty member of the Biochemistry Department of U.C. Berkeley.Ed currently serves as the vice chairman of the Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee which oversees the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created by the passage of Proposition 71, the stem cell initiative. Ed earned his A.B. in biology from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Washington. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego.
Established in September 2000, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life for future generations. The Foundation’s science-based, results-driven orientation stems from the principles and interests of Gordon and Betty Moore. Gordon Moore is founder of Intel Corporation. The Foundation operates proactively in three specific areas of focus — environmental conservation, science, and the San Francisco Bay Area—where a significant and measurable impact can be achieved.
The gala and dinner will he held in the grand ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. For more information or to purchase tickets please follow this link.
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