Touchstone Awards


The Touchstone Award recognizes and celebrates programs or projects for their leadership in transforming problems into opportunities and service into action. Each year, the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation chooses a theme and recognizes non-profits that have gone above and beyond in that area at an awards luncheon.

 

During the 2008 Touchstone Awards, we looked back at some of the former recipients of the Touchstone Award. The video can be viewed below.


 

Previous winners include:

  2011 - "Generosity, Civic Engagement & Inclusiveness"

Generosity:

Grand Marais Art Colony & Second Harvest Northern Lakes Foob Bank

Civic Engagement:

Sustainable Twin Ports

Inclusiveness:

The Madeline Island Organizing Committee

 

2010 - "Generosity, Civic Engagement & Inclusiveness"

Generosity:

Kids Closet of Duluth - Program Support

Civic Engagement:

Neighborhood Housing Services - Civic Community Safety Initiative

Inclusiveness:

Community Action Duluth - Antiracism Study--Dialogue Circles (ASDC) III 

  2009 - "Celebrating Our Creative Economy"

Art Works!

Northspan Group - Northland Connection

Copeland Community Center - Hmong New Year's Celebration

Minnesota Land Trust - North Shore Protection Initiative

Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs  

  2008 - "25th Anniversary"

Minnesota Ballet - Public Arts Festival

Damiano Center - Volunteer Program

Lake Superior Zoological Society - Transitional Programming

2007 - "Celebrating Creativity Within"

Gold:

Lake Superior Writers - Great Northern Festival of Words

Silver:
Lake Superior Youth Chorus - Opera Collaboration

Bronze:
ISD #709 - Duluth Public Schools - Scott D. Anderson Leadership Forum

2006 - "Empowering Change"

Gold:
Udac - Health, Wellness & Fitness

Silver:
KOOTASCA Community Action, Inc. - Circles of Support

Bronze:

Damiano of Duluth, Inc. - Clothes That Work

2005 - "Above & Beyond"
Gold:
AccountAbility Minnesota - Duluth Volunteer Tax Assistance Program

Silver:
Northern Communities Land Trust - Building Materials Recovery Project

Bronze(in alphabetical order):
Arrowhead Regional Corrections - Duluth Drug Court
Center Against Sexual & Domestic Assault (CASDA) - Court Watch
Duluth-Superior Symphony Association - Seven Deadly Sins Concert Series
Grant Community School Collaborative - Program Salary Support 

2004 - "Volunteerism"
Men As Peacemakers
Kids Closet

2003 - “Excellence in These Times”
ISD#704 - Proctor Public Schools - Proctor Area Community Center
Harbor House Crisis Shelter

2002 - “Expanding the Circle”
North Shore Community School
R.E.A.C.H.

2001 - “Strengthening Community Involvement”
Superior, A Community for Youth
The Darland Connection

2000 - "...For the Public Good"
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School

1999 - Building Bridges
Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation/WDSE-TV
YWCA of Duluth

1998 - Promoting Responsibility
Life House, Inc. - Teen Parent Center
Kids Voting Minnesota - Duluth
Volunteer Attorney Program

1997 - Volunteer Involvement
Duluth Art Institute
Lutheran Social Service - Young Parent Program

1996 - Youth Involvement
Woodland Hills - Neighborhood Youth Services
Twin Ports D.A.R.E.
YMCA of Duluth - Youth Mentoring Program

1995 - Community Building
Lucius Woods Performing Arts Center