Past EXCEL Award Recipients

2011 EXCEL Award Winners

1. Wendy Gradison, President and Chief Executive Officer, PRS, Inc.
2. George Jones, Executive Director, Bread for the City
3. Maya Enista Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Mobilize.org

2011 Honorable Mentions 

1. John Dillow, Executive Director, Living Classrooms for the National Capital Region
2. Richard Tagle, Chief Executive Officer, Higher Achievement

2010 EXCEL Award Winners and Honorable Mention

2010 EXCEL Award Winners

1. Scott Beale, Founder & Chief Financial Officer, Atlas Service Corporation
2. Michael Curtin, Chief Executive Officer, DC Central Kitchen
3. Steven Park, Executive Director, Little Lights Urban Ministries 

2010 Honorable Mentions 

1. Andrea Powell, Founder & Executive Director, FAIR Fund
2. Kristine Thompson, Executive Director, Calvary Women’s Services

2009 EXCEL Award Winners 

• Manny Hidalgo, Executive Director, Latino Economic Development Corporation
• Pamela L. Michell, Executive Director, New Hope Housing, Inc.
• Eleni A. Rossides, Executive Director, Washington Tennis & Education Foundation

 2009 Honorable Mentions 

• Dallice Joyner, Executive Director, Northern Virginia Area Health Education Center
• Aleta Margolis, Executive Director, Center for Inspired Teaching

2008 EXCEL Award Winners

2008 Honorable Mentions

• Brenda Rhodes Miller, Executive Director of DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
• Deborah Simpson Taylor, President and CEO of Vanguard Services Unlimited

 2007 EXCEL Award Winners

• Rino Aldrighetti of The Pulmonary Hypertension Association
• Lynn Brantley of The Capital Area Food Bank 
• Mary Funke of N Street Village

 2007 Honorable Mentions

• Betty Jo Gaines of Bright Beginnings
• Chris Hart-Wright of Strive DC 

 2006 EXCEL Award Winners 

• Jonathan Smith, Executive Director of Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
• Rhonda Buckley, Founder and Executive Director of Patricia M. Sitar Center of the Arts
• Adam Tenner, Executive Director of Metro TeenAIDS