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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/15298/full/15298/frances-green-to-receive-jewish-leadership-award/ <br /><br /> <b>Frances Green to receive Jewish leadership award</b> <br /> Friday, March 23, 2001 | by <p>San Francisco Jewish community leader Frances Green has been named the winner of this year’s Judith Chapman Memorial Women’s Lea </p> <br /><br /><p>The award, in honor of Chapman, a longtime Jewish community activist who died in 1997, has been presented annually since 1999 to a Jewish woman chosen for leadership and furtherance of tzedakah.<br /><br /> In 1975, Green became the first woman president in the JCF's then-65-year history, paving the way for other women to move up the ranks in Jewish communal work.<br /><br /> At the time, only one of the 16 major U.S. federations was headed by a woman.<br /><br /> During Green's term as president, the JCF's annual fund-raising campaign collected close to $10 million, surpassing all previous campaigns.<br /><br /> Before and after her presidency, Green held a number of volunteer positions in the Jewish and general communities. Her first volunteer position was at Mountain Zion Hospital in San Francisco in 1949.<br /><br /> In addition, she has served as the first woman to chair the JCF's annual campaign. She is president-elect of the Judah L. Magnes Museum; past president of the Jewish Home and the Hebrew Free Loan Association and the JCF's Women's Division; director of the National Women's Board of United Jewish Appeal; board member of the S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children's Services and Jewish Community Relations Council; past chair of the Golden Gate Chapter of the American Red Cross and member of the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Commission.<br /><br /> "The Power of One" fund-raising dinner begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 at the Westin St. Francis, 333 Powell St., S.F. Cost is $70, plus a $365 contribution to the JCF's annual campaign. Information: (415) 777-0411.</p> <p> </p>

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