Frances Green to receive Jewish leadership award

Friday, March 23, 2001 | by

San Francisco Jewish community leader Frances Green has been named the winner of this year’s Judith Chapman Memorial Women’s Lea

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.

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.

At the time, only one of the 16 major U.S. federations was headed by a woman.

During Green's term as president, the JCF's annual fund-raising campaign collected close to $10 million, surpassing all previous campaigns.

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.

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.

"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.