San Francisco Beautiful
2010 Beautification Awards
Award Nomination Form

San Francisco Beautiful's Annual Beautification Awards highlight and celebrate exceptional projects, efforts and outcomes by individuals, organizations, businesses and coalitions which create, protect, enhance or affirm the livability and beauty of San Francisco. This year's theme, "Celebrating Our Urban Villages" will focus on efforts which reflect a commitment to the value of our distinct neighborhoods and districts which through their number, variety, human scale, sense of community, ability to inspire civic and social engagement, and sense of place underlie the positive character of our city, and enhance the quality of experience for residents and visitors. While the existence of these distinct areas has been consistently identified as one of the defining characteristics of San Francisco and an aspect which makes it a place people want to be, they remain under threat from insensitive development, insufficiently wise public policies or conflicting desires for centralization, economies of scale and trends toward uniformity.

Help us illuminate efforts which have enhanced the quality of your experience in important ways, and efforts which reflect a commitment to a future about which we can be genuinely enthusiastic and in which we can take pride creating for those who come after us.

Examples of Past SFB Beautification Award Winners

•         Lake Merced restoration

•         Octavia Boulevard creation

•         Conservatory of Flowers restoration

•         Visitacion Valley Greenway creation

•         Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Assn & Friends of Duboce Park work on park enhancements

•         Quesada Gardens Initiative

•         Adah Bakalinsky, author, Stairway Walks in San Francisco

•         Amy Meyer & D. Edgar Wayburn, People for a Golden Gate National Recreation Area

•         Immigrant Point Lookout and Batteries to Bluffs Trail Network creation

•         Mt Sutro Native habitat restoration

•         24th Street Mini-Park rehabilitation

•         16th Avenue Tiled Steps design

•         Yerba Buena Gardens creation

•         Mission Creek habitat restoration

•            Parque Ninos Unidos enhancements

•         16th Street BART Plaza redesign

•         Daniel E. Koshland Park and Community Garden rehabilitation

•         Glen Canyon Park habitat restoration

•         Randall Museum enhancements

•         Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center restoration

•         Monroe Elementary School mosaic murals creation

•         The passage of Prop J (2008) creating the Historic Preservation Commission

•         ClementinaCaresSouth of Market alleyway improvements

•         Piers 1 1/2, 3 & 5 restoration

•         Shotwell Greenway creation

•         Ocean Avenue beautification

Nominated entries must be located or active in San Francisco and for physical projects be fully visible or physically accessible to the general public. Nominations are due at Noon on Monday, April 12th. Award winners are selected by San Francisco Beautiful’s Award Jury and winners will be notified in early May. Awards will be publicly presented at SFB's Beautification Awards Dinner on October 13th at the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel. For questions or assistance with your application, contact San Francisco Beautiful at awards@sfbeautiful.org.

Nominated project (name/title/event/program)                                      

Location or address of project                                                

Sponsor(s)/owner(s)/organizer(s)/primary volunteer(s) responsible [Contact info for all]

If different, names and contact info for other persons who can provide knowledgeable information about the entry.                                                                           

Telephone/fax/email                                                          

If different from above:

Your name                                                                   

Your address                                                             

Your telephone/fax/email                                                     

Please also provide the following:

•         Description of nominated project. If available, include before and after photos. Submissions can be made in hard copy or electronically.

•   Reasons for nominating including special qualities or benefits to San Francisco residents and visitors.

Send by Noon on April 12th to:

San Francisco Beautiful, 100 Bush ST STE 1580, San Francisco, CA 94104

Fax: 415.421.4037; awards@sfbeautiful.org

For details, call 415.421.2608x12.

SAVE THE DATE: Plan to attend our 2010 Beautification Awards Dinner on October 13th at the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel when we honor award winners.