The
MAPS Annual Community Awards Banquet
Previous Award Recipients
Community
Service Awards
Mary & Manuel
Rogers Lifetime Community Service Award
Manuel
N. Coutinho Outstanding Volunteer Award
Person
of the Year Award
Jorge Fidalgo Community Service Awards
2007 Recipients:
Marcony Almeida, Policy Associate for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition, and
Adelina Alves, Supervisor of the Community Health Advocates at Upham's Corner Health Center, Dorchester
2006
Recipients:
Vera
Dias, Owner of Vera's Jewelers in Framingham
Boston Police Sgt. Tony Fonseca, community leaders and volunteers
2005
Recipients:
Joceline
Fidalgo, Teens Against Gun Violence
Josina Rodigues, Vice-Consul of Brazil
2004
Recipient:
Fausto
Rocha, Executive Director, Brazilian Immigrant Center
2003
Recipients:
Valdir
Alves, Cabovideo; Lilia Cavalcanti and Fatinha Kerr, Marlborough
Community Services
2002
Recipients:
Jonathan
Fine, Ana da Hora Workers Center; Adriana Sena, Brazilian Reporter
2001
Recipients:
Marcia
Loureiro, Deputy Consul of Brazil in Boston;
Prof.
José Ornelas, U-Mass./Amherst
2000
Recipients:
Jorge Costa, Brazilian advocate;
Ana
Timas-Teixeira, Kit Clark Senior Services
1999
Recipients:
Frank Carvalho, Director, Coalition for a Better Acre;
Vanessa Torres, Brazilian Vice Consul in Boston and former MAPS
Board member
1998
Recipients:
Adélia Lopes, MAPS volunteer;
Father Roque Pattussi, Father Bernardo Vaschetto
1997
Recipients:
Ursula Araujo, MAPS volunteer;
Luis Pedroso, President, Qualitronics;
Heloisa Galvão, Boston Public Schools and Brazilian Women's Group
1996
Recipients:
Regina Bertholdo, Somerville Hospital interpreter;
John
O'Brien, Attorney;
Paula Tavares, student at Somerville High School.
1995
Recipients:
Dr. Jean Jacques Alves, physician;
Edirson Paiva Jr., editor, Brazilian
Times;
Julia Story, former MAPS Board member
1994
Recipients:
Padre Pio Gottin; John Feitor, CPCU Board of Directors, Vice President,
UNICCO.
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Mary & Manuel Rogers Lifetime Community Service Award
Father José Ferreira, Pastor at St. Anthony's Church, Cambridge
2006
Recipient:
Ana Morais, Ethnic Librarian, Valente Branch, Cambridge Public
Library
2005
Recipient:
John Barros, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
2004
Recipient:
Paulo Godinho, Lowell community leader
2003
Recipient:
Ana Velasco, Brazilian community activist and educator
2002
Recipient:
Lowell Mayor Rita Mercier
2001
Recipient:
José Maria Barros, Dudley Street
Neighborhood Initiative, former MAPS Board member.
2000
Recipient:
Maria Didia Cunha, Middlesex Community College
1999
Recipient:
Georgette E. Gonsalves, Boston Public Schools
1998
Recipient:
Gladys Picanso, former MAPS staff member & President,
Lowell Holy Ghost Society
1997
Recipient:
José Macedo, Attorney
1996
Recipient:
Ligia Do Couto Taylor, MAPS volunteer and former Board member
1995
Recipient:
Manuel Rogers, Jr., Rogers Funeral Home
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Manuel N. Coutinho Outstanding Volunteer Award
2007 Recipients:
José Carlos Barros and José Gomes, Portuguese-language Alcoholics Anonymous Volunteer Group Facilitators, Cambridge
2006
Recipient:
Manoel De Sousa, Community leader, Framingham
2005
Recipient:
Maria e José Pombeiro,
Lowell Volunteers
2004
Recipients:
Andreia Makkas, Brazilian community leader
2003
Recipients:
Ruth Costa, MAPS Youth Program volunteer
2002
Recipients:
Gunga Tavares, Cultural Attaché,
Consulate of Cape Verde in Boston
2001
Recipients:
Sally Correa and Maria Alice Reis, volunteers, Lowell elderly community
2000
Recipient:
Maria Valente, Portugalia Restaurant
1999
Recipient:
Manuel N. Coutinho, MAPS volunteer
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Person of the Year Award
2007 Recipient:
Isaura Mendes, Cape Verdean Community Leader, Dorchester
2006
Recipient:
State Rep. Deborah Blumer, D-Framingham
2005
Recipient:
Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County Sheriff
2004
Recipients:
Glenn Mello, Silva Bros. Investments, Lowell; Luis Pedroso, community
activist, Lowell area business executive; Mark & Elisia
Saab, owners of Advanced Polymers, Inc. of Salem, NH
2003
Recipient:
M. Teresa Cardoso, Somerville School Committee member
2002
Recipient:
Dr. José Figueiredo, former
principal of the Harrington Middle School in Cambridge
2001
Recipient:
Dr. Howard Koh, Mass. Commissioner of Public Health
2000
Recipient:
Board and Employees of the Cambridge Portuguese Credit Union
1999
Recipient:
Joseph Teixeira, JMT Consulting
1998
Recipient:
State Rep. António F.D. Cabral
1997
Recipient:
Henrique de Campos Meirelles, President, BankBoston
1996
Recipient:
Gil Santos, WBZ sportscaster
1995
Recipient:
State Representative and Cambridge City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey,
Jr.
1994
Recipient:
Mayor Michael E. Capuano, Somerville
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