Ellen Magnin Newman Award
2025 Winner: SCRAP
About the Award
Named after San Francisco Symphony Board member and founder of the All San Francisco concert Ellen Magnin Newman, this award recognizes one outstanding community-based organization each year. Organizations are nominated by the All San Francisco Committee for their service to Bay Area families and individuals, contributions that strengthen the region's cultural fabric, and efforts to create a more just and equitable society for everyone who lives here.
Recipients of the Ellen Magnin Newman Award are identified by committee vote and approved by honorary chair Ellen Magnin Newman, and celebrated at the All San Francisco Concert. The 2025 Ellen Magnin Newman Award winner is SCRAP.
About SCRAP
SCRAP is an arts education nonprofit and creative reuse center based in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood that transforms surplus materials into tools for learning, self-expression, and environmental action. Founded in 1976 by arts community leader Anne Marie Theilen and artist Ruth Asawa, SCRAP was born out of a need to supply teaching artists with affordable classroom materials—and has since become a resource for creativity in San Francisco. SCRAP continues to carry forward Ruth Asawa’s vision: a city where art is accessible, waste becomes opportunity, and creativity is a force for equity and connection.
The SCRAP Depot welcomes over 37,000 visitors, while diverting 250 tons of reusable materials from landfills each year. SCRAP offers hands-on community workshops, free educator programs, and weekly after-school art and fashion design classes that reach over 1,000 public school students in Southeast San Francisco.
Previous Winners
2024: Brava! for Women in the Arts
2022: Bayview Opera House
2021: Loco Bloco
2020: Hip Hop For Change
2019: Sunset Youth Services
2018: Imagine Bus Project
2017: Precita Eyes Muralists
2016: Bay Area Girls Rock Camp
2015: BAYCAT
2014: First Exposures
2013: Creativity Explored
2012: Woman, Inc.
2011: Zaccho Dance Theatre Youth Performing Arts Program
2010: Under One Roof
2008: Larkin Street Youth Services
2007: Bayview-Hunters Point Foundation
