Walter & Elise Haas Fund executive director Pam David has been named a “Local Hero” by Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative. The bank recognizes Pam for her over 30 years of community activism on behalf of civil rights and social justice.

As part of the Initiative, the bank also is giving $200,000 grants to LYRIC and to the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center.

LYRIC, a San Francisco organization that works with LGBT youth, nominated Pam for her Local Hero award. In 1991, while at the Mayor’s Office of Community Development, Pam was instrumental in helping LYRIC secure a home in the Castro. Continue reading