AFP Greater Toronto Chapter Philanthropy Awards Luncheon

1999 Award Recipients

Outstanding Volunteer of the Year - 1999

Dr. Rose Wolfe

Dr. Rose Wolfe has dedicated her life to the rights of minorities and bringing about social justice through voluntarism.

A U of T social work graduate, Dr. Wolfe has been active in more than 20 social, cultural and educational organizations. She was President of the Jewish Family & Child Services, President of the women's division of the United Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, and was the first and only woman president of the Toronto Jewish Congress (now known as the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto.)

Fro 1983 to 1991, while acting as an officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress (Ontario), Dr. Wolfe served as chair of the Joint Community Relations committee, a group devoted to improving relations with other radical and ethnic groups, the media and government. She is also a former member of the board of the Banting Research Institute, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Pearson College of the Pacific.

Among her affiliations, Dr. Wolfe is a director of Mount Sinai Hospital, where in 1991 the family and friends of Ray Wolf provided the funding for the Ray D. Wolfe Emergency Unit.

Long a key fundraiser and supporter of the University of Toronto, Dr. Wolfe played a vital leadership role in raising funds for the U of T's Jewish Studies Program and helping the University endow four chairs and one professorship in the area of Jewish and Israeli studies. As Chancellor from 1991 to 1997, and now as Chancellor Emerita, she has served the university as an ambassador at home and abroad. Currently a member of the U of T's Campaign Executive Committee, Dr. Wolfe is helping lead the campaign to raise a minimum of $575 million in private support.

Dr Wolfe received the Order of Ontario in 1992, and in 1998, she was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the Universitu of Toronto for her outstanding contribution to Canadian philanthropy and volunteerism. 1n 1985, Dr. Wolfe received the Human Relations Award from the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.