The Los Altos Community Foundation (LACF) is presenting its second annual John W. Gardner Community Building Awards for volunteers in Los Altos-Los Altos Hills. The awards dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m., Tuesday, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto.

This award honors volunteers and their service organizations to recognize their work in local community building. Each organization has chosen its own volunteer to honor. The award is named for the late John Gardner, an honorary founder of LACF. An engineer of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, Gardner’s multifaceted contributions and his writings on community building are the principles that guide the Community Foundation.

Recipients of the 2005 awards and their organizations are Vicki Reeder, Bus Barn Stage Company; George Stanley, El Camino Hospital Foundation; Mona Armistead, El Camino YMCA; Elizabeth Duveneck Dana, Friends of Hidden Villa; Elayne Dauber, Los Altos Library Volunteers; Dan Alexander, Friends of Westwind Barn; Susi Kohan, Foothill Community College; George Limbach, Los Altos Community Foundation; Dorothy Dickson, Los Altos Sister Cities Inc.; Jane Turnbull, LA-MV League of Women Voters; and Candy Pelissero, Music for Minors.

Heritage Bank of Commerce and Northern Trust Bank are major sponsors for the event.

For information on attending the dinner, open to the public, call Los Altos Community Foundation events Chairwoman Ginny Lear, 941-4164.