Gateway CEO Jon Greenwood Receives April Stobbe Community Service Award
Some awards earn dust on a shelf. Others, like this year's April Stobbe Community Service Award, are earned through decades of tireless, selfless work for others.
At their annual Harvest Moon fundraiser event, Community Market of Pottawatomie County presented Jon Greenwood with this year's April Stobbe Community Service Award. The award, now in its fifth year, honors April Stobbe, one of Community Market's founding board members, and recognizes someone who has gone above and beyond serving Pottawatomie County through innovative, collaborative, and generous work.
Greenwood has spent more than 25 years in prevention and agency leadership, much of it at the helm of Gateway, where his career has centered on serving people facing mental health conditions, substance misuse, and addiction across rural Oklahoma. Under his leadership, Gateway grew into the second largest outpatient provider in the state, serving a four-county area and treating patients from 12 counties total. As demand for services grew and state resources shrank, Greenwood kept leading from the same place: a commitment to his neighbors and a belief that local people solve local problems.
The award was presented to him by Daniel Matthews, executive director of Community Market of Pottawatomie County, Brandon Dyer, executive director of Community Renewal of Pottawatomie County, and John Bobb-Semple, executive director of Pogo — a reflection of the same spirit of partnership Greenwood built his career around.
The remarks shared during the presentation painted a clear picture of why he was chosen.
"Anything you needed from Jon, he always showed up," Dyer said. "He believed in what he did. He believed that the service he did mattered."
Bobb-Semple described Greenwood as someone who "led tirelessly and selflessly."
When it came time to accept the award, Greenwood turned the credit outward.
"We don't do any of this work by ourselves," he said.
That single sentence captures the spirit of his service better than any award description could. For more than two decades, Greenwood built a career on the idea that solving local problems takes local people willing to show up, and Pottawatomie County has been better for it.
