In 2009, Steve was presented the "Bob Hope Award for Excellence in Entertainment" by the Medal of Honor Society.

In January 2007 the United Service Organizations (USO) awarded him its Spirit of Hope Award.

In 2009, Kaufman was nominated for an Emmy for Producing the Ribbon of Hope Awards.

The Hope Award is presented for Pre-competitive Division.

On April 24, 2009, he received the Spirit of Hope Award as part of the Latin Billboard Music Awards ceremony.

Symons received Cancer Research UK's "National Communicator" Flame of Hope Award in 2007.

He was awarded the "Inspiration for Hope Award" by the American Friends Service Committee in 2010 for his social justice activism in the Middle East.

The Spirit of Hope Award is presented for outstanding service to the United States of America.

He was also the recent recipient (2013) of the Carousel of Hope Award, provided by Barbara Davis and the Children's Diabetes Foundation.

Clayola Brown, the international vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, will receive the center's Torch of Hope Award.