Awards

Bridge Builders Award

Former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening and Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman for their collaboration to create a resource, the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, that advises and guides governors and other state leaders on addressing issues of growth and development in their states.

Bridge Builders Award

Enterprise Community Partners and its Green Communities partners for collaborating with more than 25 developers, investors, builders and residents to create Green Communities, the first national green building program developed for affordable housing. Enterprise has made a commitment of $555 million to build more than 8,500 homes for low-income people and to bring environmentally sustainable development to the mainstream of the affordable housing industry.

Bridge Builders Award

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez for collaborating across party lines to enact a bipartisan environmental agenda that disregarded the political maneuvering and biased criticism that often stalls progress and that will ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state.

Bridge Builders Award

Greater Homewood Community Corporation and The Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health for developing a unique, ten-year partnership that has resulted in the Baltimore Experience Corps, a model program that brings the time, experience, and wisdom of older adults to bear in improving the academic and behavioral outcome of children in Baltimore City Public Schools.

Bridge Builders Award

The National Children’s Museum and The Peterson Companies, Developer for National Harbor, for working together to create a stronger region through the development of a successful mixed-use destination for residents and tourists in Prince George’s County, and helping link National Harbor, a new riverfront project, to the nation’s capital.