Bridge Builders Award

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

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

Kathleen Guinan, Chief Executive Officer, Crossway Community, Inc. and Douglas Duncan, County Executive, Montgomery County, Maryland, for creating an education and housing facility that low-income, at-risk families can use as a resource for taking control of their lives.

Bridge Builders Award

Ken Woodley of The Farmville Herald and the Commonwealth of Virginia for creating educational opportunity in the form of scholarships to individuals who were denied public education fifty years ago.

Bridge Builders Award

Bob Santos, Executive Director, Inter*Im, Roberto Maestas, Executive Director, El Centro de la Raza, Larry Gossett, Councilmember, King County, Washington, and Dorry Elias-Garcia, Executive Director, Minority Executive Directors, Coalition of King County for building and fostering a coalition of minority leaders who work together to best advocate for King County, WA’s diverse population.