New York City, NY

Entrepreneurial American Leadership Award

A leading expert in the fields of cultural organization development and preservation management.

New York City, NY

A non-profit organization that engages neighborhood youth, the arts and cultural heritage in order to improve the entire community.

For her unparalleled passion for urban design and vision that has held developers to strict design standards benefiting all of  New York City.

Bridge Builders Award

Rey Ramsey, Co-Founder and CEO, One Economy Corporation, Ben Hecht, Co-Founder, President and COO, One Economy Corporation and Lewis P. Jones, President, The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation for innovative programs to get computer technology into inner-city homes of those cut off from the economic mainstream.

Bridge Builders Award (Jamaica-Queens, NY)

Jacqueline Arrington, Vice President, Citibank Community Relations and F. Carlisle Towery, President, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation for their decade long commitment to putting culture to work as a community building strategy, especially for the banks efforts in using culture as a primary resource for reinvigorating the neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens and helping to transform it into a dynamic metropolitan area.