Awards

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.

Bridge Builders Award (Charlotte, NC)

Kenneth D. Lewis, President and CEO, Bank of America, Robert Cannon, Executive Director, Public Library of Charlotte/Mecklenburg County and Bruce LaRowe, Executive Director, Children’s Theater of Charlotte for their visionary leadership and initiative in creating ImaginOn-The Joe and Joan Martin Center a joint venture between a library, children’s theatre, and progressive chairman. Through innovative programs using the written, spoken and electronic word, ImaginOn will be an interactive learning environment for young people and their families in the greater Charlotte area.

architect and sculptor

For his strong leadership during his time as Mayor of Cleveland and Governor of Ohio.

For "Field of Dreams" at Camden Yards and sports stadium across America' cities.

Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for his work in creating alliances between business and environmental communities during his time as President of the World Wildlife Fund (1988)

Founders of New Urbanism, for rethinking the designing and planning of livable communities (1998)

For his national leadership on equal opportunity as former director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1995)

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For fostering public and private partnerships which ensured the creation of the Grace Hill Neighborhood Services organization (1994).

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its distinctive aging initiatives (1994).