Locations

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For their role in strengthening Denver’s public elementary schools and their surrounding neighborhoods by designing new multi-dimensional school playgrounds.

St. Paul, MN

A community-based non-profit organization that helps emerging entrepreneurs develop successful businesses in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis area.

This report documents the Miami-Dade County Aging in Place Workshop and highlights the kinds of problems and possible solutions that are relevant to transportation planning for seniors everywhere. Click here to download the report.

This report documents the Centralina Aging in Place Workshop and features the central role of transportation and housing in the work of land use planners and designers. Click here to download the report.

This report documents the San Diego Aging in Place Workshop that explored the the topic of lifelong learning. Click here to download the report.

This report documents Chicago Aging in Place Workshop which focused on connecting older adults to culture and the arts in Chicago and in other cities across America. Click here to download the report.

For their contributions to Omaha’s music culture and economic development, as seen in their redevelopment project, which has spurred a multimillion-dollar, mixed-use development in a previously depressed north downtown area.

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

This report documents the Aging in Place Workshop in Kansas City which focused on one of the most critical issues facing older adults—finding affordable and suitable housing options. Click here to download the report.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For taking a proactive stance in forming local and regional collaborations to address balanced growth and preservation.

Tucson, Arizona

A cultural organization that fuses arts and heritage to bring community members of all ages together.

Founders Award for Civic Leadership

Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund, for his continued dedication and passion in support of conservation of our country’s natural resources and in promoting access to clean water in the developing world.

Bridge Builders Award

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, for building a greener America by collaborating with numerous national partners on initiatives that make the company a leader in environmentally friendly programs and fuel-efficient vehicles, including a partnership with the National Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

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.

This report documents the Arizona Aging in Place Workshop which focused on how nonprofit organizations and older adults can equally benefit from Americans’ desire to find meaningful work opportunities after their primary career. Click here to download the report.

This first Aging in Place workshop was hosted by Hillsborough County, Florida, a county constantly being challenged to provide important services to the growing older adult population. The Tampa Bay Region is home to some of the most comprehensive Aging in Place strategies in the country—a fitting fact for a large region with one of the nation’s highest percentage of residents over the age of 65. Click here to Download Report