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Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its strategic planning and budgeting process that links funds in the budget directly to eight major goals to create more effective budgets.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its 25 years of collaboration with Partners for Livable San Diego on quality of life improvements and community building practices.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For the City of Atlanta's collaborative efforts and creativity in developing the Beltline Project.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its innovative use of public/private partnerships in its economic revitalization plan centered on high-end residential development.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its spirit and risk-taking in the implementation of the Kalamazoo Promise, a tuition assistance program for the Kalamazoo residents.

Founders Award for Civic Leadership

Senior Advisor at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, for furthering cultural heritage development and historic preservation for over 40 years.

How can America’s cities and counties prepare to meet the needs of an aging baby boomer population? A Blueprint for Action: Developing a Livable Community for All Ages. Click here to download the report.

Portland, OR

A community-based nonprofit organization that works to empower refugee and immigrant communities by helping them integrate into American society.

Only 46 percent of American communities have begun planning to address the needs of the exploding population of aging Baby Boomers. The Baby Boom generation - born between 1948 and 1964—is rapidly approaching retirement age. When this trend hits its peak in 2030, the number of people over age 65 in the United States will soar to 71.5 million—twice their number in the year 2000—or one in every five Americans.

What ARE communities doing to prepare for this?

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For the community partnership that went into the creation of the Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Center.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For having one of the most remarkable city center transformations in the nation.

Chicago, IL

A lively art studio transformed from a previously vacant, three-acre lot into a wonderful cultural resource and an educational tool for youth around Chicago.

Asheville, NC

Organizations team up to provide unique, affordable housing and revitalize a struggling community.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its successful affordable housing programs.

San José, CA

South Bay California’s largest provider of housing and other services for the homeless.

President of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), for his commitment to RIT, promotion of equity, outstanding community involvement in the City of Rochester.

Former President of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, for her pioneering efforts to redefine the leadership role that community foundations have in creating regional cooperation across the United States..

Bridge Builders Award

Bill White, Mayor, City of Houston, Texas and Robert Eckels, County Judge, Harris County, Texas, for their collaboration in coming to the aid of the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

This report is  a framework for a general understanding of Asian American concerns and opportunities to include them in broader civic dialogue. It is designed for local leaders and civic groups on how they can build their infrastructure and leadership around this issue. Click here to download report.

Bridge Builders Award

Raymond R. Christman, President, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and M. Craig Pascal, Vice President, Community Development Specialist, Washington, DC branch of BB&T of NC, for their understanding of the value of culture-based community development and their dedication towards creating opportunities for them to exist and thrive in the Washington, DC region through the successful EDGE Program which has benefited such organizations as The Dance Institute of Washington and Joe’s Community Arts Organization in Mt Rainier, Maryland.