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Bridge Builders Award

Carl W. "Bill" Struever, President & CEO, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse and Bank of America for their joint efforts in "Building Better Communities" throughout Baltimore and the East Coast through Smart Growth projects and neighborhood transformations.

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Bridging The Digital Divide

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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.

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Building Bridges Through the Diversity of Experience

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Bridge Builders Award

Allan Kullen, President, People of America Foundation, & Founder, Americans All, Bob Knight, Former Mayor, Wichita, Kansas and the Dedicated Employees of Todd Allan Printing for working toward racial reconciliation around the nation by designing, advocating and supporting programs that promote understanding of the ties that connect us, regardless of diverse backgrounds.

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Glenda Hood

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Founders Award for Civic Leadership

Former Secretary of State for the State of Florida, for enhancing the quality of life and culture across the state

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Books and the Stage Build a Rainbow of Opportunities

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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.

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Arts Education and Community Building

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Bridge Builders Award (St. Louis, MO)

Richard D. Baron, Co-Founder and CEO, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc. and Stephanie Riven, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts for their efforts towards creating The Center for Contemporary Arts, which has become an exemplary site for affordable arts and education programs for youth and family in the St. Louis community. Special recognition will be extended to Mr. Baron for his 30-year commitment towards using culture and heritage as a bridge for community improvement in residential and commercial development of mixed income neighborhoods.

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Culture Builds Jamaica: The Bridge to Local Economic Development

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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.

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A Little Soul Goes a Long Way

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Bridge Builders Award (Memphis, TN)

Andrew F. Cates, President, Cates Company, Project Developer & Chairman, Soulsville and Deanie Parker, President and Executive Director, Soulsville for their commitment to reinvigorating the neighborhood of Soulsville, Memphis through the Soulsville non-profit organization that is in charge of building the Stax Museum of American Soul Music as well as the Stax Music Academy for inner city youth.

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Setting the Standard

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Bridge Builders Award (Prince George's County, MD)

Nick Francis, President, Gateway Community Development Corporation and The Honorable Jack B. Johnson,  County Executive, Prince George’s County, Maryland for their development and creation of the Prince George’s Gateway Arts District, the largest, single public/private arts and community revitalization effort in the nation. Gateway is an innovator on how to use arts-based development projects as a catalyst for commercial revitalization by exploring ways to support the artists living and working in its community.

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Parris Glendening

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Investors in America Award

Governor of Maryland, for his work with smart growth and sustainable development in the State of Maryland and in the United States

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Jaime Lerner

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Investors in America Award

Who helped make the city of Curitiba, Brazil an international model of sustainability during his mayorship

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The Mid-Sized City: Exploring its Unique Place in Urban Policy

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An exploration of whether midsize cities should have a league of their own, i.e. are they unique and special and should they have a stronger voice on public plicies in the U.S. and on global business development abroad? The results of a conference of invited researchers and public policy leaders led by Tom Argus of Rochester and Laura Durham of Partners for Livable Communities.

Author: William Fulton, Solimar Research, 16 pages, November 2002. ($5) Or Download the Report for Free here


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Arlington County Virginia: Aging Initiatives

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Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For its distinctive aging initiatives (1994).

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City of St. Louis, Missouri: Public/Private Partnerships

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Entrepreneurial American Community Award

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

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Ernest W. Hahn

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Investors in America Award

San Diego developer and philanthropist, for the mixed-use Horton Plaza development in downtown San Diego, a new model for in-town shopping

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