Tampa, Florida—The National Civic League announced the winners of the prestigious All-America City award during a celebration at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina. The ten winners in 2009 (in alphabetical order by state) are:
Phoenix, Arizona
Inglewood, California
Richmond, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Wichita, Kansas
Somerville, Massachusetts
Albany, New York
Kinston, North Carolina
Statesville, North Carolina
Caroline County, Virginia
The 60-year old awards program recognizes neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities, counties and metro regions for outstanding civic accomplishments. To win, communities have to demonstrate their ability to address serious challenges with innovative, grassroots strategies that promote civic engagement and cooperation between the public, private and nonprofit sectors.
“These communities give us outstanding examples of leadership and civic innovation,” said National Civic League President Gloria Rubio-Cortés. “The All-America City Award is like an Oscar for civic accomplishment. This year’s event was particularly exciting because it is our 60th anniversary. We really had outstanding finalists to choose from.”
The All-America City Award is an honor achieved by more than 500 communities across the country. Some have won the award multiple times. This year’s winners addressed such pressing and topical issues as housing for seniors, immigration, education and economic development.
“There’s wonderful work going on around the country in communities small and large,” said NCL Board Chair Sandra Freedman. “It’s uplifting to find that out because we always hear the bad, and these are great stories. This is the good.”
This year’s AAC Awards were sponsored in part by Prudential, MWH, Jones Day, Southwest Airlines (The Official Airline of the AAC 2009 Awards), Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina (The Sole Official Headquarters Hotel of the 2009 AAC Awards), Southern California Edison, Mile High United Way and Marriott International.
About 800 civic leaders and community activists from across the country met in Tampa for the three-day awards competition. To win, each community had to make a presentation to a jury of civic experts from the public, private and nonprofit sectors listing three outstanding examples of collaborative, community problem solving.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the National Civic League strengthens democracy by increasing the capacity of our nation’s people to fully participate in and build healthy and prosperous communities across America. Founded in 1894 by Theodore Roosevelt and other government reformers, NCL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that accomplishes its mission through training, technical assistance, publishing, facilitating community-wide strategic planning and awards programs. It publishes research on government structures and reform and community building innovation (The National Civic Review, Civic Index, and 8th Edition of the Model City Charter). In addition to the All-America City Awards, NCL conducts the MetLife Foundation Ambassadors In Education Awards.
For summaries of the winning community projects, e-mail Mike McGrath at mikem@ncl.org. For more information on the All-America City Award winners or the National Civic League, call Mike McGrath at 571 4343 or visit our website (http://www.ncl.org/.)
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