Partners’ Seventh Annual Bridge Builders Award Program

CULTURE AS A BRIDGE
September 18, 2003
Hotel Monaco, Washington, DC

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Partners for Livable Communities honored Bridge Builders at the Seventh Annual Bridge Builders Award Ceremony and Dinner with a special theme of "culture as a bridge" and how cultural strategies can bring us together.

PARTNERS’ HOST:
Glenda Hood, Secretary of State, Florida.
William K. Reilly, President and CEO of AQUA International and former administrator Environmental Protection Agency

EMCEE: Kathy Dwyer Southern, Director, Capital Children’s Museum

KEYNOTE: Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

THIS YEAR’S BRIDGE BUILDERS ARE:

Charlotte, North Carolina
Kenneth D. Lewis, President and CEO, Bank of America
Robert Cannon, Executive Director, Public Library of Charlotte/Mecklenburg County
Bruce LaRowe, Executive Director, Children’s Theater of Charlotte
Honored 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.

St. Louis, MO
Richard D. Baron, Co-Founder and CEO, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.
Stephanie Riven, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts
Honored 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.

Jamaica Queens, New York
Jacqueline Arrington, Vice President, Citibank Community Relations
F. Carlisle Towery, President, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
Honored 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.

Memphis, Tennessee
Andrew F. Cates, President, Cates Company, Project Developer & Chairman, Soulsville
Deanie Parker, President and Executive Director, Soulsville
Honored 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.

Washington, D.C. Area
Nick Francis, President, Gateway Community Development Corporation
The Honorable Jack B. Johnson, County Executive, Prince George’s County, Maryland
Honored 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. Partner to be nominated.

This year the Bridge Builders Award honored partnerships that have not only built bridges of understanding and cooperation in their communities but have done so by using cultural resources for the betterment of their communities.

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