A
Celebration of Vision & Community Spirit
Partners Honorees 2006
March 9, 2006
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Peter Harkness,
Editor, Governing Magazine
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Steve Gunderson,
President & CEO, Council on Foundations
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PARTNERS’
HONORS: |
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Investors in America
Award
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Vickie Tassan, Senior
Vice President, Bank of America Community Development Banking,
who has been a key local asset and figure in banking, economic
development and equal opportunity lending in Washington, DC
for over 20 years.
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Entrepreneurial
American Leadership Award
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John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann,
Co-Directors of the Asset Based Community
Development Institute at Northwestern University,
for their great contributions to the entire field of community
development through their asset-based neighborhood development
and community building research.
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Jan Kreamer,
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.
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Albert Simone,
President of Rochester Institute of
Technology (RIT), for his commitment to RIT, promotion
of equity, and outstanding community involvement in the City
of Rochester.
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City of San José,
for the diversity of programs and facilities that have been
created to assist San José's lower- and moderate-income
families by increasing, preserving, and improving housing that
is affordable and livable, and to the extent possible, ensuring
long-term affordability and contributing to neighborhood revitalization.
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City of El Paso,
for the tremendous public, private, and community partnership
that went into the development and restoration of the Plaza
Theatre Performing Arts Center as an asset for the future of
El Paso.
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Downtown St. Louis,
for their radical transformation from a downtown losing its
spark to one that is thriving in the new millennium.
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| William H. Whyte Award
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Ronald Lee Fleming,
Urban Planner and Designer, Preservation Advocate, Environmental
Educator and Critic, for his visionary discussions of visual
literacy and place making in the American community.
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