Youth

Chicago, IL

A non-profit art and design center that encourages creativity as a means of economic empowerment for youth and adults.

Pittsburgh, PA

A multi-discipline and minority directed center for arts and learning that employs the visual and performing arts to foster a sense of accomplishment and hope in the urban community.

Holyoke, MA

A grass-roots organization that promotes economic, social, and community development through food and agriculture projects.

Chicago, IL

A bilingual, youth operated community radio station that connects the Latino community and empowers underserved kids.

Colquitt, GA

A volunteer-based theater organization that engages Colquitt County in an effort to share and preserve the cultural heritage of the community.

St. Petersburg, FL

A positive youth activity program which offers development opportunities for teens, grades 6-12, through entertainment and special events.

San Francisco, CA

A program designed to engage youth in positive social dialogue through publication, public performance, educational workshops and mentoring initiatives.

St. Paul, MN

A nonprofit theatre that has enhanced the community of downtown St. Paul through cultural and educational engagement for over forty years.

Queens, NY

A program that uses the rich cultural heritage of the community to engage and educate neighborhood youth

Bridge Builders Award

An organization that uses dance to engage at-risk youth and teach valuable principles like work ethic, tenacity, responsibility and creative expression.

New York City, NY

A non-profit organization that engages neighborhood youth, the arts and cultural heritage in order to improve the entire community.

San Francisco, CA

A professional theater that actively seeks to educate youth from communities that have been historically under-represented in the theater industry.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For their success in supporting local artists, youth education mentoring and neighborhood transformation through their groundbreaking mural program.

Entrepreneurial American Community Award

For their role in strengthening Denver’s public elementary schools and their surrounding neighborhoods by designing new multi-dimensional school playgrounds.

Tucson, Arizona

A cultural organization that fuses arts and heritage to bring community members of all ages together.

Bridge Builders Award

The National Children’s Museum and The Peterson Companies, Developer for National Harbor, for working together to create a stronger region through the development of a successful mixed-use destination for residents and tourists in Prince George’s County, and helping link National Harbor, a new riverfront project, to the nation’s capital.

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.

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.

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.

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.