2009 Regional Stewardship Awards

Your work across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to tackle the challenges facing society – from quality of our lives, to the quality of our roads – requires a regional approach, yet there is often little recognition of the work it takes to achieve real results. The ARS Regional Stewardship Awards are presented to regions that demonstrate progress in at least one of the four Principles of Regional Stewardship:

• Innovative Economy
• Livable Community
• Social Inclusion
• Collaborative Governance

Congratulations to the 2009 ARS Award Winners and Finalists!

Citistates Group Founders Win Inaugural John Parr Individual Leadership Award
(from left, Curtis Johnson, ARS Chair Dick Fleming, Neal Peirce, Farley Peters)

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Wins Organizational Champion Award for Agenda 360
(Agenda 360 Executive Director Myrita Craig accepts award from ARS Immediate Past Chair Mike Langley)

Organizational Champion Award Finalists
(Todd Shimkus from the Adirondack Regional Chamber, Shelley Lauten from myregion.org, Myrita Craig from Cincinnati’s Agenda 360, Kristi Smith Wyatt from the Greater Kansas City Chamber, and Mike Metzler from the Santa Ana Business Alliance)

More Information on 2009's Organizational Champion Award Finalists:

• Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce
  for the Live United this Winter program
  Click here for the finalist application
• Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
  for the Agenda 360 regional action plan
  Click here for the finalist application
• Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
  for the Climate Protection Partnership
  Click here for the finalist application
• Greater Santa Ana Business Alliance
  for High School Inc.
  Click here for the finalist application
• MyRegion.org – regional leadership organization for Central Florida
  Click here for the finalist application

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2008 Award Winners & Finalists

Organizational Champion Winners:

Organizational Champion Finalists:

• Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber/Corridor Transportation Corporation
• Greater Washington Board of Trade
• Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development Corporation
• Regional Transportation Alliance

Individual Leadership Awards

The inaugural 2008 awards go to:

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2006 Award Winners

• San Fernando Valley (CA): A five-city region, including part of city of LA, helped accelerate dedicated bus-way for region, customize job training, and gain approval for new statistical region to gather regional data. The working on education summit and welfare-to-work program.
• Puget Sound region (WA): In a four-county region, a group of 160 business, labor, government, education and non-profit leaders, is working on 18 initiatives including workforce, transportation, strong civic/nonprofit community, and preserve the environment.
• Pittsburgh (PA): In a 10-county region in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, organized new air service when U.S. Air left, retained U.S. Air Force reserve operation, helped secure $250 million for water quality and sewer improvements from the Federal government.

2005 Award Winners

The three award winners were the Greater San Diego’s Partnership for the New Economy, the Northeast Wisconsin Coalition on the Regional Economy (NEW CORE) and Northern Kentucky’s Vision 2015

For More Information

Please contact Ian Scott at (800) 394-2223 x 3530.

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