Past Founder’s Award Winners

2020 – The Cities Project

2019 – Robert W. Santy, President & CEO of Connecticut Economic Resource Center (CERC)

2018 – R. David Genovese, CEO of Baywater Properties

2017 – John Simone, Founding CEO, CMSC

2016 – Upper Albany Main Street & University of Hartford

2015 – Hiram Peck, AICP, Director of Community Planning & Development, Town of Simsbury
Delpha M. Very, Economic & Community Development Director, Town of Putnam

2014 – William Warner, Former Middletown Planning Director

2013 – Toni A. Gold, Urban Planner & Hartford Advocate

2012 – The Northwestern Connecticut Regional Planning Collaborative

2011 – Connecticut Public Radio / WNPR for Where We Live

2010 – The Partnership for Strong Communities, for its HOMEConnecticut Campaign

2009 – Keith J. Kumnick, SIOR

2008 – Linda A. Osten, former Principal Planner for the Capitol Region Council of Governments, awarded posthumously

2007 – Martha A. Hunt, former President & CEO of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center

2006 – The Hartford Courant

2005 – Webster Bank

2003 – John W. (Jack) Shannahan, State Historic Preservation Officer

2002 – State of Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development

2001 – The Connecticut Light & Power Company