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