Recognition and Awards
The great community-building that thousands of local Front Porch Forum subscribers are undertaking draws praise. Recent recognition and awards include:
- Invited to address Growing Up Digital: Kids, Commercialism & New Media Culture, Sept. 2008
- Featured in opening meeting of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, June 2008.
- Seminar instructor for American Press Institute’s Leading the Weekly and Community Newsroom: Connecting Neighborhoods Online, June 2008.
- Case study for Fulfilling Vermont’s e-State Potential: Building Community in a “Connected Age,” May 2008.
- Placed sixth out of nearly 5,000 U.S. entrants for the Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own Awards, May 2008.
- Featured at Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility conference, May 2008.
- Featured in e-Democracy’s “Connecting Neighbors, Strengthening Neighborhoods Online” Event, May 2008
- Michael Wood-Lewis won the national Innovator in Place Award from the Orton Family Foundation and PlaceMatters, October 2007.
- Featured speaker at the national CommunityMatters07 conference, October 2007.
- Our work was honored with the annual Community Appreciation Award from the National Night Out event in South Burlington, VT, August 2007.
- Featured Website in the Orton Scenarios E-Journal, Summer 2007 Issue.
- We spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, sharing the agenda with top dot.com entrepreneurs (e.g., CEO of Google and founder of craigslist) and national political leaders and commentators, May 2007.
- We received the City of Burlington’s Neighborhood Leadership Award, March 2007.
- We received Preservation Burlington’s Ray O’Connor Community Improvement Award, March 2007.
- We were featured as one of 20 innovative local uses of the internet at a Harvard conference, January 2007.
- Our flagship, the Five Sisters, was named a “top ten” neighborhood in the United States in 2006.
- National and local media coverage continues.
- Subscribers’ praise rolls in.
- Lots and lots of success stories from the neighborhood forums.
