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All-America City Award to Spotlight Healthy Communities
The National Civic League. (NCL) announced the 2014 All-America City Award will spotlight healthy
communities. The year-round program will culminate in a multi-day peer learning forum and competition for civic activists and community problem-solvers
to be held June, 2014 in Denver, Colorado.
"We're very excited about the spotlight on healthy communities," said NCL President Gloria Rubio-Cortes. "It will highlight the important issues of our
time and how people come together to address health issues."
Rubio-Cortes invited applications from communities
that are playing a leadership role in making their communities healthier by addressing obesity, health equity, disease prevention and health promotion,
health access, healthy eating, regional transportation and other challenges.
To obtain a 2014 All-America City Award application, send an email to AAC@ncl.org or call 303-571-4343. Applicants may be
neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, or regions. Twenty applicants will be named finalists and invited to present their challenges and best practices to
a national jury in June 2014 in Denver. Each applicant is asked to describe three community projects to address local challenges with one focusing on healthy
efforts.
"For more than 20 years NCL has been a leader in helping communities become healthier," said Rubio-Cortes, who noted that the 25th anniversary of the
"healthy communities" movement would be celebrated in an upcoming special edition of the National Civic Review,
NCL's quarterly journal.
Immediately recognizable for the stars and bars shield logo found on water towers and city limits signs across the country, the All-America City Award
is given to ten winners each year for community-based problem solving, grassroots civic engagement and joint efforts on the part of the public, private
and nonprofit sectors.
The honor has been achieved by more than 650 communities across the country. Some have won the award multiple times. Learn more about the award program
and follow events leading up to the June 2014 Denver event on our All-America City blog and
the All-America City Awards Facebook page.
NCL is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that strengthens democracy by increasing the capacity of our nation's people to fully participate in and build
healthy and prosperous communities across America. Find out more about the National Civic League at www.ncl.org.
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League of Arizona Cities and Towns
1820 W. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Phone: 602-258-5786
Fax: 602-253-3874
http://www.azleague.org
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