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2018 All-America City Award Application
Announcing the 2018 All-America City Award Application
Theme: Promoting Equity Through Inclusive Civic Engagement
In 2018 the spotlight for the All-America City Awards will be on inclusive civic engagement practices that promote equity and bring all voices
to the table to address important issues. With this spotlight, the National Civic League hopes to learn more about the inclusive decision-making
processes that communities use to solve complex problems and move toward more equitable communities.
The National Civic League invites you to apply for the All-America City Award - the nation's most prestigious community award, now in its 69th
year. The AAC Award offers the opportunity for both recognition and reflection. Applications require communities to come together to assess their
strengths and challenges. The process of applying for the award provides an opportunity to mobilize local groups to work together and display on
a national stage the people and projects that make your community a great place to live, work and play.
NCL recognizes that no perfect communities exist. The All-America City Award does not honor perfection. It does honor a community's courage to
recognize its challenges along with commitment to face those challenges with the same spirit exhibited in the highlighted projects.
2018 is the 50th anniversary of the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (more commonly known as the Kerner Commission). The
report concluded with words that fit easily within our own times, "it is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens - urban
and rural, white, black, Spanish surname, American Indians, and every minority group."
Areas of Interest
With this framing in mind, NCL is particularly interested in learning about your projects that use civic engagement to:
- promote positive community-police relations,
- promote racial healing and dialogues on race,
- expand government and institutional representation and access,
- further educational equity in the community,
- create affordable and safe housing,
- reduce poverty,
- increase job readiness and employment,
- focus on restorative justice,
- seek equitable transportation access,
- promote or ensure access to healthy food and/or to safe and healthy natural environments.
We do not require the application to address any of the above issues specifically. We know that local communities face a wide array of challenges and
that demonstrating a commitment to inclusion and engagement will look different in different places.
Getting Started
We encourage you to download the application and use
the resources page to help your community
apply for the All-America City Award.
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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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