This year's Gold Sponsors were:
Charles Ellis & Linda Lorimer
Jerome Meyer & Roslyn Milstein Meyer
The United Illuminating Company
This year's Silver Sponsors were:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Archdiocese of Hartford, Archbishop's Annual Appeal
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Gateway Community College Foundation, Inc.
New Haven Register
William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
WTNH News Channel 8
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Yale University
This year’s award was presented to Dr. Dorsey L. Kendrick, President, Gateway Community College, and Cynthia Farrar, Institution For Social And Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale University, for their leadership roles in promoting civic engagement through dialogue and deliberation in the New Haven area, most recently last October by organizing and hosting the By the People deliberative forum on immigration at Gateway Community College.
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| Cynthia Farrar |
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| Dr. Dorsey L. Kendrick |
Dr. Kendrick became president of Gateway in August 1999. Ms. Farrar is a research scholar and director of the program on deliberative democracy and local governance at Yale University's ISPS, and a lecturer in political science and in ethics, politics and economics.
The Reverend Howard Nash Community Leadership Award was established in 2002 to honor community leadership in the area of dialogue and to support The Dialogue Project. This award is named in memory of the late Reverend Howard Nash of Saint Bernadette’s Roman Catholic Church of New Haven. Father Nash was one of the founders of the DP and a former President of ICM. In addition to his contributions to the DP, Father Nash was known throughout this community for his tireless work for justice and reconciliation.
The Dialogue Project (DP), is a collaborative effort between Community Mediation, Inc. (CM) and Interfaith Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (ICM). In 1997, CM and ICM established the DP in response to severe racial tensions in the wider New Haven community.
