2010 Trailblazer Award

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2010 Trailblazer Award

Beginning in 2010, all award-winning projects will be judged by a group of peers during networking receptions that take place each year at the NADO Annual Training Conference and the National Rural Transportation Peer Learning Conference. The top winners selected by the judges will be honored as Trailblazers, and will be given special recognition during and following the conference. Judges will be looking for projects that show significant evidence of above average innovation. This category will be exclusively for one-of-a-kind projects demonstrating unique innovation.

During NADO’s 2010 Annual Training Conference in San Diego, August 28 – 31, four organizations were selected from among the 50 Innovation Award winners to recieve Trailblazer Awards. Two additional organizations were selected as Trailblazer Award winners at the National Rural Transportation Conference in St. Louis, October 20 – 22. These organizations were selected from among the 22 Excellence in Regional Transportation Awards Winners. The 2010 NADO Trailblazers are:

Central Ohio Local Food System Assessment and Plan – Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (Columbus, OH)
Cleveland Historic Cemetery – Georgia Mountains Regional Commission (Gainesville, GA)
Mountain Landscapes Initiative/Region A Toolbox – Southwestern Commission (Sylva, NC)
Recycle This Site – Land-of-Sky Regional Council (Asheville, NC)
Prairie Pathways Initiative – Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments (Waterloo, IA)
Travel Demand Web-based Toolkit – Southwest Region Planning Commission (Keene, NH)

All Innovation Award winners receive a certificate, a press release to share with local media, and the opportunity to have a photo taken with NADO leadership during both conferences. Award winners are also often highlighted through NADO publications, outreach activities and highlighted as conference participants. The projects chosen as Trailblazers receive additional recognition and a special award.

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Organization Name

The primary applicant must be a NADO member. Project partners, both NADO and non-members, can be recognized under "Project Partners" below.

Primary Project Contact:
This person will be the designated point of contact for all future awards-related correspondence and will receive the printed award certificates and other hardcopy materials should the project win an award.

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Organization Address

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Project Location (if different from Organization Address)

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Organization Logo

Please upload your organization's logo which will be included on the winning project award certificate.

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Project Information

Project Title

This title will be printed on the award certificate for winning projects and in all 2022 NADO Impact Award materials and cannot be changed.

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If you chose "Other" above, describe your project category in 3-5 words.

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Project Summary & Questions
Please craft clear, thoughtful, and engaging responses to the following questions. Use the following sections to tell us how your project has made an impact, such as its use of creative funding mechanisms, efforts to create efficiencies or reduce costs, unique partnership models, and emphasis on building resilience and/or enhancing your region's quality of life.

For award-winning projects, the information provided below may be used verbatim to inform project descriptions that will be published in the 2023 NADO Impact Awards materials and included on the NADO website.

Please describe your project in one sentence

Brief Project Summary

What was your organization's direct role in the project?

What are the project's accomplishments or results to date?

How does this project support your region's vision for economic development and improved quality-of-life?

What makes this project impactful and deserving of an award?

Does this project support or relate to your region's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)? If yes, in what ways?

Project Partners (please list each partner, separated by a semicolon)

Project Photos

Please submit at least one photo showing your project in action. Please keep file size to a minimum (<2Mb) and use JPEG format. If uploading multiple files, ZIP files prior to submitting. If you have trouble uploading images they can be directly emailed to Brett Schwartz at [email protected] Include the project title they correspond to in the subject line of your email.

Note: Submitted photos may be used in NADO Impact Awards materials and in other NADO published materials with credit to your organization. Please also consider submitting photos for NADO's 2023 Photo Contest, which will be held this summer.

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