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Dorothy Richardson Awards for Resident Leadership

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2009 Award Winners

Audrey Browder
Nominating Organization: Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, Inc., New Orleans, La.

Browder is a natural born leader and former teacher who considers her neighborhood – the Central City/Holy Ghost community – her classroom at large. Browder has led New Orleans civic and religious organizations for more than 20 years and has been actively involved in bringing back New Orleans following the 2005 hurricanes.

Janice Curry
Nominating Organization: NeighborWorks New Horizons, New Haven, Conn.

A resident since 2002, Curry helped launch NeighborWorks’ New Horizons homeownership program in 2003, increased the number of residents on the Resident Leader Council, and organizes the organization’s NeighborWorks Week activity, which gives volunteers the opportunity to beautify the town’s senior housing complex.

Jeffery Gibney
Jeffrey Gibney
Nominating Organization: South Bend Heritage Foundation, South Bend, Ind.

A former executive director of South Bend Heritage Foundation, Gibney is now South Bend’s executive director of Community and Economic Development. For more than 30 years Gibney has worked tirelessly to bring his fellow residents together to transform South Bend neighborhoods into places where people can live, work, and thrive.

Paul Gillick
Nominating Organization:Neighborhood Housing Services of Lackawanna County, Scranton, Penn.

For nearly 30 years Gillick has been “at the table” in his community, volunteering his talent and time to work with his fellow community members to strengthen Scranton neighborhoods. Gillick is a man with a true commitment to community, personal character, and excellence in all he does.

Delores Lintel
Nominating Organization: NeighborWorks Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb.

For more than 40 years Lintel has committed herself to preserving the integrity of her Clinton neighborhood and the historic integrity of surrounding Lincoln communities. In the mid-1970s Lintel and her coalition of resident leaders led the charge to defeat a planned highway that was forty years in the making, which would have cut through five Lincoln neighborhoods and had a devastating impact on the community and its residents.

Janice McKenna
Nominating Organization: Home HeadQuarters, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y

President of her community’s neighborhood association in Tipperary Hill, McKenna is at the forefront of neighborhood planning and revitalization efforts and has helped to drive millions of dollars into her community, and motivated fellow residents to get involved in their community as well.

Willie Robinson
Nominating Organization: Neighborhood Housing Services Richmond, Richmond, Calif.

Since 2001 Robinson has served as the ambassador of NHS of Richmond. Robinson’s leadership and deep-seated commitment to his community and NHS has enabled him to secure key partnerships with the financial sector and local government, which have helped the NHS continue to successfully serve Richmond residents.

Angie Vorher

Angie Vorher
Nominating Organization: NeighborWorks Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah

Diminutive in stature but great in spirit, Vorher is a quiet, unassuming leader in her community who tirelessly and enthusiastically works to ensure her fellow residents have a voice in decisions that affect their community.