ULI Colorado Gets Impact Award as Top District Council

Fall Meeting is a highlight of any ULI year. But last week’s gathering of 6,000 in Chicago brought particularly good news for ULI Colorado.

For example: Among 53 District Councils in North America, ULI Colorado was honored with ULI’s inaugural Impact Award recognizing us as the local organization with the strongest positive impact on our community.

Our chair Kirk Monroe received a substantial trophy to be passed on to another District Council next year.

• ULI Colorado was also featured on the cover of ULI’s new “District Council Impact in the Community” report.
• Cited were such efforts as our TAPs program, Real Estate Diversity Initiative, Cracking the Code workshops, and of course our own Impact Awards next month.
• ULI Colorado received a $10,000 grant from the ULI Foundation to fund two Building Healthy Places advisory panels in 2014
• We entered the “Big 7” of “supersize” District Councils with 1,000 + members. The others are Boston, Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco and South Florida.
• More than 60 ULI Colorado members attended our networking social in Chicago last Thursday
• The Colorado Health Foundation announced it is continuing partnership with ULI to promote Building Healthy Places. The CHF’s Anne Warhover and Hillary Fulton were in Chicago to participate in BHP programs
• “Intersections,” a new ULI publication on Building Healthy Places, was introduced. ULI Colorado member Kathleen McCormick was principal author of this publication.
• After the devastating floods of Sept. 2013 and major fires in previous years, ULI Colorado is negotiating with ULI’s Advisory Services program to bring a national panel on Resilient Communities to Colorado in March. This could receive major support from a national foundation.

All told it was a very good meeting in Chicago and a great week for ULI Colorado. We are thankful for the support of our 1,000+ members and 300+ volunteers for making this an effective organization. Thank you all!