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15 INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS NAMED FINALISTS FOR PRESTIGIOUS AMERICAN GOVERN... Page 3 of3 said Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards. "The amazing scope of government activity and creativity represented by these eighteen programs should give citizens renewed confidence in the quality of their public servants." Each of the 18 finalists will deliver a public presentation before the National Selection Committee at Harvard University on May 11,2005. The Committee is chaired by David R. Gergen of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard and includes former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former San Diego Mayor Susan Golding, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste and former Congressman William Clinger. For more information about the presentations and how to view them on the Internet, please visit www.ashinstitute.harvard.edu. After a full day of presentations, the committee will select five winners of the Innovations in American Government Award and one winner of the Fannie Mae Foundation Innovations in American Government Award in Affordable Housing, a special award made possible by the Fannie Mae Foundation. The winners will be announced on July 27, 2005 at the 2005 Excellence in Government Conference, in Washington, DC. Each winning program will receive a $100,000 grant to encourage replication of its innovation in other jurisdictions. The Innovations in American Government Awards program, now in its 18th year, is a program of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. The award is administered in partnership with the Council for Excellence in Government. The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its awards program, research, publications, curriculum support, and global network, the Institute champions critical milestones in creative and effective governance and democratic practice. The Council for Excellence in Government is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to improve government performance by strengthening results-oriented management and creative leadership in the public sector, and to build understanding by focusing public discussion on government's role and responsibilities. For more information on the Innovations in American Government program and this year's finalists, please visit www.ashinstitute.harvard.edu or www.excelgov.org. ### http://www.ashinstitute.harvard.edu/Ash/pr_2005f_ash.htm 7/13/2005 I