Rudy Bruner Award winners enliven our nation's cities and provide innovative models for addressing some of our country's most persistent urban ills. 
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The Bruner Loeb Forum applies the expertise of Rudy Bruner Award winners and Loeb fellows and alumna to a wide variety of challenges facing our cities.

These initiatives work to increase effectiveness in the nonprofit service sector by strengthening internal evaluation capacity and the ability to use evaluative thinking in a wide range of organizational areas.

Since its founding in 1963, the Bruner Foundation has been known for innovative thinking about complex social issues, and for its ongoing commitment to meaningful social change.

RUDY BRUNER AWARD
The Bruner Foundation is pleased to announce the 2007 Rudy Bruner Award Winners:

    2007 Gold Medal Winner:
  • Pittsburgh Children's Museum and Family District, Pittsburgh, PA
    2007 Silver Medal Winners:
  • Artists for Humanity Epicenter, Boston, MA
  • Crossroads Project: Brady Street Bus Shelter, Urban Plaza and Marsupial Pedestrian Bridge, Milwaukee, WI
  • High Point Redevelopment, Seattle, WA
  • L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • Redesign of Columbus Circle, New York, NY

BRUNER LOEB FORUM

Two Fora are planned for the winter months. In February we will be in Birmingham, AL to address a variety of development issues, and in the spring we will hold a Forum in Memphis, TN. Stay tuned for details.


EFFECTIVENESS INITIATIVES

The Bruner Foundation is pleased to announce the release of eleven Evaluative Thinking Bulletins . These papers offer specific ways to increase the use of evaluative thinking in organizations with topics ranging from "Board Members and Evaluation" to "Evaluation and HR".