"The city’s Community Chalkboard and Podium: Charlottesville’s Monument to the First Amendment, has won the Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence’s $10,000 Silver Medal Award.

The award celebrates urban places that distinguish themselves for their design and for the social contributions to the community they serve.

“We are both very excited and very grateful for the award,” says Josh Wheeler, with The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. “We plan to use the funds for educational outreach programs,” benefiting local students and artists.

The $50,000 Gold Medal went to Inner-City, Los Angeles, an art facility that provides art instruction for at-risk children.

Other silver medalists include Hunts Point Riverside Park, Bronx, NY; Millennium Park, Chicago and St. Joseph Rebuild Center, New Orleans." (Chiara Canzi, C-Ville Weekly, June 22, 2009)

For a complete listing of coverage of the Chalkboard on the Loper website.