ICMA’s Program Excellence Award for Citizen Involvement recognizes successful strategies designed to inform citizens about the local government services available to them and to include citizens in the process of community decision making. The award concentrates on such areas as community consensus building and adult (nonstudent) citizenship education. In 2005, ICMA presented the award in the 50,000-and-greater population category to San Antonio, Texas, City Manager J. Rolando Bono, and former City Manager Alex Briseño for the Community Building and Neighborhood Planning Program. This article describes how the program helped strengthen neighborhoods within the city. Neighborhoods were encouraged by the city to form community-based partnerships with businesses, nonprofits, schools, public agencies and other groups to empower their residents to articulate community values in plans that will guide future community development decisions. Learn more about ICMA's Annual Awards program.