ICMA’s Community Partnership Award recognizes the programs or processes that demonstrate innovative, multiparticipant involvement between and/or among a local government and other governmental entities, private sector businesses, individuals, or nonprofit agencies to improve the quality of life for residents or provide more efficient and effective services. ICMA’s 2008 Community Partnership Award in the 10,000 to 49,999 population category goes to the city of Ferndale, Michigan, City Manager Robert J. Bruner, and The Lighthouse of Oakland County, Inc., and Judith Robinson, executive director for the Porch Light Partnership.