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Livability Wins!

Award-winning resources from AARP Livable Communities are helping neighborhoods, towns, cities and counties nationwide become great places for people of all ages


Awards Won

AARP Housing Design Competition Tool Kit

  • Platinum Award, 2024 MarCom Awards

 

AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit

  • Gold Award, 2023 MarCom Awards
  • Platinum Award, 2024 dotComm Awards
  • Gold Award, 2024 Hermes Creative Awards
  • 2024 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Winner


Creating Community Gardens for People of All Ages

  • 2023 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Finalist
  • 2023 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold
  • 2023 MarCom Awards, Gold
  • 2023 dotCOMM Awards, Gold
  • 2023 APEX Award of Excellence
     

Discovering and Developing Missing Middle Housing

  • 2023 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum
  • 2023 dotCOMM Awards, Platinum
  • 2022 MarCom Awards, Platinum 
     

AARP Disaster Resilience Tool Kit

  • 2023 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Finalist
  • 2023 APEX Grand Award
  • 2023 Hermes Creative Awards, Honorable Mention
  • 2022 MarCom Awards, Gold
  • 2022 dotCOMM Awards, Gold 
     

AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit

  • 2022 MarCom Awards, Honorable Mention
  • 2022 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Winner, Supplemental Publication
  • 2022 dotCOMM Awards, Gold
  • 2022 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
  • 2021 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum 
     

Enabling Better Places: A Handbook for Improved Neighborhoods

  • 2021 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum
  • 2021 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Finalist
     

AARP HomeFit Guide

  • 2022 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
  • 2021 dotCOMM Awards, Gold
  • 2021 EXCEL Awards, Gold
  • 2021 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold
  • 2021 ClearMark Awards, Center for Plain Language, Finalist
  • 2020 MarCom Awards, Platinum
  • 2016 ClearMark Awards, Winner, Before-and-After Long Document
  • 2015 MarCom Awards, Gold 
     

AARP Guía HomeFit

  • 2021 ClearMark Awards, Winner, Spanish Language
     

AARP Rural Livability Workshop Report

  • 2020 MarCom Awards, Platinum
  • 2020 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum
     

The Pop-Up Placemaking Tool Kit

  • 2020 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Honorable Mention
  • 2020 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold 
     

The ABCs of ADUs

  • 2020 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum
  • 2020 EXCEL Awards, Bronze
  • 2019 MarCom, Gold
  • 2019 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Winner 
     

Making Room: Housing for a Changing America

  • 2019 MarCom Awards, Platinum 
  • 2019 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
  • 2019 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold 
     

Where We Live (Book 3)

  • 2019 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards, Finalist
  • 2019 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum 
  • 2018 MarCom Awards, Gold
     

Creating Parks and Public Spaces for People of All Ages

  • 2023 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold 
  • 2023 dotCOMM Awards, Gold
  • 2019 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
  • 2019 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold 
  • 2018 MarCom AwardsHonorable Mention
     

AARP Roadmap to Livability Collection

  • 2019 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
  • 2018 MarCom Awards, Platinum 
  • 2018 Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum 
     

Engaging the Community to Create Community

  • 2019 Hermes Creative Awards, Gold 
     

Where We Live (Book 2)

  • 2017 MIN Editorial & Design Awards, Winner
  • 2017 MarCom Awards, Gold 
     

Where We Live (Book 1)

  • 2016 Nautilus Book Awards, Silver 
     

AARP Imagining Livability Design Collection

  • 2016 ClearMark Awards, Finalist, Original Long Document
  • 2015 MarCom Awards, Platinum 
     

AARP Livability Fact Sheets

  • 2015 ClearMark Awards, Winner, Original Document, Nonprofit 

dotCOMM Awards 

  • Gold Award, e-Newsletter (2024) 
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2023)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2022)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2021)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2019)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2018)


Excel Awards

  • Silver, General Excellence, Newsletter (Digital) (2020)
  • Silver Award: General Excellence, e-Newsletter (2019)


Eddie and Ozzie Awards

  • Finalist, Association/Nonprofit Newsletter (2024)
  • Winner, Association/Nonprofit Newsletter (2022)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2020)
  • Finalist, Association/Nonprofit Newsletter (2019)


Hermes Creative Awards

  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2024) 
  • Gold Winner, e-Newsletter (2023)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2022)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2021)
  • Gold Winner, e-Newsletter (2020)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2019)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2018)
  • Gold Winner, e-Newsletter (2017)


MarCom Awards

  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2024)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2023)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2022)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2020)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2019)
  • Gold, e-Newsletter (2018)
  • Honorable Mention, e-Newsletter (2017)
  • Gold Winner, e-Newsletter (2016)
  • Platinum Winner, e-Newsletter (2015)
  • Gold Winner, e-Newsletter (2014)


ClearMark Awards

  • Winner, Best "Multimedia, Short Content" (2017)


MIN Editorial & Design Awards

  • Honorable Mention, Editorial/E-Letter (2017)
  • Finalist, Best e-Newsletter (2016)
  • Winner, Best E-Newsletter (tied with Architectural Digest) (2014)

Anthem Awards


ClearMark Awards

  • Finalist/Award of Distinction, Best Before-and-After Award (2015)
  • Finalist/Award of Distinction, Best Website (2015)


Eddies and Ozzie Awards


Hermes Creative Awards


dotCOMM Awards 


MarCom Awards

  • Platinum Winner, Microsite (2023)
  • Honorable Mention, Writing (2023) "Before the Highway"
  • Platinum Winner, Microsite (2022)
  • Gold Winner, Microsite (2018)
  • Honorable Mention, Home Page (2017)
  • Platinum Winner, informational website (2016)
  • Gold Winner, Website Association Home Page (2015)
  • Honorable Mention, Landing Page (A-Z Archives) (2015)
  • Gold Winner, Website Home Page (2014)
  • Gold Winner, Microsite (2014)
  • Gold Winner, Association Website (2014)
  • Honorable Mention, Website Design (2014)
  • Honorable Mention, Landing Page (A-Z Archives) (2014)
  • Honorable Mention, Slideshow, "Dangerously Incomplete Streets" (2014)


MIN Editorial & Design Awards

  • Finalist, Best Packaging of Archived Content (2016)
  • Finalist, Best Microsite (2015)
  • Finalist, Best Packaging of Archived Content (2015)
  • Winner, Best Slideshow, "Dangerously Incomplete Streets" (2014)
  • Finalist/Honorable Mention, Best Packaging of Archived Content (2014)
  • Finalist/Honorable Mention, Best Microsite/Continuous Content (2014)


MIN Best of the Web & Digital Awards

  • Finalist/Honorable Mention, Best Microsite (2015)
  • Finalist/Honorable Mention, Best Navigation & Structure (2015)

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