29th Annual Telly Awards

2008 Silver Award

2008 Bronze Award

Telly Silver Award
Video/Non-Broadcast Productions

Telly Bronze Award
Video/Promotional Pieces

The Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency, in conjunction with its video production partner Showreel International, was honored with the highly sought after Telly Silver and Bronze Awards for its quality-of-life DVD, Living the Dream.  There were more than 14,000 entries received from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in this year’s competition.  Less than 10 percent of all winning entries receive the Silver Award and less than 25 percent of all winning entries receive the Bronze Award.

2007 AWARDS

Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP)

2007 MarCom Platinum Award

MarCom Platinum Award
Video/Film/Marketing

The Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency, in conjunction with its video production partner Showreel International, was honored with a prestigious 2007 MarCom Platinum Award for its quality-of-life DVD, Living the Dream.  There were over 5,000 entries received from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in this year’s competition.  The Platinum Award represents the top 20 percent of all MarCom winning entries.

The Aurora Awards Independent Film & Video Competition

2007 Aurora Gold Award

2007 Aurora Gold Award
Economic Development

The Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency, in conjunction with its video production partner Showreel International, was honored with a Aurora Gold Award for its quality-of-life DVD, Living the Dream.  The judges ranked Rancho Cucamonga's entry "High" in Execution, Content and Creativity, calling it an "Outstanding" video. The Gold Award represents the top 20 percent of all Aurora winning entries.

2003 AWARDS

2003 Savvy and Ray Bancroft Awards

Savvy Award
Best Electronic Newsletter (External)

The City-County Communications and Marketing Association presented its prestigious "Savvy Award" to the Redevelopment Agency for its electronic business newsletter, FastTrack.  Honored as the best in its category for populations between 40,000 and 1.5 million, judges described FastTrack as "A directed, focused newsletter.  Fun to look at, easy to navigate, clearly aimed at specific markets.  A valuable tool for business in a growing community."   

Ray Bancroft Award
Most Outstanding City or County Newsletter

In 2003, the Redevelopment Agency was also presented with the esteemed "Ray Bancroft Award" by the City-County Communications and Marketing Association for its electronic business newsletter, FastTrack.  The Ray Bancroft Award honors the most outstanding newsletter in all categories, which includes city and county entries from throughout the United States.  This special award is given to only one recipient each year, and was established to recognize the founder of City Hall Communications and his tireless efforts to raise the standards and effectiveness of communications in local government.  

Outstanding Internet Award Using Web Technology For GIS Applications

The Redevelopment Agency's innovative Web site was honored in February 2001by the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA).  The Agency's Web site, INsideRANCHO.com, was awarded for its innovative use of web technology for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications.

INsideRANCHO.com uses GIS technology to allow retailers, real estate brokers, and business owners find available properties or space in the City of Rancho Cucamonga.  This Web site displays valuable information such as, demographics, aerial photography, pictures of available buildings, property contact information, and links to resources that will allow visitors to make informed location decisions.

Education, Marketing and Promotions Award

The Redevelopment Agency's innovative Web site continues to receive local, state and national recognition.  This newest accolade comes from the California Redevelopment Association (CRA).  INsideRANCHO.com was awarded the CRA Award of Excellence in the category of Education, Marketing and Promotion for the year 2001.  The Redevelopment Agency will be presented with their award at CRA's annual conference in Monterey, California.

Economic Development Promotion Awards (Internet)

The Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) annually recognizes the most creative and outstanding marketing, advertising campaigns and public relations in economic development.  This year The Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency was recognized nationally for its interactive site search program, INsideRANCHO.com. 

CUED awarded the Agency with the Gold Award in the internet campaigns category for populations under 200,000.

Redevelopment Director Honored

Linda Daniels, Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Director was recently honored as a "Woman of Distinction" in the Inland Empire.  Over 800 people attended a luncheon presented by the Inland Valley Business Press honoring 50 special women in the Inland Empire who make a difference.  Linda is pictured with her daughter, Megan.

Education, Marketing and Promotions Award

The Award of Excellence Program brings statewide public and professional recognition to those projects and programs which have made exemplary contributions to the redevelopment process and resulted in the betterment of communities.

The City of Rancho Cucamonga highlighted its direct mail of newsletters, site selection information, trade show involvement, advertising, two web-sites, Shop Rancho Guide, and its Mayor's Round Table discussions.

Map Objects Internet Map Server Award

Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency developed a state-of-the-art technical tool to promote retail space on the Internet. INsideRANCHO.com is an interactive web-site containing dynamic site search information. By simply pointing and clicking, retailers, developers and site search professional can view photographs of prospective sites, find lease space in existing shopping centers and opportunities to develop new shopping centers. ESRI selected this application for its innovation and contribution to GIS using Map Objects on the Internet.

Economic Development Promotion Award

Since adoption of a comprehensive economic development strategic plan in 1996, the Redevelopment Agency has successfully implemented a variety of marketing and promotion strategies suggested in the strategic plan that have leveraged the community’s attributes as well as established a positive business image. Through a comprehensive plan of ad campaigns, direct mailing, site selection information, trade shows, editorials, press releases and an economic development web site, the City has received local, regional, and even national recognition. In its award citation, the Awards Committee noted this program was a city-based effort, rather than a chamber or EDC effort, that successfully communicated a "pro-business" attitude at City Hall. In addition, the program employed "sniper targeting" rather than mass mailing to reach specific targets, successfully coordinating a multitude of tools in its campaign.

Development Partnership Award

The California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED) awarded the Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency and Lewis Homes Management Corp. with an Award of Merit for their partnership in the development of the RC Family Sports Center.  The RC Family Sports Center is a 34,000 square foot community indoor sports facility.  

The RC Family Sports Center is located within a portion of a former 100,000 square foot retailer whose closing had a negative economic impact on the shopping center in which it was located.   The Agency partnered with Lewis Homes Management Corp. to counter the impacts of the former tenants' closing.  This project secured the lease of a second Major anchor (Orchard's Supply Hardware), increase patron visits, and economic activity for the shopping center while providing a recreational facility for the community.