The Dottie and Ed Stimpson Award for Civic Engagement celebrates the spirit of our founder, Dottie Stimpson, and her late husband, Ed. The couple believed that no problem was so great that it couldn’t be solved by people with open minds, using civil discourse.
Each year, the City Club of Boise honors a person or organization that exemplifies that conviction. In 2011, the club presented the award to the Owyhee Initiative, Inc. Members of that group worked tirelessly over eight years to negotiate an agreement between diverse parties that became the basis for the designation of the 517,000-acre Owyhee Wilderness in southwestern Idaho in 2009.
If you know a person or organization you would like to nominate for the award, please contact us by email, or call 371-2221. In the near future, we will post a nomination form here.