Read our latest media releases featuring Foundation news, events and developments in our Project Towns.
The Orton Family Foundation is pleased to announce that William Travis, Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder, has been named the first Orton Family Foundation Fellow.
The Orton Family Foundation, in partnership with Placeways, LLC, is pleased to announce the release of CommunityViz® Version 3, powerful yet affordable planning software that employs the shared language of visualization to improve the way land use decisions are made.
The Sixth Community Planning Collaborative is a benchmark event in community planning. PlaceMatters, a program of the Orton Family Foundation, has organized this pathbreaking national event since 1998 to showcase the integration of public participation and decision-support tools in community planning.
At their annual meeting this month, the Vermont Land Trust honored Orton Family Foundation founder and Board Chairman Lyman Orton with the 2005 Francisca King Thomas and John Bailey Dunne Award for Vermonters who have profoundly influenced the lives of the people and communities in the state.
The Orton Family Foundation is pleased to announce that the Foundation's award-winning Community Mapping Program will move to the Institute for Technology Development (ITD), a Mississippi-based nonprofit research institute affiliated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The Orton Family Foundation is pleased to announce that the Foundation's Youth Community Video program will move to Rural School and Community Trust (RSCT), a national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the quality of education and community life in rural America.
The Orton Family Foundation is pleased to announce it has hired Ken Snyder, a social entrepreneur, environmental planner and founder of PlaceMatters, the Denver-based program that helps communities learn about, select and implement innovative civic engagement and decision-support tools and methods.
The Orton Family Foundation is pleased to announce that it is making its CommunityViz® planning software available to communities at the new, reduced cost of $185, removing a significant barrier to access to communities across the country in need of effective planning tools and methods.
For the past six years, the Trustees and staff of The Orton Family Foundation have focused our efforts and resources on developing and disseminating a suite of innovative planning support and education tools meant to improve the way land use decisions are made in the service of sustainable communities.
In 2009, the COMMUNITYMATTERS conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountain West, where we will bring together citizens, elected officials, educators, practitioners, innovators and tool providers to learn, share and build connections.