The Mike Fritz Community
Builder Award was created to honor Mike Fritz, the local business owner whose
vision and generosity helped to found the Communities That Care Coalition in
2002. The award is given to a community member
who demonstrates vision and/or leadership in integrating the programs,
policies, practices or goals of the Communities That Care Coalition into their
own agency, institution, or work for the betterment of the community.
Previous Mike Fritz award winners
include:
- 2008: Kristie Faufaw of Ryan and Casey Liquor
- 2009: Bryan Smith of the
Greenfield Youth Commission
- 2010: Sergeant Robbie Haag of the Orange Police
Department
- 2011: Mandii Singleton, Alyssa Sutton,
Cheyenna Woodard, Andy Sutton, Zeb Herzig, Alexx Badillo, Matt Lee, Juliana
Sheinheit, and B.J. Miller from The 84
Project at Community Action Youth Programs
- 2012: Donna Woodcock of Greenfield
High School
- 2013: Jared Libby of the Brick House
- 2014: Lucinda Brown of
Reinventing Justice
- 2015: Corey Sanderson of Second Congregational Church
- 2016: Cheryl Dukes of the University of Massachusetts College of Nursing
- 2017: Sherry Patch of the Town of Sunderland
- 2018: Dana Mengwasser of the
Brick House
- 2019: Yves Salomon-Fernández of Greenfield Community College
- 2020: Kia
Burton-King of Community Action Family Center
- 2021: Kirsten Levitt of
Stone Soup Café
- 2022: Vicki Citron, Gloria D. Matlock, & Orice Jenkins of Música Franklin
- 2023: Amy McMahan of Mesa Verde
