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England and the Students.gov team received
the Vice
President's Hammer Award from the National
Partnership for Reinventing Government (August 2000).
The award recognized the team for putting customers
first, cutting red tape, partnering with other agencies,
and improving government service.
The Vice President's Hammer Award is reserved
for teams of pioneers who create an innovative and unique
process or program to make government work better and
achieve results Americans care about. The Award recognizes
accomplishments that are not repetitive of other awards
or do not show only plans for future accomplishments.
Hammer Awards go to teams who have shown large impacts
on customer service, bottom-line results, streamlining
government, saving money and exemplary achievements
in government problem-solving. Nominations should reflect
effective and creative examples of government at its
best.
The Award is the Vice President's answer
to yesterday's government and its $400 hammer. Fittingly,
the award consists of a $6.00 hammer, a ribbon, and
a note from Vice President Gore, all in an aluminum
frame. More than 1,200 Hammer Awards have been presented
to teams comprised of federal employees, state and local
employees, and citizens who are working to build a better
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In May 2000, England and the Students.gov
team received the E-Gov
2000 Trail Blazer Award from E-Gov for developing
an exceptional public -sector solution in the e-government
community. The E-Gov 2000 Award Selection Committee
chose a limited number of programs to distinguish as
E-Gov 2000 Trail Blazers-a new tier of exceptional solutions
that merit recognition within the E-Government community.
The nominated programs (almost 100 total) were judged
by a panel of government and industry leaders in Electronic
Government programs. The E-Gov 2000 selection committee
included representatives from the General Services Administration,
the National Partnership for Reinventing Government,
and the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as industry
counterparts. This small, consultative body reviewed
each nomination and selected 23 programs to recognize
as Trail Blazers in E-Government. |
