Mission Statement
The Mutual of America Community Partnership Award recognizes outstanding nonprofit organizations in the United States that have shown exemplary leadership by facilitating partnerships with public, private or social sector leaders who are working together as equal partners, not as donors and recipients, to build a cohesive community that serves as a model for collaborating with others for the greater good.  

In 1996, Mutual of America Life Insurance Company created the Community Partnership Award to highlight the important contributions that nonprofit organizations, in partnership with public, private and other social sector organizations, make to society. Every year, organizations take part in a national competition to demonstrate the value of their partnerships, their ability to be replicated and their capacity to stimulate new ideas in addressing social issues. The Mutual of America Foundation annually recognizes ten organizations and produces a documentary video of the award-winning partnership. This video is a valuable tool in the partnership's efforts to educate, inform and provide a model of coordinated action for others to emulate.

Now in its 14th year, the Community Partnership Award has recognized partnerships from all across America, expanding public awareness of their work and helping them attract additional partners and new sponsors. These organizations are true leaders in today's society, creating solutions directed at the least advantaged members of their communities. They share a vision of the future in which collaboration, compassionate action and inclusion are the highest values.

Through the Community Partnership Award, Mutual of America recognizes, supports and helps extend the work of these vital partnerships devoted to the public good. It is with enormous pride that Mutual of America presents the Community Partnership Award for 2009.