Con Hogan Award

The Con Hogan Award

For ten years, from 2015 to 2024, the Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial, Community Leadership honored Con Hogan and his life’s work. The award celebrated leaders who embody his vision of a Vermont that places the highest value on the public good and seizes responsibility for turning that vision into reality. Recipients were recognized for their commitment to using data and measurement, implementing actionable plans, and making strategic adjustments along the way to achieve their goals.

Award Recipients

To learn more about each of the 10 recipients of the Con Hogan Award, please click on their name or scroll down further down on the page.

About Con Hogan

Con Hogan was an important figure in Vermont. Sadly, he passed away in August 2018. From his work in the public, nonprofit, and private for-profit sectors, he exemplified the kind of thinking and leadership that Vermont needs as we address the challenges of a new century. Con’s down-to-earth management approach was always backed by both sophisticated, tested theory and a nuts-and-bolts practicality.

Whether the focus was corrections, child wellbeing, or health care, Con served his state by working to understand the fundamentals of the situation, finding experts who could educate him about what he didn’t know, setting a vision for what was possible, and getting to work to make that vision reality. Throughout this process, he kept his eye on whether his project was producing the desired results. If it wasn’t, he looked for another way to get the results.

Selection Committee

Award recipients were selected by a committee consisting of individuals who represented a broad range of activities, including health and human services, the arts, government service, early care and education, agriculture, and civic duty.

The Award Committee evolved over the ten years as new members were added to fill vacancies. The following list contains all members of the Con Hogan Award committee from 2015-2024. Committee member listings include members’ roles when they joined the committee.

Alissa Auerbach, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Will Belongia, Vermont Community Loan Fund
*Paul Cillo, Public Assets Institute
Jon Cocina, Vermont Community Foundation
*Stuart Comstock-Gay, Vermont Community Foundation
Steve Dale, Former Human Services Manager
*Paula Duncan, Pediatrician**
*Karen Hein, M.D.
Libby Johnson, Vermont College of Fine Arts
*Scott Johnson, Chair, Con Hogan Award Committee
Ellen Kahler, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
Jane Kimble, Vermont Community Foundation
*Cheryl Mitchell, Treleven
Holly Morehouse, Vermont Afterschool
Dr. Etan Nasreddin-Longo, Vermont State Police
Jericho Parms, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Deb Richter, M.D.
Felipe Rivera, Vermont Community Foundation
Arnold Isadore Thomas, Pastor Emeritus of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jericho
Karen Scott, Vermont Community Foundation
Heidi Mohlman Tringe, Partner – MMR, LLC
*Diana Wahle, NAACP of Windham County
Linda Wheatley, Gross National Happiness USA & VT Principal’s Association

*Founding Members
**Deceased

Ongoing Impact

The committee and the Vermont Community Foundation announced at the 2024 Award Ceremony that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with the UVM Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships. Together they will gather, report, and facilitate the use of data that reflects indicators of social wellbeing to serve Vermont and its communities.

Leahy Institute Director Tricia Coates shared, “We are truly honored to hold this aspect of Con Hogan’s legacy by providing the best data we possibly can through the land grant institution to Vermont communities and to the state.”