• The Durham, NC MSA ranked #22 on the Gallup Poll's Overall Well-Being Composite Score for Medium and Small Metro Areas.
• The Latino Community Credit Union brought home the Southern Growth Policies Board's 2010 Innovator award in recognition of its efforts to improve economic opportunities and quality of life in North Carolina.
• Durham Public Schools will continue to close the achievement gap between African-American male students and their peers with help from a grant secured from the NEA Foundation for the Redefining Futures for African-American Males Initiative.
• iContact was ranked the #1 Email Marketing Service Provider and Resource for Web professionals according to Website Magazine's 2010 Top 50 rankings.
• The City of Durham's sound financial management of its water and sewer operations has been rewarded through affirmation of its 'AAA' bond rating from Fitch Ratings allowing the City to borrow money at the lowest interest rates available.
• The Hillandale Golf Course golf shop earned a spot among the "100 Best Golf Shops" for the 23rd consecutive year and was one of 25 public facilities honored according to Golf World.
• RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.
• Durham Pastor Laurie Hays Coffman's 30-minute film, "Coming Out, Coming In: Faith, Identity, Belonging," earned the distinction of Topical Documentary of the year as awarded by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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