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The article focuses on the All-American City Awards which awards healthy cities and communities in the United States. Information on the city Marshall, Texas, who won the award in 2014, their strategy of promoting health and physical activity, and how the winners of the awards are picked is presented. Also included is information on the National Civic League (NCL), which established the award in 1949, as well as information on statistics of the obesity rate in the United States and the promotion of healthy eating.

The article discusses the All-American City (AAC) competition in which American cities compete against each other to create programs to address issues of well-being and health. Information on such initiatives including anti-obesity campaigns and youth safety initiatives in different American cities is presented. Projects featured include a funding initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to open a hospital and wellness centers and the organization E.A.T. (Educate, Act and Transform) South, also based in Montgomery, which addresses the high obesity rate in America's southern states.

The article highlights the 2007 All-America City (AAC) Awards in the United States which honors communities for civic excellence. It is said that communities chosen to be an AAC have benefited from the award in a variety of ways including increases in economic growth, communal pride and prestige. Recipients of the ACC awards for 2007 include Flowing Wells, Arizona, Santa Rosa, California and Sierra Madre, California. The article describes the some of the projects and achievements these cities accomplished.

The article provides information on several cities in the United States that were awarded the National Civic League's 2000 All-America City Award, including Fresno, California; Naugatuck River Valley, Connecticut and Worcester, Massachusetts. Details are given outlining the social and local political conditions of each community within the previous decades and their successful establishment and implementation of political reform, community development, and civic engagement promotion through public programs are discussed.

The article focuses on the All-America City Award, which awards American cities with the best developments of the year. Information on the flood in 2008 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa which caused a lot of damage to the city, the city's strategy for their clean up efforts, and their forming of different organizations in order to rebuild the city is presented. Also included is information on the efforts to restore the communities in Cedar Rapid, as well as information on their improvement of art and culture in the city.

The author reflects on community and vision pride which Americans feel for their cities and communities. He mentions that All-America City Awards provides the National Civic League with evidence that there is great civic pride in the United States. He also states that civic pride helps individuals to cope and heal after losing their goods in natural disasters. Also presented in the article are quotes about the All-America City Awards by city manager of Denver, Colorado, which won the award in 2014 for their efforts in reducing obesity in the city.