Awards & Acknowledgments
2024 Terry Backer Award
Lisa Rinaman with Waterkeeper Alliance CEO Marc Yaggi and fellow 2024 Terry Backer Award Winner Tofazzal Sohel, Bangladesh’s Khowai River Waterkeeper
2022 FOLIO Best of Jax
Jimmy Orth and Lisa Rinaman accepting the FOLIO Weekly Best Environmental Advocate Award
2019 Florida Times-Union Eve Award
Lisa Rinaman speaking at the Eve Award Luncheon
2017 Melody Starr Anne Bishop Community Service Award
Rising Tides members accept the Melody Starr Anne Bishop Community Service Award from the City of Jacksonville
Thank You to Our Community Partners for Recognizing our Organization, Staff and Volunteers
- 2004 | Neil Armingeon, the St. Johns Riverkeeper, is named Folio Weekly’s Person of the Year.
- 2005 | St. Johns Riverkeeper receives the CSX Lifetime Environmental Achievement Award.
- 2006 | The Northeast Florida Regional Council presents the Regional Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship to Neil Armingeon.
- 2006 | The Green Monster and Revenge of the River documentaries both receive first place honors at the national Awards for Reporting on the Environment.
- 2007 | St. Johns Riverkeeper receives the Zone VIII Conservation Award from the Garden Club of America.
- 2009 | St. Johns Riverkeeper receives the Florida Wildlife Federation’s Water Conservationist of the Year award.
- 2011 | The Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board presents the Christi P. Veleta Environmental Award to Neil Armingeon.
- 2011 | The Carol and Bob Grimes Environmental Activist Award is presented to Neil Armingeon.
- 2013 | St. Johns Riverkeeper receives the Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Organization Award.
- 2013 | Rising Tides, the young professionals group for St. Johns Riverkeeper, receives the Environmental Achievement Award from the Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board.
- 2014 | St. Johns Riverkeeper receives the Ninah May Holden Cummer Award from the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens for building artful connections between people and the environment.
- 2009 – 2014 | Folio Weekly readers vote St. Johns Riverkeeper Best Local Environmental Activist.
- 2015 | Keep Jacksonville Beautiful presents the 2015 Jake Godbold Award to Executive Director Jimmy Orth.
- 2015 | St. Johns Riverkeeper’s education team is honored at the Jacksonville Mayor’s Environmental Awards luncheon.
- 2016 – 2017 | The City of Jacksonville presents Rising Tides with the Melody Starr Anne Bishop Community Service Award.
- 2018 | The Christi P. Veleta Environmental Award is presented by the Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board to Jimmy Orth.
- 2019 | Folio Weekly readers vote St. Johns Riverkeeper Best Local Environmental Activist.
- 2019 | Florida Times-Union Eve Award presented to Lisa Rinaman.
- 2022 | FOLIO Weekly awards St. Johns Riverkeeper their Best of Jax Award for Best Environmental Advocate.
- 2024 | Waterkeeper Alliance presents the prestigious Terry Backer Award to Lisa Rinaman.