The Ford Foundation awarded the Center $100,000 in 1995 and named it one of 15 Innovations in American Government Award winners. Administered by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the program honors exemplary initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels that provide creative solutions to important public problems. CTG was honored for its program of partnerships with businesses and academic institutions, for its ability to provide low-risk, low-cost assessments of information technology applications to mission-critical public problems, and for its knowledge building capacity which has allowed thousands of government managers to benefit from projects conducted by only a few.