Awards

National Gold Medal Award (2006) winner for Park and Recreation Management recognizing:

• Excellence in long-range planning 
• Fiscal resource management
• Citizen support systems
• Environmental stewardship
• Preservation
• Technological integration
• Program planning and assessment
• Professional development
• Agency recognition
• Services for special populations
• Illinois Distinguished Agency

Additional Awards

• 1999 IPRA Outstanding Facility & Parks Award Division III – BPD Museum
• 1999 IAPD/IPRA Distinguished Park & Recreation Agency
• 2000 IPRA Outstanding Program/Special Event Award - Doggie Dip
• 2001 IAPD/IPRA Conference - Agency Showcase Competition - Best of Show - Special Logo Award (Kids' Place logo)
• 2004 IPRA Professional Recognition Award - Executive Director Steve Scholten
• 2006 NRPA National Gold Medal Award - Excellence in Park & recreation management
• 2007 IAPD/IPRA Conference - Agency Showcase Competition - Third Place - Most Improved Marketing Piece Division B
• 2008 IAPD/IPRA Conference - Agency Showcase Competition - First Place - Single Catalog Cover Division A (2007-08 Winter/Spring Brochure)
• 2009 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks" – Bloomingdale Bank & Trust
• 2009 NRPA Great Lakes Regional Council Outstanding Professional - Executive Director Carrie Fullerton
• 2011 IAPD "Outstanding Citizen Volunteer of the Year" - Frank Saverino of the Bloomingdale Parks Foundation
• 2011 IPRA "Citizen Volunteer of the Year" - Frank Saverino of the Bloomingdale Parks Foundation
• 2012 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks - Small Business" First Runner-Up – Ducat Chiropractic & Sports Medicine
• 2013 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks - Large Business" - Adventist GlenOaks Hospital
• 2013 IPRA Outstanding Facility & Parks Award - Sunnyside Park
• 2014 IPRA Professional of the Year - Carrie Fullerton
• 2014 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks - Large Business" - Stratford Square Mall
• 2015 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks - Small Business" - Bloomingdale Bank & Trust
• 2015 IPRA Young Professional of the Year - Jason Posluszny 
• 2015 IPRA C&M Section Rising Star - Josh Hendricks
• 2016 IPRA Park District Youth License Plate - Best Promotional Practices Award
• 2016 IPRA Young Professional of the Year - Liz Serruto 
• 2016 University of Illinois Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism Joseph J. Bannon Practitioner Award - Carrie Fullerton
• 2017 IAPD "Best Friend of Illinois Parks - Small Business" - Eagle Falls Dentistry
• 2017 IAPD 20-Year Board Member Service Anniversary Award - Buzz Puccio
  
• 2018, 2017 Bloomingdale Chamber of Commerce - Best of Bloomingdale (Not-for-Profit)
• 2018 Character Counts! Award Recipient - Karima Berrabah, Sandy Vangundy (2015)
• 2018 IAPD Commissioner of the Year - Buzz Puccio
• 2018 Office of Illinois Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti Shared Service Best Practices Award
• 2018 IAPD 20-year Board Member Service Anniversary Award - Mike Vogl
• 2019 IAPD Honored Professional Award - Carrie Fullerton
• 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 - Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada
• 2019 Best Summer Camp, Daily Herald Reader's Choice Top Pick
• 2019 IAPD "Best Partnership Award" - Bloomingdale Church
• 2020 IAPD Power of the Parks Award
• 2020 IPRA Communications & Marketing Section - Distinguished Member Award - Josh Hendricks
• 2021 IAPD "Give Us Your Best Shot" - Recreation - Art Camp - Third Place - Josh Hendricks
• 2021 Illinois Parks' Top Journalists by the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) - Daily Herald's Trey Arline - Nominated by Bloomingdale Park District
• 2021 School District 13 Community Exemplar - Sandy Vangundy
• 2021 IPRA Exceptional Workplace Award
• 2022 Daily Herald Readers' Choice Award: Summer Camp, Best Picnic/Reunion, and Best Place for a Quinceanera (Museum)
• 2022 Bloomingdale Chamber of Commerce's Georgene Geils Woman of the Year Award - Sandy Vangundy
• 2022 Bloomingdale Chamber of Commerce's Best of Bloomingdale - Best Non-Profit Award
• 2022 Bloomingdale Chamber of Commerce's Best of Bloomingdale - 25-Year Member Award
• 2022 IAPD 25-Year Board Member Service Anniversary Award - Buzz Puccio
• 2022 IAPD Good Sportsmanship Award - Bryen Travis, Volunteer
• 2022 Character Counts - Bryen Travis, Volunteer
• 2023 IPRA Community Impact Award - Sandy Vangundy
• 2023 Best of Bloomingdale - Recreation, Bloomingdale Park District
• 2023 Best of Bloomingdale - Non-Profit Children & Family Services, Bloomingdale Parks Foundation
• 2023 IAPD Best Friend of Illinois Parks – Small Business Award, Pan American Bank & Trust
• 2024 VFW Continuous Support for Veterans and Veteran Families
• 2024 Character Counts - Jackie Tithof Steere