Margarita de Escontrias, CEO, Cabrillo Economic Development Corp.

Sandy Salzman, Executive Director, New Kensington Community Development Corp.
 

Malik Ahmed, CEO, Better Family Life, Inc.
 
Challenge: Over 80 percent of the residents in North St. Louis are barely able to make ends meet and suffer from low rates of high school graduation, substance abuse, long-term unemployment and blighted neighborhoods.

Rebecca Reynolds, Executive Director
Little Dixie Community Action Agency, Inc.

Timothy S. Thorland, executive director, Southwest Housing Solutions

Eric Van Dusen, director of community initiatives, NeighborWorks Rochester

Norman Fong, executive director, Chinatown Community Development Center