Rick Goodemann, CEO
Jennifer Prins, former Director of Community Development
Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership

Mark Dahlquist, Executive Director, NeighborWorks Pocatello

Lorna Bourg, President, Southern Mutual Help Association

Challenge: Many small-scale fishers suffered severe financial losses after BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They are vitally important to the Louisiana economy and culture and needed capital to restart their businesses, but they lacked access financial support.

Patrick McNamara, CEO
Jaime Joshi, Communications Coordinator
Housing Partnership, Inc.

John Fowler, President and CEO, Peoples' Self-Help Housing

Challenge: To rehabilitate a dilapidated former camper park in the California beach town of Carpinteria, which became housing of last resort for low-income households living under conditions of extreme poverty.

Jeffrey Eaton, CEO, Arbor Housing and Development

Michael Tubbs, CEO
Holly T. Hicks, Communications and Marketing Specialist
Community Action Partnership of North Alabama

Merten Bangemann-Johnson, CEO, NeighborWorks Umpqua

Challenge: The southern Oregon fishing industry was struggling as it faced global competition, with its seafood often sold to corporate buyers for export instead of to local residents. As a result, access to fresh seafood was limited.

Donna Blaze, CEO, Affordable Housing Alliance