Robert Goldman, President, Montgomery Housing Partnership

Challenge: The Long Branch neighborhood of East Silver Spring, MD, struggled with a declining commercial business district. A lack of investment, blight, crime and neglect kept what should have been a vibrant economic corridor from thriving.

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

Kevin O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer, RUPCO

Bruce Luecke, Interim President and CEO, Homeport
 

Pilar Hogan Closkey, Executive Director, Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society
 
Challenge:  To help low-income families in the historic, but struggling, city of Camden, NJ, thrive in place, while revitalizing the city itself. 


 

Timothy S. Thorland, executive director, Southwest Housing Solutions

Eric Van Dusen, director of community initiatives, NeighborWorks Rochester

By Stephanie Grant, Vice President, Corporate Communications
Wells Fargo

Once a blighted community, there was really no reason to go to Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood. However, over the past seven years that has changed.

Bow, a community of 7,500 residents in bucolic central New Hampshire, is a success story that shows how an affluent community can embrace affordable rental housing, thanks to CATCH Neighborhood Housing.

Robert E. Ansley, president, Orlando Neighborhood Improvement Corp.

Challenge: Our apartment communities lacked opportunities for leadership development and programming for at-risk youth. In part as a result, they suffered from a high crime rate.