Peter Gagliardi, CEO
Sarah Page, SVP Community Building & Engagement
Way Finders (formerly HAPHousing)

Melissa Hammond, Communications Manager, Community Housing Partners

Robert Tourigny, Executive Director of NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire

Nick Mitchell-Bennett, Executive Director, Community Development Corp. of Brownsville

Ludy Biddle, Executive Director of NeighborWorks of Western Vermont

Challenge: To foster community engagement, pride and cohesiveness through an artistic project that puts digital cameras and training in the hands of residents in a Rutland, VT neighborhood struggling with drugs, crime and poverty.

Joe Myer, Executive Director
Denise Freeman, Housing Counseling Director
National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor Research

Margaux Morisseau, Director of Community Engagement, NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley

Challenge: More than a quarter of the students fail to graduate from high school in Woonsocket, RI, both a symptom and a cause of the city's overall decline. How do we get these poorly performing students to graduate, go to college and break the cycle of poverty?

Linda Hugo, President and CEO
Ginger Segel, Senior Housing and Community Developer
Community Frameworks

Roy Nash, President and CEO, NeighborWorks Waco

Challenge: The 2008 housing crisis was devastating for Waco, Texas. As more houses went into foreclosure, residents were evicted and affordable housing and mortgage loans became difficult to find.