Frank Shea, Executive Director, Urban Edge

Sheila Rice, Executive Director, NeighborWorks Great Falls

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?

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.

Jennifer Reed, Director of Fund Development and Public Relations, Eden Housing, Inc.

By Endya Watson, communications and outreach fellow

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

Some middle school students living at NeighborWorks Boise's Gateway Crossing apartments in Nampa, Idaho, recently took part in an "out-of-this-world" learning experience.