Jerry Paffendorf is co-founder of LOVELAND Technologies, a software company that does interactive city mapping and crowd sourcing.

Toby Barlow is Creative Director at Team Detroit, Ford Motor Company’s agency of record; co-owner of Nora, the Midtown design-focused retailer; co-owner of soon-to-open Corktown restaurant Gold Cash Gold; co-founder of Write-A-House, a Detroit writing residency program; and co-founder of Signal-Return, a traditional letter press design and print shop in Eastern Market. He has vision for Detroit he wants others to see.

555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios’s mission is to strengthen communities with the arts. 

Midtown Detroit Inc. was created to help guide development, enhance public awareness, encourage reinvestment, and celebrate the cultural aspects of the Midtown Detroit district. 

In its remarkable 22 year history, Motor City Blight Busters, in conjunction with its coalition of community partners, can proudly claim 120,000 volunteers, who have contributed more than 658,000 volunteer hours to paint 684 homes, board up and secure 379 abandoned buildings, renovate 176 houses and build 114 new ones to make suitable housing for 1,160 people.