Bill Stickland’s organizations have created a model for arts, education, training, and, most importantly, hope—and have reshaped the business of social change in America. Strickland’s accomplishments, though, are more than just social programs. They constitute a movement – one that turned a near bankrupt community training center in Pittsburgh into one of the most successful organizations in America. Building on that success, new centers have already been built in Cincinnati, San Francisco, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and many more are planned across the country. In the course of his remarkable journey he has won a MacArthur Genius grant, lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, served on the Board of the National Endowment for the Arts, and received the “Coming Up Taller” Award, presented to him at the White House by former first lady Hillary Clinton.