Reach for the Stars: The 2014 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards Winners

"Foundations and individuals alike responded well to the basic tenets of EDWINS: economic development for Cleveland, individual empowerment for students and a profit-making restaurant that would provide the sustainable funding so necessary to successful nonprofits," Chrostowski says. "It took many hours of grant writing, innumerable conversations with potential donors large and small, a handful of trips to prison, and more, but Matt's commitment turned the dream into a reality."