One Big Thing: Bill serves as the founding director of the Interurban Initiative at Sagamore. Bill is translating his decades-long leadership experience at LISC to help Midwest communities envision and deliver transformational projects in underinvested neighborhoods by linking best practices and tools across the fields of community and economic development.

• Bill teamed up with Super Bowl 2012 host committee chairman Mark Miles to architect a $150 million neighborhood revitalization project in tandem with the game.
• Bill was selected as the 23^rd awardee of the prestigious Michael Carroll Award, recognizing his career-long commitment to reviving urban neighborhoods.
• Philanthropy magazine published an extensive feature of Bill and his wife Joanna’s efforts redeveloping their neighborhood, Herron-Morton, on Indianapolis’ Old North Side. 
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• Check out Bill’s op-ed in the Indianapolis Business Journal laying out his work at Interurban and the importance of focusing on economic and community development in small towns and urban neighborhoods. 
• Read a Q&A with Bill reflecting on his time at LISC and lessons learned throughout his career supporting local development.
• Learn about the leadership of Bill’s wife and Harrison Center Executive Director, Joanna Taft, in creating a “micromuseum” of the Polk Sanitary Milk Co. inside Indy’s Polk Stables.