The No. 1 goal is to try to promote a positive image of all of our organizations.

Our panel selected these organizations based on the creative ways they're working to build relationships with the next generation of supporters. For these organizations to thrive and deliver their vital services in Northeast Ohio, it is critical that they think about ways to engage these supporters and sustain those relationships over the long term.

Through our partnership with government, industry and community organizations, we want to make a lasting and positive contribution to the communities in which we work.

The ABC is biting the bullet. We see this as a positive statement about where the ABC wants to go over the next few years. It's an opportunity to trade its way out of the doldrums.

It's important in a situation like this to keep everybody positive. I've told the kids that things like this happen in life. It's a matter of how you learn to handle these things.

It's looking very positive for online advertising - a medium that has finally come of age. But this phenomenal growth masks the fact that the numbers would be far higher if the advertising industry woke up to the potential of the medium.