This year's Pillar honorees have built a culture where service is ingrained in their values and employees are empowered to support their communities.

Their goal is to make Cleveland ground zero for this young, still emerging technology with potential that is yet to be fully understood.

It’s the ability to make things happen and make his community a better place for everyone that drives and motivates him.

Fred Nance grew up in Cleveland during a time of great social unrest. It was the late 1960s and riots raged against the slow pace of civil rights development. Nance watched and then made a plan to do what he could to make the world a better place.