Kudos!: Jeffrey Betcher

Occupation: Community organizer

Home: San Francisco

Achievement: The Quesada Gardens Initiative, which the former Family Violence Prevention Fund organizer co-founded in 2002, has helped convert a formerly crime-riddled median strip and two other patches of urban dirt in the Bayview into community gardens and gathering places.

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