Nonprofit Times

The NPT Power & Influence Top 50, Class of 2009 The 12th annual celebration of some of the sector’s top executives and thinkers.

Blair H. Taylor
President & CEO
Los Angeles Urban League
Los Angeles, Calif.
Establishing models to replicate is all Taylor does. He and his organization raised $13 million and involved businesses in a 70-block area, sort of a safe zone, around embattled Crenshaw High. You can’t learn if you’re not safe. And, with the state’s budget in shambles, he led a business delegation to China to try to jumpstart L.A.’s economy.