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Purpose Built Communities Welcomes New Team Members
Purpose Built Communities is proud to announce the hiring of two outstanding professionals with deep and diverse experience. Melissa Devereaux, who joins the organization as Vice President based in...
View ArticleTulsa’s Growing Together Joins Purpose Built Communities Network
Growing Together is the 14th Network Member Nationally and the First in Oklahoma Atlanta, GA – Purpose Built Communities recently welcomed Growing Together, the community quarterback of a neighborhood...
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Story of East Lake Featured on New Slate Podcast
Slate’s new Placemakers Podcast devoted its second episode to tell the story of the revitalization of East Lake Meadows in Atlanta, GA. The transformation of East Lake is the blueprint for the Purpose...
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Kansas City’s Urban Neighborhood Initiative (UNI) Joins Purpose Built...
UNI is the 15th Network Member and the first in Missouri Atlanta – Purpose Built Communities is proud to announce that Kansas City’s Urban Neighborhood Initiative (UNI) is now its 15th Network Member...
View ArticleLetter of Recommendation: East Lake
With this letter I express my wholehearted support of Purpose Built Communities in its application for the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change Grant. Download full letter The post Letter of...
View ArticleLetter of Recommendation: Center for Community Development Investments at The...
On behalf of the Center for Community Development Investments at The San Francisco Federal Reserve, I am pleased to provide this Letter of Support for Purpose Built Communities and their work to end...
View ArticleLive Stream: Shirley Franklin at The American Justice Summit
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View ArticlePurpose Built Communities: Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Lives
This short video describes the work of Purpose Built Communities and feature several of our Network Members. Enjoy! The post Purpose Built Communities: Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Lives appeared...
View Article#PurposeBuilt2016 Conference Videos & Presentations
What an amazing gathering in Birmingham, AL for our #PurposeBuilt2016 Conference from October 17 to October 19, 2016. Get a glimpse of some of the amazing moments from the Conference by selecting a...
View ArticlePurpose Built Communities Welcomes Michelle Matthews as Senior Vice President
Atlanta – Purpose Built Communities is proud to announce that Michelle Matthews has joined the organization as Senior Vice President. She is a trusted advisor with more than 30 years of experience in...
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Neighborhoods and Education Reform – Purpose Built Communities in the...
Our leadership recently published two pieces in the Huffington post about issues that are critical to our nation’s future – the importance of investing in neighborhoods and how the current education...
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Putting Our Future in the Bank (Literally and Figuratively)
By Sally Mackin, Executive Director, Woodlawn Foundation It’s ironic that the James Rushton Early Learning and Family Success Center in Birmingham, Alabama’s Woodlawn neighborhood is inside of a bank...
View ArticleA Legacy to Celebrate: The First Graduating Class at Charles R. Drew Charter...
On Saturday, May 20, Charles R. Drew Charter School in the East Lake neighborhood of Atlanta graduated its first class of high school seniors. Since opening as Atlanta’s first charter school in 2000,...
View ArticleSoutheast Raleigh Promise at Work
After working behind-the-scenes for more than a year, Southeast Raleigh Promise is bringing together community leaders, government officials, local residents and others on June 15 to increase momentum...
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The Tale of One City: Working with Habitat for Humanity to Change the...
Between the University of Tulsa and the city’s busy downtown lies the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood. Its story began when city streetcars, the iconic Route 66 and jobs in the mining and oil industries...
View ArticleTransformative Work of Purpose Built Communities Featured in New Book
The greatest hope of people working in the social sector is to make a positive, long-term impact. However, current funding systems incentivize a short-term focus on “outputs” – like the number of...
View ArticleGrove Park Foundation Joins Purpose Built Communities Network
New Organization works with neighborhood partners to focus on housing affordability, education, health and economic opportunity Atlanta, GA – Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood has a new organization...
View ArticleA New School – and a Bit of Luck – Will Be Keys to Success in Omaha’s...
In 2011, Willie Barney and Michael Maroney, two Omaha business and civic leaders who were helping to address economic disadvantage in the northern part of the city, traveled to Atlanta to learn what...
View ArticleVIDEO: Kansas City’s Urban Neighborhood Initiative
The Wendell Phillips neighborhood of Kansas City, MO, is considered by many to be the cradle of the African American community in that city. The Urban Neighborhood Initiative (UNI) is hard at work with...
View ArticlePurpose Built 2017 Conference Video Presentations
The 2017 Purpose Built Conference in Omaha, Nebraska from October 2–4 was the largest turnout ever with 430 registered attendees from 53 cities. Thank you to every speaker, every moderator, every...
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