2017 Conference Videos Featuring the Work of Several Network Members
What an incredible gathering in Omaha, Nebraska for our #PurposeBuilt2017 Conference from October 2–4. This year’s conference showcased videos featuring the work of several Network Members. Omaha’s...
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Work Begins on New Charter School in New Orleans
The Bayou District in New Orleans celebrated another milestone on November 11: the groundbreaking for a new charter school building at Columbia Parc. When the building opens in January 2019, it will...
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Small Businesses Get a Good Start with Start:ME Entrepreneur Accelerator
For more than 25 years, GiGail Petty and her sister helped friends and family plan reunions and baby showers, graduation parties and tailgates. As more and more people came to them for their ideas and...
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New Book Highlights Purpose Built Communities & Role of Nonprofits in...
Crime has declined dramatically over the last two decades, and Patrick Sharkey, professor of sociology at New York University, argues that this drop can be attributed in part to the increase in the...
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From My Perspective: Diverse by Design
David Edwards, CEO of Purpose Built Communities By David Edwards, CEO of Purpose Built Communities During our 2017 conference in Omaha, a speaker came up to me and said he had never spoken at a...
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An Educational Pipeline Comes to Life in Charlotte
In their navy blue and gold uniforms, 400 students entered the new K-5 Renaissance West STEAM Academy on the west side of Charlotte, North Carolina on a fall morning in 2017. This day was the first of...
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From My Perspective: What it Takes
Damon Bailey, Community Development Advisor, Purpose Built Communities By Damon Bailey, Community Development Advisor, Purpose Built Communities In a recent interview, President Barack Obama said,...
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From PACT in Columbus, Ohio: A Transferable Approach to Community Engagement
Every neighborhood is unique. Every neighborhood is the same. The local history, the dynamics of culture and the members of a community define a place at a moment in time. Yet, no matter the variables...
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From My Perspective: We Can’t Bypass Discussions About Race
By Michelle L. Matthews Senior Vice President, Purpose Built Communities “White boys who grow up rich are likely to remain that way,” summarized a recent New York Times article about an Equality of...
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From Our Perspective: Building Better Partnerships Way, Way Upstream
By Douglas Jutte, M.D., Executive Director, Build Healthy Places Network, and Carol R. Naughton, President, Purpose Built Communities We recently had a chance to spend the morning with Dr. Jerome...
View ArticleVIDEO: South Rome Redevelopment – The Power of Partnerships
Innovative, cross-sectoral partnerships are important, and in smaller communities, they’re even more critical. Too often, nonprofits and other organizations who are attempting revitalization feel like...
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Building Trust Through Community Engagement in Orlando
The city of Orlando, which is hosting the 9th Annual Purpose Built Communities conference this fall, is home to one of the most dynamic Purpose Built efforts in the country. In some six short years, a...
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From My Perspective: Cradle to College — and Beyond
By Brittany Collins, Community Development Advisor, Purpose Built Communities It is always a thrill to open my mailbox and find a high school graduation announcement. That piece of paper, embossed with...
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Q&A With Drew Charter School’s College and Career Readiness Program Team
Drew Charter School in Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood has pioneered the “cradle to college” education philosophy of Purpose Built Communities. Rachel Kaney and Michelle Stinson are part of a team of...
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Do Your Partners Share the Vision?
Othello Meadows wants you to look at these little girls and think. What circumstances are these girls from? What future do they imagine for themselves? How can their community surround them with the...
View ArticleVideo: Renaissance West Community Initiative in Charlotte, North Carolina
What a difference a few years can make. Founded in 2012, the Renaissance West Community Initiative formed to coordinate momentum from a range of partners to turn a public housing development in West...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Grove Park Foundation – Partnerships for Equity
A partnership is taking root in the Grove Park neighborhood of Atlanta to create equity and good health for the community and its residents. Beginning in 2015 through dialogue with Grove Park...
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Our Take: “Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children...
Since the beginning, the Purpose Built Communities approach to neighborhood revitalization has been informed by the reality that where someone grows up has a profound and lasting impact on their...
View ArticleNeighborhoods Are Never Done
The only constant is change. External forces such as local political transitions, economic trends and shifting culture require those of us who work in neighborhood revitalization to be nimble, to be...
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From Our Perspective: Building Better Partnerships Way, Way Upstream
By Douglas Jutte, M.D., Executive Director, Build Healthy Places Network, and Carol R. Naughton, President, Purpose Built Communities We recently had a chance to spend the morning with Dr. Jerome...
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