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.… Continue →
Purpose Built Communities Top Stories
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… Continue →
Tulsa’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 transformation… Continue →
VIDEO: Connect Community and the Power of Partnerships in Houston
Over the past few decades, cheap rents have attracted many first-generation immigrants to settle in Sharpstown/Gulfton area of Houston, TX. As a result, this has become the most densely populated… Continue →
VIDEO: Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT) in Columbus, OH
PACT, a Purpose Built Communities Network Member in Columbus, Ohio, is the community quarterback organization focused on the Near East Side neighborhood where they are working with partners to implement… Continue →
New Video Series from Edutopia on Drew Charter School and What Makes it Successful
This fantastic new video series from Edutopia explores three areas in which Drew Charter School distinguishes itself and helps students achieve their full potential: STEAM +Project Based Learning; creating safe… Continue →
VIDEO: LIFT Orlando – Transforming the Communities of West Lakes
LIFT Orlando joined the Purpose Built Communities Network in 2015. Their focus area is called the Communities of West Lakes, which sits adjacent to the Orlando Citrus Bowl in west Orlando. Since… Continue →
Citrus Bowl Shines Light on LIFT Orlando
If you watched the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl on New Years Day on ABC, you might have seen this 60-second PSA about our network member LIFT Orlando. We are very proud of… Continue →
Purpose Built Communities featured in The Financial Times
The Financial Times featured Purpose Built communities in a story published on December 12 titled “Fifth of US adults live in or near to poverty” (subscription required) that discusses the increasing… Continue →
Purpose Built Communities Conference 2015 Videos
What an amazing gathering in Fort Worth! More than 350 people from 49 communities in 47 cities participated in our Sixth Annual Purpose Built Communities Conference from October 5 to October… Continue →