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 students in a school instead of how many of them graduate from college and find meaningful employment. What Matters: Investing in Results to … Continue Reading →
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 reform debate is missing the point. The first piece was co-authored by our former Executive Board Chair of Purpose Built Communities, Shirley Franklin and … Continue Reading →
Atlanta – Purpose Built Communities is proud to announce that Kansas City’s Urban Neighborhood Initiative (UNI) is now its 15th Network Member and its first in the state of Missouri. The UNI, one of the Kansas City, MO Chamber of Commerce’s “Big 5 Ideas” founded in 2011, is the community quarterback nonprofit organization established to … Continue Reading →
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 Built Communities Model. It features detailed and sometimes intimate recollections from some of the key people involved in starting what would become … Continue Reading →
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 inequality in the United States and what poverty looks like across the country. One in five US adults now lives in households either in poverty or … Continue Reading →
Investing in What Works recently published a post by Purpose Built Communities president Carol Naughton on its Ideas Blog about the Community Quarterback concept and its importance in the Purpose Built Model. Below is an excerpt: When we started Purpose Built Communities in 2009, our mission was to help transform struggling neighborhoods into places that … Continue Reading →
