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Neighborhoods and Education Reform – Purpose Built Communities in the Huffington Post

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…

Community Health & Wellness, Cradle-to-College Education, Mixed-Income Housing, Placed-Based Field Leadership|February 27, 2017

10 Years After Katrina, a New Kind of Leadership Emerges in New Orleans

By Shirley Franklin, Former Mayor of Atlanta, Former Executive Board Chair of Purpose Built Communities Originally published in the Huffington Post In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, three New Orleans businessmen and civic leaders, Gerry Barousse, Mike…

Cradle-to-College Education, Mixed-Income Housing, New Orleans / Bayou District Foundation, Partnerships|August 24, 2015

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