Neighborhood Revitalization: A Real Solution to Overcoming Poverty
Purpose Built Chair and CEO Shirley Franklin on the power and potential of our holistic model.
Purpose Built Communities – Full Overview
urpose Built Communities is transforming lives through its model for holistic community revitalization. With this video, you can take a tour of some of the success stories in cities across America, and hear from the people who are turning dreams into reality.
Purpose Built Communities Overview
Purpose Built Communities is working to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. We do that by helping local leaders transform struggling neighborhoods, and bringing together the vital components necessary for holistic community revitalization.
Network Member: New Orleans / Bayou District
The Bayou District Foundation was formed with the goal of being an “instrument for change.” Determined to rebuild New Orleans and make it even better than pre-Katrina, the Bayou District Foundation is following the East Lake model as it brings a better way of life to its residents.
Network Member: Indianapolis / Alliance for Northeast Unification
The Meadows Community Foundation is dedicated to restoring a once proud Indianapolis community that had fallen into a desperate state following decades of decline. The Foundation has developed Avondale Meadows as a shining example of what is possible with the right strategic planning and partnerships.
Miracle At East Lake (CNBC Feature)
The successful redevelopment of Atlanta's East Lake community served as a blueprint for Purpose Built Community's approach to holistic community revitalization. This report on CNBC's "Business Nation" chronicles the East Lake renewal and the ongoing mission of Purpose Built Communities.
Netowrk Member: East Lake Foundation
The East Lake Foundation collaborates with public and private organizations support East Lake residents through high-quality mixed-income housing, cradle-to-college education and community wellness.
The Seeds of Success are Already Bearing Fruit
Tremendous progress is being made in each of our Network Member Communities. Based upon the Purpose Built model for holistic community revitalization, our Members are incorporating strategies for high-quality mixed-income housing, cradle-to-college education, and resources…
TEDxOmaha: Othello Meadows
Othello Meadows III received a standing ovation for his vision of holistic community revitalization. Meadows is Executive Director of Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp., a community revitalization and development organization. Backed by The Sherwood Foundation (Susie Buffett) and Warren Buffett, Meadows is developing an urban infill project in North Omaha.
Avondale Meadows’ $20 Million Health and Wellness Center Underway
Upon completion, Avondale Meadows Health & Wellness Center will include an 18,000-sq.-ft. health clinic operated by Health Net and a 32,000-sq.-ft. YMCA, and will be environmentally sustainable with an expected LEED Silver designation. The Center…
South Rome Early Learning and Adult Centers
A Memorandum of Understanding calls for the school system to enter into a five-year lease with the SRRC for three classrooms in the new Anna K. Davie building, which will be constructed on East Main…
Bernanke Backs Holistic Approach to Redevelopment
Bernanke held up the work of Purpose Built Communities, a non-profit started by local developer Tom Cousins in the East Lake neighborhood in Atlanta, as a model for future work. “Community development is a complicated…
