A Neighborhood Model for People and Place

We have learned, both from research and in practice, is that to ensure the health and prosperity of neighborhoods and the people who live there, we must strategically prioritize increased upward mobility, improved health outcomes, and greater racial equity. The Purpose Built model for impact provides the roadmap to get there.

Mixed-Income Housing

The strategy begins by enhancing a community’s residential foundation through safe, high-quality housing for all income levels, ensuring a significant portion is dedicated to long-term, permanent affordability to reduce displacement in the neighborhood.

Cradle-to-College Education

Education, beginning at birth, is vital for healthy child development. High-quality, community-serving schools within a comprehensive early learning to grade 12 pathway foster children’s development and prepare them for college or their chosen post-graduate path.

Community Health & Wellness

Thriving neighborhoods prioritize wellness through medical care, mental health support, healthy food access, community spaces, arts, culture, and green areas. Tailored facilities and programs promote belonging, honor history, encourage healthy lifestyles, create jobs, and enhance safety for overall well-being.

Economic Vitality

A strong commercial core fosters neighborhood prosperity and residents’ economic advancement, offering opportunities for meaningful work and wealth building. A dual-pronged strategy supporting opportunities across income levels ensures abundant local resources and participation in a thriving economy.

We create culturally rich, generationally inclusive, and economically diverse neighborhoods for children and families where:

  • Social connections across socioeconomic and racial demographics are commonplace.
  • Legacy residents feel valued and are part of the fabric of the growing community with newer residents.
  • The built environment and investments in physical infrastructure support the ability of the community to thrive.
  • All residents feel welcomed, valued, and integral to the composition of their neighborhood.
Community Quarterback

The Community Quarterback organization effectively executes this model, collaborating with neighborhood residents and partners to seamlessly integrate all the vital components that contribute to neighborhood prosperity and growth.

We create culturally rich, generationally inclusive, and economically diverse neighborhoods for children and families where social connections across socioeconomic and racial demographics are commonplace; legacy residents feel valued and are part of the fabric of the growing community with newer residents; the built environment and investments in physical infrastructure support the ability for the community to thrive; all residents feel welcomed, valued, and integral to the composition of their neighborhood.

Mixed-Income Housing

The strategy begins by enhancing a community’s residential foundation through safe, high-quality housing for all income levels, ensuring a significant portion is dedicated to long-term, permanent affordability to reduce displacement in the neighborhood.

Community Health & Wellness

Thriving neighborhoods prioritize wellness through medical care, mental health support, healthy food access, community spaces, arts, culture, and green areas. Tailored facilities and programs promote belonging, honor history, encourage healthy lifestyles, create jobs, and enhance safety for overall well-being.

Defined Neighborhood

Neighborhoods are the unit of change that can have the greatest impact on people’s lives, changing life trajectories for the lowest-income residents, creating greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility.

Cradle-to-College Education

Education, beginning at birth, is vital for healthy child development. High-quality, community-serving schools within a comprehensive early learning to grade 12 pathway foster children’s development and prepare them for college or their chosen post-graduate path.

Economic Vitality

A strong commercial core fosters neighborhood prosperity and residents’ economic advancement, offering opportunities for meaningful work and wealth building. A dual-pronged strategy supporting opportunities across income levels ensures abundant local resources and participation in a thriving economy.

Community Quarterback

The Community Quarterback organization effectively executes this model, collaborating with neighborhood residents and partners to seamlessly integrate all the vital components that contribute to neighborhood prosperity and growth.

We believe every neighborhood can become a pathway to prosperity for the people who live there.

Our Theory of Impact
Purpose Built Communities

We are excited to reveal our new brand identity! Our new brand is the next chapter in a story about increasing economic mobility, better health outcomes, and racial equity by harnessing neighborhoods as powerful engines of change.

In our new logo, you see the blocks of a city grid or an interwoven tapestry of bold and vivid colors. It symbolizes both where we work and how we work. Purpose Built supports over 70 neighborhoods—including more than 25 Network Members—creating an interconnected collective of leaders strengthening neighborhoods so everyone can thrive.

This new brand identity is more than a logo. It is a framework for telling the Purpose Built Communities story and an invitation to join our mission of creating pathways to prosperity for residents in the places they call home.