About Purpose Built Communities

Purpose Built Communities® (“Purpose Built”) is an incubator, convener, and catalyst for social change at the neighborhood level. Purpose Built is a philanthropically funded nonprofit organization that partners with local leaders, its Network Members to design, direct, and accelerate neighborhood transformation initiatives across the United States so residents can experience greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility.  

Purpose Built provides pro-bono guidance, coaching, and support to these local leaders, their staff, and stakeholders in implementing and growing a holistic model of revitalization in their neighborhoods. Together with Purpose Built’s Network Members and strategic partners, Purpose Built believes every neighborhood should have affordable, high-quality mixed-income housing, excellent schools that keep student success in life and in the classroom central, inclusive spaces that nurture and enrich residents’ physical and mental health and foster a sense of belonging, and a thriving commercial core that keeps the neighborhood economically vibrant. The throughline is uplifting the legacy and supporting the vision of the people who have long called that neighborhood home. 

Purpose Built supports 60 neighborhoods, across 24 states, providing Network Members with pro-bono services, including technical assistance, a robust Community of Practice, policy support, fundraising, and more. As Purpose Built continues to evolve its Model and support structures, it focuses on amplifying its value proposition, telling a collective story of Network impact, and establishing its leadership of place-based work.  

Purpose Built Communities’ Core Values:  

• Possibility: Our purpose is proving the possible, not settling for the probable.  

• Impact: We take action and build bridges to create lasting impact.  

• Community: We cultivate connected, mutually contributing communities.  

To learn more about Purpose Built Communities, visit: www.purposebuiltcommunities.org. 

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