Across the country Talented entrepreneurs are ready
to invest in their communities
The Build from Within is an alliance of community development organizations that share a commitment to supporting neighborhood-based, low-income entrepreneurs in their respective communities. Members are working locally to reverse the effects of systematic disinvestment in some of America’s most distressed neighborhoods.
As an alliance, we work together to learn, elevate, and scale a model that improves community wellbeing by encouraging resident entrepreneurship. We work primarily in low-income neighborhoods of color that have long suffered intentional and racist disinvestment.
The goals and activities of the alliance are guided by its invited members. Members are nonprofit organizations that have established roots, trust, and connection with their respective communities. They bring their specific knowledge of ethical neighborhood revitalization to the alliance and help to inform our work and scale our model.
Many neighborhoods | One Vision
Members work in low-income neighborhoods that have experienced decades of systemic and racist disinvestment.
Members support local entrepreneurs in starting, growing, and sustaining their businesses.
Members revitalize communities and spaces by growing the number of locally owned small businesses in the community.
Members fill vacant or abandoned commercial corridors and storefronts with locally owned businesses to bring social and economic vibrancy to communities.
