Purpose Built Communities Third Annual Network Member Conference
October 3 - October 5, Atlanta, GA
On the Agenda:
- A Tour of our flagship East Lake community
- Financing Mixed-Income Housing
- Cradle-to-College Education: Early Learning, The Highest Return on Investment
- Charter Schools & Community Facilities: Leveraging the Resources
- Establishing Urban Grocery Stores and Implementing Urban Gardens and Agriculture
- Changing the Paradigm: Lessons Learned from Atlanta's Public Housing Transformation
- New book, Investing in What Works for America's Communities: Essays on People, Place and Purpose, with Editor Nancy O. Andrews and contributor Shirley Franklin, Purpose Built Chair & CEO
Speakers include:
Erskine Bowles, Co-Chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform
Tom Cousins, Co-Founder, Purpose Built Communities
Julian H. Robertson, Jr., Co-Founder, Purpose Built Communities
Roy Barnes, former Governor of Georgia
Shirley Franklin, Chair of the Board & CEO, Purpose Built Communities
Bernice A. King, CEO, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Mike Feinberg, Co-Founder, KIPP; Superintendent, KIPP Houston
Luke Tate, Senior Policy Advisor, White House Domestic Policy Council
Mindy Turbov, Director, Choice Neighborhoods Program, HUD
MEDIA BRIEFING: Thursday, October 4, 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Creating a National Movement to Overcome Concentrated Poverty:
Purpose Built takes Atlanta community transformation model nationwide
with:
Shirley Franklin, Chair & CEO, Purpose Built Communities
Greg Giornelli, Chair & COO, Purpose Built Communities
Community leaders and Network Members from New Orleans, Indianapolis, Spartanburg, Birmingham & Omaha
FOR MEDIA CREDENTIALS, email your name, affiliation and phone number to tstovall@purposebuiltcommunities.org
Purpose Built Communities is an Atlanta-based consulting firm formed in 2009 that helps local leaders plan, implement and sustain neighborhood revitalizations using our framework based on the East Lake community in Atlanta.
We connect communities implementing this work through the Purpose Built Communities Network. Those organizations we support directly are called Network Members. Our services are provided at no cost.
Our intent is to foster a network of up to 25 large-scale comprehensive redevelopment initiatives across the US by 2015, based on the Purpose Built Framework. This network will encompass more than 20,000 mixed-income housing units and high-performing schools for approximately 15,000 students.
Purpose Built has partnered with non-profit organizations to lead comprehensive redevelopment initiatives in 8 communities: Atlanta, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Birmingham, Rome, Clarkston, Spartanburg and Omaha. We have initiated exploratory projects in 20 additional communities.
Contact: TaRessa Stovall 609.304.3481
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Sept. 27, 2012/
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