16 members | 50 neighborhoods | One Model

Across the country Talented entrepreneurs are ready to invest in their communities

The Build from Within Alliance is a collaboration of community development organizations with a shared commitment to neighborhood-based, low-income, entrepreneur development in our respective communities.

We work together to learn, improve, 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, operating principles, 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.

Anchorage • Detroit • Denver • Fayetteville • Houston • Miami | Fort Pierce • New Orleans • Philadelphia • St. Cloud | Brainerd | Hinkley | Onamia • St. Paul | Minneapolis • Syracuse • Wilmington | Claymont | Dover | Georgetown

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.