To organize, educate, and activate residents of Southeast Greensboro to build community power, develop leadership, reclaim community assets, and create a hyperlocal economy owned and driven by the people who live there.
Our focus is Southeast Greensboro — census tracts 112–114 and the surrounding corridors, among the most historically divested communities in the city and county.
The Foundation builds the people, the relationships, and the demand. Black Wall Street LLC executes the real estate, development, and ventures. Together, they restore what was taken.
Resident organizing, leadership development, education, advocacy, and asset stewardship — building the power and the people.
Acquisition, rehabilitation, homeownership, and commercial ventures — turning organized demand into bricks, jobs, and ownership.
A coalition of 8 contiguous neighborhood associations in Southeast Greensboro, organized to advocate collectively and act with coordinated power.
Isolated associations have limited leverage. Eight contiguous neighborhoods represent concentrated power that cannot be dismissed.
Cohort-based training, civic and advocacy skills, budget and policy literacy, and direct lines into planning and decision-making.
Structural-history curriculum, the REI Groundwater framework at the neighborhood level, know-your-rights, and community-facing data.
Door-to-door outreach, block-level organizing, town halls, listening sessions, and resident feedback loops into real decisions.
Mapping community assets, Community Land Trust development for permanent affordability, and stewardship with BWSLLC.
Community-owned businesses — not charity — and a circular economy where dollars are earned, spent, and reinvested locally.
An upscale, community-owned laundromat and coffee bar — not a bare-bones utility, but a third place: a gathering space that is also an economic engine.
Laundromats are recession-resistant and high-utilization; coffee bars create daily foot traffic and identity. Community ownership means profits return to residents, not outside investors.
Turn through the complete organizational outline — identity, the council, the five pillars, the flagship model, funding, and our theory of change.
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