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GREGORY HAIRSTON, SR. NAMED COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGMENT MANAGER
Gregory Hairston, Sr. has been named the Community Partnerships and Engagement Manager of Boston-Thurmond United (BTU), the Purpose Built community initiative in the Boston-Thurmond neighborhood that focuses on high-quality affordable housing, education, and community...
Safe Home Emergency Repair Program
BOSTON-THURMOND COMMUNITY NETWORK (BTCN)/ BOSTON-THURMOND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE (BTCER) SAFE HOME EMERGENCY REPAIR PROGRAM (Helping Homeowners with Emergency and Minor Repairs) In 2022, the Boston-Thurmond Community Engagement Roundtable initiated an owner...
“Neighborhood News”
The Boston-Thurmond Community Network is currently exploring an opportunity to receive three free lots from Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County. The lots are located on Row Street in the Boston-Thurmond Community. Six members of the Boston-Thurmond Community...
New Executive Director Named for Boston-Thurmond Community
Regina Ford Hall, a former program manager with the city of Winston-Salem, has been named executive director of the Boston-Thurmond Community Network, the sustaining arm of the Boston-Thurmond United community initiative. Hall is previously the reintegration and youth...
Yard of the Month project instills pride in Boston-Thurmond neighborhood
“Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?” Members of the Safety andBeautification committee of the Boston-Thurmond Community Engagement Roundtable are on amission to find out. They recently started a new project called the Yard of the Month to bring...
Poverty And Place: A Review of the Science and Research That Have Impacted Our Work
Purpose Built Communities was founded in 2009 with the mission of replicating the success of a place-based community transformation effort that began in the mid-1990s in the East Lake neighborhood of Atlanta. Tom Cousins, Julian Robertson and Warren Buffett founded...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
At the 10th Annual Conference of Purpose Built Communities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s President and CEO, Dr. Richard E. Besser, announced an investment of $6 million to advance the work of the Purpose Built Communities Network. Purpose Built Communities is...