🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Great to be in Chicago this week with organizers from across Metro IAF for a few days of learning & reflecting. We also got a chance today to visit the National Public Housing Museum together.

Yesterday, we celebrated the Rev Calvin Keene, pastor of Memorial Baptist and one of the founders of ReBUILD Metro, as ReBUILD renamed a conference room in his honor. His leadership in E Baltimore helped make our current work possible. Thank you Cory McCray for joining us!

We had our third training session for BUILD leaders last night! Great energy evaluating our June 8th action and preparing for next steps in our local institutions. Big thank you to the St Peter Claver Campus of St Bernardine Church for hosting all three session!

Join us tomorrow in Franklin Square with the Franklin Square Community Assoc. Bon Secours Greater Harvest Baptist Church Baltimore and more! Help us transform a green space and build community.

What can a group of committed people do in an hour and a half? Residents and allies can create a usable green space for residents in Franklin Square. Block by block, we can transform our communities together. Thank you FSCA, Bon Secours, Greater Harvest Baptist Church Baltimore, FSOutreach & more. Let’s build!

Here’s some before & after photos. Over the last few weeks we’ve gotten some of the illegally parked cars out. Today got the park much closer to where it needs to be!

ICYMI Rev Hopkins from BUILD’s strategy team & Cory McCray spoke to Midday with Tom Hall on Friday about “An ambitious plan aims to fix up thousands of Baltimore's vacant homes wypr.org/show/midday/20…

Thanks to Midday with Tom Hall for profiling Turnaround Tuesday today on its program! In case you missed it, you can check out the conversation between Tom Hall and Melvin Wilson here: wypr.org/show/midday/20…

“As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped,” via Maya King The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyr…

Coverage of our sister organizations in NYC today in the The New York Times on the eve of the primary there.

Thank you to the ~35 leaders who attended our grassroots fundraising training this week at St Matthew’s New Life UMC! Organizing our own money is critical to BUILD’s independence & longevity. If you’d like to invest in our work today, visit buildiaf.org/donate

Great work by our sister organization in North Carolina!

Standing room only at BNIA-JFI — both overall & at the session on vacant housing. Rev George Hopkins is leading this panel with neighborhood leaders from Re-Build Johnston Square & Franklin Square Community Association, as well as from ReBuild Metro Homes, Bon Secours, & Maryland Dept of Housing & Community Development.

In Rem 2.0 would be a significant step forward in the work to end the vacant and abandoned housing crisis Baltimore. Here's an article with some of the details. CC Odette Ramos John Bullock Zeke Cohen ParisgrayD8 James Torrence baltimoresun.com/2025/07/21/bal…

Powerful & productive BUILD criminal justice leadership team meeting this evening — preparing for our work this fall.

Thanks to the faith & community leaders who walked this afternoon with Councilman Mark Conway & Baltimore Police in Northeast Baltimore around Chinquapin Run Park about safety & other issues identified. Huge thanks to leaders from GOCA, NECO, Northside Baptist, Faith Pres., & residents!