Community Investment
Small-business financing for Northside residents — so the investment coming to these blocks is owned by the people who live on them.
This initiative is about one question: how does a resident of these seven neighborhoods get the financing to open or grow a business here? We are working out the answer — the lenders, the loan products, the credit pathways, and the local partnerships that put small-business capital within reach of the people who already call the Northside home — so that the investment arriving around these blocks becomes investment owned by the community itself. Details to come as this work takes shape.
“Cast down your bucket where you are” — cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.Booker T. Washington, Atlanta, 1895
New homes on the vacant lots between the homes that never left — small buildings, built steadily, by builders from these blocks — so the neighborhood fills back in without being torn down and started over.
Learn MoreHealth-and-safety repairs — roofing, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, structural — that keep a legacy homeowner in the house they already own, instead of losing it one leak at a time.
Learn MoreA registered apprenticeship building electricians and mechanical tradespeople from these blocks — paid on-the-job training instead of tuition debt, and a career at the end of it.
Learn MoreThe everyday gathering places between home and work — storefronts, fellowship halls, corner groceries — restored across seven neighborhoods, anchored by the district at 12th Avenue North and Carraway Boulevard.
Learn MoreCome work a Saturday. Homeowner repair crews, vacant lot clean-ups, and tutoring all run on volunteer hours.
Volunteer TodayCongregations, businesses, and organizations carry this plan together. If yours wants a lane, there is one open.
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