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BUILD is an organization committed to supporting development as a means of creating economic opportunities to promote financial self-sufficiency and prosperity in socio-economically depressed communities. Our community is filled with diversity, talent, intelligence and beauty, however our vibrancy is shrouded by stark statistical realities. Nearly 50% of Black men are unemployed, over 60% of our children are failing to meet educational standards, there are more Black men in prison than in college and the ranks of those ensnared in the economic underclass continue to swell.
BUILD recognizes that government and private development projects must work with local communities to ensure that traditionally marginalized and by-passed residents who are most in need of economic opportunities have equitable access to entrepreneurial, employment and other opportunities generated by those projects. Moreover, BUILD endeavors to secure community benefits that develops the infrastructural capacity of the community to sustain development projects.
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