S2 BONUS: The Myth of De Facto Segregation
It's been a convenient diversion from the truth that's been told since Reconstruction - that the segregation we've seen and continue to see...
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Too many Americans live in neighborhoods stuck in intergenerational poverty - but the American Dream is in the hearts of Americans in every zip code. Purpose Built Communities, a network of...
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Listen to This is Community, a Government & Organizations podcast by Purpose Built Communities. Stream 19 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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S2 Ep. 7: The Power of Philanthropy
Warren Buffett has been called a wizard, an oracle, a sage - a wise and prophetic investor who knows value when he sees it. In this last epi...
S2 Ep. 6: Leading with Equity
Building racial, social, and health equity in communities of concentrated poverty is not an unrealistic dream - it's happening in real-time...
S2 Ep. 5: Strength Through Diversity
There's an opportunity cost to separating and segregating people: we're not getting the best ideas, the creativity, the innovation out of di...
S2 Ep. 4: Locking Up Human Capital
More Americans are sent to jail than ever before in human history. Most of them are young, African American men living in neighborhoods of c...
S2 Ep. 3: Personal Relationship with Race
Institutional racism does not just impact people who are old enough to vote and have a job. It's a lifelong reality from birth to death, and...
S2 Ep. 2: Racism Exacts a Cost
Two weeks before the 2016 election, there was an immediacy and urgency when Dr. David Williams, professor of public health, African and Afri...
S2 Ep. 1: Streetlights
We are constantly and fundamentally surrounded by racism in how our systems and public institutions have been structured and operate that it...
S2 Trailer | Coming June 11
Too many communities are failing in America. Millions of people are trapped in poverty, fighting for their American Dream. And racism is at...
S1 Ep. 9: Full Circle
The final episode of Season One tells the story of Jamese Pinkston, who returned to the neighborhood in Charlotte where she grew up to help...
S1 Ep. 8: Walking with a Purpose
America's demographics will become majority-minority in the coming decades. One neighborhood in Houston shows how to successfully build vibr...
S1 Ep. 7: A Community of Choice
Gentrification is nothing new in America. Many who stand in its path feel helpless to fight back against it. But some communities are striki...
S1 Ep. 6: People. Place. Equity.
Equity has become a buzzword in America. Yet we're collectively falling short of the American ideal of how we should be revitalizing communi...
S1 Ep. 5: Think Big, Start Small
Transformational revitalization can come in many different shapes and sizes. Howard Kennedy Elementary in Omaha went from a dead-end to a sc...
S1 Ep. 4: You Can't Expect a School to Outperform its Neighborhood
Every child deserves to get a quality education that prepares them for the future. But every child comes from different circumstances. A pub...
S1 Ep. 3: I Walk Out My Door and I Feel It
How do you know if you're transforming a neighborhood out of intergenerational poverty - bringing vibrancy, energy, and life back to a commu...
S1 Ep. 2: It Takes a Village
To address the root of intergenerational poverty, you need more than some money and good intentions. A holistic model that looks at the whol...
S1 Ep. 1: A Tale of Two Cities
Bootstraps or downward escalators. No matter which analogy you prefer, the data are clear: the neighborhood where you grow up determines how...
S1 Trailer | Coming Oct. 23
Poverty is the neighbor of wealth in America's cities - but it doesn't have to be. This series will tell stories about interstates dividing...