On July 18, BUILD packed the Zion Lutheran Church to hear testimony from Tischler-Bise and Good Jobs Baltimore advocate Greg LeRoy. Attendees thundered their approval of BUILD’s demands for a city-wide community benefits agreement and for the City to conduct […]
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 BUILD held a press conference in front of UnderArmour Headquarters to call on CEO Kevin Plank to meet with BUILD to negotiate mandates that will ensure the Port Covington development will benefit the ENTIRE city. BUILD […]
Tuesday, June 21, the Mayor and the Baltimore Police Commissioner announced the padlocking of a business under the “public nuisance” statute. “The Baltimore City Police Department, local businesses and citizens citywide took action together to close down a notorious drug […]
BUILD and Child First Authority, together with the Baltimore City Council, won the restoration of $4.2 million in cuts to after school and community school programs. These cuts would have meant that programs begun after the unrest in April would […]
Hundreds of supporters of after school and community school programs gathered in front of City Hall to protest the $4.2 million in cuts to programs that keep children occupied and safe after school. Read more here: Sun report. […]
BUILD members attended an informational hearing about Tax Increment Financing, hosted on May 19 by Councilman Carl Stokes. Read coverage by the Afro here http://www.afro.com/tif-funding-debated-at-baltimore-city-council-meeting/ and Baltimore Brew here: http://bit.ly/1UiHRJd. […]
April 2016 Mayoral Primary GOTV BUILD Volunteers – 251 Doors knocked – at least 2,609 Calls made – 15,000 We couldn’t have done it without our volunteers. […]
Baltimore Sun article features Charlestown retirement community volunteers at the block party last weekend. “Residents were inspired at a meeting with [Elder] Harris, founder of Intersection of Change, a nonprofit for the people of Sandtown [and BUILD member organization], as […]
Yesterday, President Daniels, Baltimore Gas and Electric CEO Calvin Butler, and 25 corporations collectively pledged to help put Baltimore back to work in coordination with BUILD and Turnaround Tuesday —see Baltimore Sun Article. The press conference was held yesterday in East Baltimore […]
BUILD demonstrates power and commits to making Baltimore a City that Votes at Sundays’s Candidate Accountability Assembly action at Coppin State University. Candidates Dixon, Embry, Mosby, Pugh, Stokes & Warnock spoke to over 700 in attendance and pledged to add […]