On October 6, 2024, approximately 575 BUILD leaders attended the standing room only BUILD action at Macedonia Baptist Church continuing our march toward One Baltimore. Along with  MD Housing Secretary Jake Day, Mayor Brandon Scott, and Mark Anthony Thomas, CEO […]

Thanks to BUILD and Turnaround Tuesday’s hard work, as of October 1, 2024, parole fees in Maryland are no more. As part of that repeal, at BUILD’s action on October 6, Public Safety & Correctional Services Secretary Carolyn Scruggs, announced […]

On December 11, 2023, BUILD, the City, and GBC celebrated signing an agreement that creates a framework to address Baltimore’s housing crisis once and for all! More than 550 leaders packed into Greater Harvest  Baptist Church on a Monday night […]

More than 500 BUILD leaders attended an action with Mayor Brandon Scott and the Greater Baltimore Committee at Memorial Baptist Church on July 16, 2023, to push for an end to the vacancy and abandoned homes crisis in Baltimore once […]

Approximately 300 determined clergy and community leaders attended a press conference in front of Greater Harvest Baptist Church in southwest Baltimore on February 16th with Mayor Scott to show their support for BUILD’s plan to address vacant and abandoned homes […]

Thank you to the more than 1000 of you who gathered with BUILD and PLAN at Coppin State University on October 16, 2022, when we secured commitments from Governor-elect Wes Moore to work with us on our agenda to take action on […]

As a result of BUILD’s relationship with The Johns Hopkins University and strong member organizations Koinonia Baptist church, Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization, Mt Sinai Baptist Church, Zion Baptist Church, Rebuild Metro, and Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, BUILD […]

“The white officers’ knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes while he pleads for his mother evokes 400 years of kidnappings, lynchings, rapes, family separations, slavery and forced labor, share cropping, equity stripping, unjust imprisonment, medical experiments, job discrimination that denies the […]

BUILD turned out 110 of the 270 leaders from ACT (Anne Arundel Connecting Together), BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development) , and AIM (Action in Montgomery), united as Maryland IAF. We were not outside with protest signs, but inside making […]

BUILD turned out 436 people from most member institutions to an action on November 21 to demand that Mayor Young increase the school budget by $25-30M this year, $90M next year, and work with us towards the $330M needed to […]