The BUILD strategy team voted unanimously to call for Commissioner Batts’ resignation, an action not taken lightly. Following the uprising, BUILD met with and made requests a number of times of the police commissioner. Our biggest request was for a […]
Join us July 23 at 6:30pm at St. Matthews Church, 5430 Loch Raven Blvd. Participate in: Listening – Crafting Agenda for 2016 City Elections – Expanding Jobs Opportunities – Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Training. Let us know at buildiaf@verizon.net […]
BUILD One Baltimore – making two cities one – is the theme of BUILD’s latest campaign to craft an agenda for the 2016 Mayoral and Municipal elections and to increase employment among city residents in distressed neighborhoods. Read all about […]
“Baltimore [is] a tale of two cities: A downtown that has been completely redeveloped and uptown communities that have been neglected for years. That’s what you’re seeing right now, a spillover of really 40 years of benign neglect; of young people who […]
Please join us on the new date for the BUILD One Baltimore Action: Date: Monday June 22nd Time: 6:30 pm Gathering Time Place: St. Peter Claver Catholic Church 1526 N. Fremont Avenue Stand with us to aim the city towards […]
Revs Calvin Keene and Marshall Prentice say all corporations cannot be painted with a broad brush, praise Hopkins for stepping up after unrest. Baltimore Sun Op Ed […]
Get the details of the proposed $35 million state funding cut to Baltimore City Schools with the BUILD 2015 Education Cuts Presentation, by Rev. Andrew Foster Connors. […]
BUILD Leaders Name the Deep Wounds that Cuts to City Schools Would Cause By BUILD, Thursday February 19, 2015 When Jessica Ockimey, a single mother of 3 students in Baltimore City, learned about the governor’s proposed cuts to Baltimore Ciy […]
Feb 19, 2014 10:17pm by Colin Campbell More than 100 of Baltimore’s students, parents, teachers and community members on Thursday protested Gov. Larry Hogan’s $35 million in proposed budget cuts to city schools. Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) co-chairman, […]
by Andrew Foster Connors, Glenna Huber, and Douglas Miles excerpt: “So let’s be clear: the city’s waterfront properties and growing tax assessable base from downtown development do result in cuts to city school funding. If our city government didn’t give away […]