From Campus to Community: Marygrove Conservancy Imagines What’s Possible In 2025, the Marygrove Conservancy shifted its focus from simply introducing itself to the neighborhood to co-creating a future. The organization’s community engagement evolved from information-sharing to deep, collaborative dreaming about the campus and the surrounding Fitzgerald neighborhood’s potential. “Over the last few years, the once … Continued
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HBCU Brilliance Initiative
How HBCUs Are Co-Creating a New Model for Capital and Capacity In 2025, the HBCU Brilliance Initiative launched a transformational inaugural cohort of 11 institutions—aligning flexible capital, tailored technical assistance and peer-to-peer learning to address the systemic undercapitalization HBCUs have long faced. By engaging institutions as co-creators rather than beneficiaries, the Initiative is building a … Continued
Memphis Medical District Collaborative
Building Pathways to Prosperity in a Historic Neighborhood For those who steward the development of the Memphis Medical District, the headwinds of 2025 brought a tighter credit market that squeezed emerging developers. Hospital workforce shortages deepened. And in the surrounding neighborhoods where decades of depopulation and disinvestment had already taken their toll, poverty persisted. It … Continued