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Jul 31
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NeighborWorks America Honors Resident Leaders with Prestigious Award

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Written by NeighborWorks America NeighborWorks America Honors Resident Leaders with Prestigious Award The Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership recognizes people who bring neighbors together for improvements, change Washington, D.C. — NeighborWorks® America honored five resident leaders with its 2025 Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership. The honorees, who come from across the country, inspire their neighbors and lead their communities in promoting improvements and change, in preserving local culture, and in ensuring their communities are safe and healthy places to call home. The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Oct. 31 during NeighborWorks America’s Community Leadership Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota….

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Jul 31
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Summer Construction Update

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As summer temperatures continue to rise, One Neighborhood Builders remains hard at work developing new affordable housing across Rhode Island! We are excited to provide a summer construction update on the progress we've made at The Avenue and Broad Street Homes!  The Avenue   Located in Providence, The Avenue combines the re-syndication of 46 affordable apartments in the Elmwood neighborhood, referred to as Elmwood Neighborhood Revitalization II (ENR II), with the construction of 39 new affordable apartments on Atwells Avenue, known as The Avenue.   ENR II encompasses 46 apartments scattered throughout 13 buildings. All 46 units underwent significant renovations...
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Jul 24
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Providence Journal: How the central Providence community made public bathrooms in their parks a priority

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When children play at their local parks, they are often provided with an abundance of free green space, playground equipment, ballfields and basketball courts, yet no place to go to the bathroom.

In response to community feedback, the Providence Parks Department and One Neighborhood Builders began adding these amenities with the opening of sustainable public bathrooms in Merino Park on July 17.

One Neighborhood Builders’ Central Providence Unidos launched a participatory budgeting initiative in 2022 where central Providence residents voted on the installation of public restrooms in their parks.

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Jul 17
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Public Restrooms Open at Providence’s Merino Park Thanks to Participatory Budgeting Initiative Led by One Neighborhood Builders

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2025 Providence, RI—One Neighborhood Builders (ONB), one of the state’s leading nonprofit affordable housing developers and community development corporations, in partnership with the City of Providence Parks Department, held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of public restrooms in the city’s Merino Park. The installation of public restrooms at the park is a direct response to a community identified need during the Nine Neighborhood Fund participatory budgeting initiative led by ONB’s Central Providence Unidos, a Health Equity Zone and place-based initiative focused on increasing economic mobility and health equity in the nine neighborhoods…

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Jun 20
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Residences at Riverside Square Recognized with a Smart Growth Award

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One Neighborhood Builder’s  Residences at Riverside Square has been awarded a Smart Growth Award by Grow Smart RI, an organization committed to leading and engaging Rhode Islanders in advancing neighborhood revitalization, environmental stewardship, and economic opportunity. Each year, the Smart Growth Awards recognize developments, individuals, and policies that best address community revitalization, access to affordable housing, improved public health, greener building practices, and advancement of social, racial, and economic justice.

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Jun 13
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Celebrating NeighborWorks Week: Creating Homes, Building America Through Equitable Community Development

By Featured - Our Stories & Voices, Our Stories & Voices

This NeighborWorks week, we’re celebrating the collective impact of NeighborWorks America’s member organizations and our shared commitment to building strong, vibrant communities. As a proud member of the NeighborWorks network, One Neighborhood Builders is thrilled to embrace this year’s theme of Creating Homes, Building America. To us, this theme is about more than just increasing access to housing in our communities. It’s about strengthening neighborhoods through thoughtful investments rooted in equity and bolstering economic resilience. At One Neighborhood Builders, we embody this theme through our work every day. From pre-development to completion, our housing developments reflect our commitment to the…

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