Fresh Fridays

Fresh Fridays is a monthly webinar series hosted by One Neighborhood Builders, bringing together practitioners, community members, and policymakers to explore and discuss key topics in community development. Each session features expert panelists offering insights and solutions to help drive positive change.

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Fresh Fridays: Examining Commercial & Residential Tenant Unions

This month’s Fresh Fridays featured a lively conversation that was focused on the people and organizations who are working on commercial and residential tenant organizing in Rhode Island. One Neighborhood Builders was joined by Mel Potter, Emily Harrington, and Shana Crandell, and facilitated a discussion that level-set the conversation with an overview of what a tenant union is, highlighted the work of several of Rhode Island’s commercial and residential tenant unions, and discussed the future of this organizing work.  
oneneighborhoodbuilders
April 18, 2025
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Fresh Fridays: A Conversation with Cortney Nicolato and Peter Chapman

This month’s Fresh Fridays featured an insightful conversation on the future of community development, economic mobility, and affordable housing in Rhode Island amid a shifting federal landscape. In a one-on-one conversation, United Way of Rhode Island President & CEO, Cortney Nicolato, interviewed One Neighborhood Builders’ new President & CEO, Peter Chapman, to discuss the key issues shaping their organization’s work.
oneneighborhoodbuilders
March 26, 2025
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Fresh Fridays: Home Repair Programs

This month’s Fresh Fridays webinar focused on the importance and challenges of home repair programs. The discussion centered around maintaining the affordability and safety of homes, particularly for low-income homeowners, and how these repair programs fit into broader housing strategies.
oneneighborhoodbuilders
February 20, 2025
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Fresh Fridays: Community Wealth Building

This month, Fresh Fridays considered how shared ownership of resources help make local communities more economically equitable. Community wealth building is a model for communities to directly own and control their resources. Recognizing that many common economic development models do not work for many communities, community wealth building incorporates worker cooperatives, community land trusts, housing cooperatives, public banking, and other tools to strengthen local economies. 
oneneighborhoodbuilders
December 18, 2024
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Fresh Fridays: Adaptive Reuse and Affordable Housing Development

This month’s Fresh Friday featured a group of panelists discussing the important topic of adaptive reuse and affordable housing development. Throughout New England and the US, there are publicly- and privately-owned buildings that no longer serve their original use – mills, churches, school buildings, and much more. As communities work to address the housing crisis, they are increasingly looking to these existing assets as potential affordable housing.  
oneneighborhoodbuilders
November 27, 2024