Build from Within Alliance UNITED TO STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOODS DISRUPT CONCENTRATED POVERTY Concentrated poverty requires concentrated opportunity The Build from Within Alliance is a national network of community development organizations supporting local entrepreneurship in neighborhoods across the country. We work in communities that have experienced both visible and invisible signs of systemic disinvestment resulting from centuries of racist practices and policies. Build from Within Alliance members work to reversethis systemic disinvestment by expanding the community resources and opportunities required to support lowincome resident entrepreneurs as drivers of economic and social change. Books BagelS 16 members 50 neighborhoods One Model local entrepreneurship is the key to equitable Community development Launched in 1993 Mihailo Temali founded The Neighborhood Development Center a nonprofit addressing St.