Initiatives

Mixed-Income Housing

Mixed-income housing helps attract more demographic and socio-economic diversity to a neighborhood. This is important because it can build the social capital necessary to improve economic mobility for lower-income residents and attract critical investments to the neighborhood such as new businesses, sources of fresh food, banks, and other amenities that are taken for granted in affluent neighborhoods.

Cradle-to-Career Education

Countless studies link early quality educational opportunities with long-term social development, academic proficiency, employment opportunities, and overall health outcomes. An effective educational pipeline that starts in early childhood and continues through college is imperative for successful community revitalization.

Community Wellness

Healthy neighborhoods must include a community-specific mix of facilities, programs and services that represent the vision, needs and priorities of residents, as well as the history and character of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood Leadership

A single-purpose, local non-profit lead organization is the most critical component of a successful revitalization initiative. This group engages personally with residents to be understanding and responsive to their needs and concerns, while also building effective partnerships with public and private stakeholders and investors that can help deliver the vision.

We use a proven model for holistic change and Empowering Community.

Initiatives are based on a people-first model that embraces the unique character and history of the neighborhood. Our work emphasizes empowerment, affordability, and equitable access to goods and services.

Mixed-Income Housing

Phase I of Columbia at Renaissance offers affordable and workforce multi-family housing units for up to 140 families;
Phase II of Columbia at Renaissance offers 120 affordable senior apartments for residents 55 and older.
New programs and development will reduce transiency and result in fewer vacant lots and dilapidated structures. When approved, Phase III of Columbia at Renaissance will provide additional housing for up to 100 more families. Proposed plans for the 27-arce southern sector include single family homes and townhomes all for sale.

Cradle-to-Career Education

Uplift Mighty is a free, public, college-preparatory charter school serving approximately 1,300 students in grades K-12.
The Leadership Academy at Mitchell Boulevard Elementary serves grades Pre-K – 5th.
Texas Wesleyan University is nearby and provides excellent educational and enrichment options for the community.
William M. McDonald YMCA Summer Camp is a program based on academic, achievement and sense of belonging l add Child Care Associates is Early Learning provider, state of the art, holistic early childhood education center.

Community Wellness

The William McDonald YMCA is a newly constructed 35,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility with a community-accessible pool, pre-school, full gymnasium with a walking track, and wellness services.
ACH Child and Family Services is headquartered at Renaissance and offers a range of services.
Cook Children’s has opened a community health clinic that provides both quality pediatric and dental care, with extended hours available to 10:00 pm.

Happy Park improvements includes a playground, flex play learn, sidewalk additions, landscape improvements and pedestrian crossings.

Neighborhood Leadership and Development

We work closely with residents and small business owners, serving as an equity champion and advocate. We have many partners to help us get there, and we are indebted to them for their tremendous support.

One driver of neighborhood success is economic development. The Shoppes at Renaissance Square, offering over 500,000 square feet of retail, grocery, and dining, serves as “a key catalyst for economic development in the region.” Additional employment opportunities and retail options are now available in an area that was once a food desert, helping advance and build upon efforts promoted by organizations like Southeast Fort Worth, Inc.

Our generation is faced with gross economic inequities, poverty, ignorance, poor educational attainment, poor health, any one of those can completely side rail children's lives. We are creating the dream community in what used to be 200 acres of abandoned land.

Rev Carl PointerBoard Member, Emeritus