From High School to Home Ownership

Would you like to earn money and career skills while also gaining a world-class education? Build UP is looking for the next generation of leaders to commit to a program that builds communities and individual wealth. Fill out the form below to learn more about enrolling.

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Build UP gives me a lot of hope for the future because I am getting rid of the blight in my neighborhood. I see it as an opportunity. "
KHRISTIAN BILLINGLSEY
BUILD UP ENSLEY, FOUNDING COHORT 

Build UP included in $10MM Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Challenge.
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Education, Stabilization, REVITALIZATION​

Build UP is the nation’s first and only early-college workforce development model that provides low-income youth with career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships with industry-aligned secondary and postsecondary academic coursework, leading them to become educated, credentialed, and empowered civic leaders, professionals, homeowners and landlords.

Students gain the necessary tools to lead successful lives, such as job-ready skills, financial literacy, leadership training, a high school diploma and an             
                                     associates degree.

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Families earn access to own affordable, stable housing units they can take pride in and even rent to earn passive income while building equity
                                     and wealth.

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Stable careers and upward economic mobility empower students and their families to stay home in order to lead long-term community
                                     revitalization.

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​OUR VISION

To empower and equip youth and communities to determine their own future.

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A Model that Combats Generational Poverty

As part of Build UP's program, participants ​will acquire a career-focused education,

​​​gain knowledge and skills in a high-demand professional field,

and ​become owners of homes and rental properties to build wealth and earn passive income.

​This creates an economic and social safety net resulting in the
​longer-term revitalization of their communities.

School Sites: Build UP- Ensley & Build UP- Titusville

Build UP- Ensley is our flagship site (August 12, 2018), on which we focus all initial growth and improvement efforts. Build UP- Ensley currently has a team of over 15 full-time, part-time, and contracted staff members leading over 70 youth towards successful futures that they determine. Build UP- Titusville is our first expansion site, allowing us to scale the model to another high-need Birmingham community.

Build UP's unique approach is an anti-gentrification revitalization model that empowers long-term growth driven by young leaders (Build UP graduates) from within the community, to Build UP themselves, their family, and their neighbors.

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Connect With Us

Address:
2301 Avenue E
Birmingham, AL 35218

Phone:
205-847-4086 or 504-330-6198 (Mark's Cell)

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Why Ensley?

​This once-flourishing and lively community is now in need of revitalization.

Support Us

​Contribute to Build UP and help us enable youth, families and communities to lift themselves out of poverty.

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