Programs of Service
How I Work With Cities, CDFIs & Foundations
I help municipalities, CDFIs, and foundations turn good intentions into executable systems — aligning policy, capital, and community voice. Every engagement starts with one goal: build structures that communities can own, sustain, and benefit from. My advisory work is tailored to each client, but typically includes:
Grant & Compliance Navigation
Helping municipalities and nonprofits align their reporting, audit, and implementation strategies for accountability and impact.
CRA-Aligned Capital Structuring
Designing investment pathways that satisfy CRA requirements while building local wealth.
Stakeholder Alignment & Coalition Building
Bringing public, private, and community actors together around a unified plan for equitable growth.
Policy Strategy & Systems Design
Advising on public-private partnerships, governance frameworks, and long-term housing plans.
Whether you're a housing director facing a compliance audit, a foundation rethinking your capital strategy, or a CDFI seeking actual community impact, I help you move from program management to systems change.
Building the Conditions for Belonging and Ownership
What Matters to Me — Helping Communities Move From Occupants to Owners.
My work, and the Unum Collective Fellowship Program, focuses on the structures that determine who gets to stay, who gets to build, and who gets to own.
Housing —Designing community-led ownership models that keep residents rooted and assets local.
Capital Access —Deploying CRA-aligned, non-extractive capital for long-term community wealth.
Governance & Capacity —Training local leaders to manage land, funds, and partnerships sustainably.
Regional Focus: The U.S. South —Because the South holds both the deepest displacement risk and the most significant potential for collective power-building.
Across the U.S. South, I partner with cities, CDFIs, and community organizations to transform displacement risk into community power — through ownership models that are permanent, equitable, and self-governed.
The mission is simple: move families from surviving within systems to shaping them.
Community Power, In Practice
Southwest Florida: A Living Laboratory for Ownership
Partnering with Catalyst Community Capital (a CDFI) and local public CRA programs, we secured and transitioned a 5-unit residential property into community hands.
22 people housed across 8 households within 12 months
Governance framework established for long-term community ownership
Public-private partnership model replicable across other municipalities
Through Affordable Holdings and SHELTA, we proved that community-led housing isn’t theory — it’s achievable.
This is what it looks like when policy, capital, and community alignment work together — not as a program, but as a system.
Systems-Change Strategist & Social Entrepreneur
Let's Work Together: Available for Collaboration, Advisory, and Systems Design, and Program Development
I’ve operated inside the systems that shape our communities — police departments, municipal budgets, and foundation boardrooms — and I’ve built outside them, founding ventures that prove new models of equity are possible.
Today, I work with partners across sectors who are ready to move beyond programs and toward systems that sustain justice.
Let’s design something that lasts.
Let’s Build What’s Next, Together @antoinebuilds™
Get in Touch
Whether you’re a city leader, CDFI partner, foundation, or community organization — let’s explore how we can design systems that create lasting impact. I’m currently available for advisory projects, collaborations, and speaking engagements.
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