About Us

The Empowered Block is an equity-driven, community-focused community development consulting firm. We provide our services to for-profit, non-profit, and public sector clients in affordable housing, economic development, community engagement, and program development/evaluation.

We pride ourselves on our community-centered approach. We believe that communities should be at the forefront of everything that happens in their community, especially community development initiatives. We make an effort to work collaboratively with our clients to curate an intensive community-centered process.

Equity is an integral and imperative aspect of our approach. We create equitable solutions to ensure that the community achieves equity in all community development projects.

We serve clients and work on projects nationwide.

We are a certified Minority-Business Enterprise (MBE) and certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE).

Our Clients

  • We work with financial institutions, including both traditional banks and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) on impact investments, strategic planning, and financial analyses.

  • We support philanthropic institutions with their impact investing strategies, portfolio management, and grantmaking.

  • We work with non-profit organizations on strategy, technical assistance, operations, and more.

  • We work with both for-profit and non-profit affordable housing developers to support their predevelopment processes.

  • We serve local, state, and federal government agencies with their complex needs.

Our Mission

Our mission is to drive investment and strengthen partnerships leading to transformative change in historically marginalized and underserved communities.

We accomplish this by providing community-centered consulting, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to agencies, lenders, community groups, and other institutions.

Our Vision

Our vision is to steward partnerships and direct investments that facilitate transformative, sustainable change in historically underserved and marginalized communities, bringing critical funding to develop infrastructure, affordable housing, economic empowerment, and social investments.

We are changing the status quo in community development by developing meaningful programs that are community-specific and community-informed.