Blueprint Communities® Delaware, a program of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh and the University of Delaware Center for Community Research & Service, is an asset-based approach to community revitalization that incorporates community engagement and involvement in the planning process.
In December 2015, a group of Northeast Wilmington neighborhood residents, stakeholders, and interested parties gathered together with the desire to learn about the Blueprint Communities® program. These participants shared a common goal and desire: to see the Northeast community realize its true potential by addressing community issues through holistic, community-driven means.
Despite natural differences in vision and process, a consensus was reached and an application for designation as a Blueprint Community was submitted in February 2016, with the objective to use the Blueprint Communities know-how and process to galvanize resources and develop a revitalization plan.
Since the award of the Northeast Blueprint Community designation in March 2016, Northeast Blueprint Community team members have worked tirelessly, in partnership with neighborhood residents, businesses, institutions, and other stakeholders, to develop a community revitalization plan. Surveys, community events, stakeholder meetings, focus groups, and other activities served as a means of collecting information from stakeholders (and other planning efforts) to clearly identify issues and ways to address them.
The Northeast Wilmington Community Revitalization Plan, represents the first step in the Northeast Blueprint Community’s effort to not only create a living, dynamic revitalization plan, but also an implementation plan, so that issues and solutions identified are acted upon accordingly.
We are proud to serve and represent the Northeast Wilmington Community. It is our goal and desire that residents and other stakeholders – through outreach, collaboration, and hard work – may come together to create a shared vision and plan to move the Northeast community forward. Contact us for more information and to get involved!