What is “Place-based”?
Place-based work is about people in a given place working together for sustainable, long-term transformation. Rather than applying broad, one-size-fits-all solutions, place-based initiatives focus on specific neighborhoods, deeply engaging local voices, culture, challenges, and opportunities to design solutions that truly fit that place. These efforts emphasize community leadership over external directives, collaboration over isolation, and holistic approaches over narrow, sector-specific fixes—connecting housing, education, health, family support, and neighborhood vitality into an integrated strategy for systemic change.
In practice, successful place-based work engages residents as partners, brings together many stakeholders, and layers investments over time to reverse decades of disinvestment and build flourishing communities.
Who's involved?
Welborn has partnered with these organizations who are actively engaged in place-based initiatives:
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Welborn's Role
By investing in place-based efforts, Welborn supports community-led solutions that strengthen people, neighborhoods, and systems. These priorities are realized through our grant cycles and in our roles as collaborator, convener, and intentionally layered investments. All of which reflect Welborn’s commitment to cultivating communities that flourish and advancing strategies that drive sustainable change across our region.
Where You Live Matters
Did you know that where you live impacts your health, education, and economic opportunities?
The Where You Live Matters data report from Grow helps you explore how neighborhood conditions shape life outcomes. This report takes an in-depth look at the Greater Evansville region and area neighborhoods’ strengths and challenges.
