News & Blog | Black Women Build

11 Apr 16:50

Apr 2022

Donated sheetrock + Volunteers for installation #gratitude

March, 24, 2022

19 Mar 17:01

Mar 2022

Afro.com story: ‘Black Women Build – Baltimore: How Shelley Halstead Is building better homes- one woman at a time’

March, 19, 2022

18 Feb 22:35

Feb 2022

Guinness Open Gate Brewery releases small batch ‘High Vis Cream Ale’ in collaboration with the BWBB team

Feb, 18, 2022

08 Feb 22:35

‘Attorney and Master Carpenter Empowering Women With Homeownership’ Shelley interviewed by Jennifer E. Mabry, AARP Magazine

Feb, 8, 2022

06 Feb 18:27

The Baltimore Sun’s ’25 Black Marylanders to Watch’

Feb, 6, 2022

27 Jan 12:41

Jan 2022

Afro.com story: JPMorgan Chase awards $5 million to Baltimore City collaborative POWER

Jan, 27, 2022

Photo Credit/Sofia Iszard/LEDC

17 Dec 13:50

Dec 2021

Maryland State Department of Planning 2021 Sustainable Growth Award

Dec 17, 2021

14 Dec 12:33

BWBB receives 2021 Zumtobel Group Award – Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment

Dec 14, 2021

16 Nov 18:51

Nov 2021

The 2021 J.M. Kaplan Fund Innovation Prize – Shelley joins an inspiring group of 10 awardees

Nov 16, 2021

10 Nov 21:41

BWBB on NPR’s Marketplace

Nov 10, 2021

Amy Scott/Marketplace

19 Sep 16:59

Sep 2021

Preservation Maryland : Smart Growth Excellence Award

Sept 17, 2021

09 Aug 11:27

Aug 2021

raffle winner will be selected 9/7! ‘She Knew Where She Was Going’: Gee’s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights — BMA Community Quilt Giveaway

June 1, 2021

12 Jul 16:27

Jul 2021

Gilbane Building Company, Morgan State University, and A&S Refuse team up with an 8 dumpster donation – we are thrilled!

June 28, 2021

26 Jun 16:19

Jun 2021

Shelley presenting closing keynote at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2021

Jun 26, 2021

05 May 11:53

May 2021

KEEN – She Builds Grant Program

May 5, 2021

29 Apr 20:15

Apr 2021

Black Women Build – Baltimore featured again on NPR’s Marketplace

April 29, 2021

by Amy Scott

03 Mar 16:59

Mar 2021

Press ‘Building Black Futures’ Shelley interviewed as UW School of Law Alum

Feb 26, 2021

20 Feb 17:14

Feb 2021

Press ‘Black Women Build – Baltimore receives donation from Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill’ – WJZ-TV

Feb 19, 2021

04 Feb 18:17

Upton in the news – ‘A bastion of Baltimore’s Black history and culture, Upton neighborhood seen as center for revitalization’ – Baltimore Sun

Feb 4, 2021

Upton/Marble Hill resident Shelley Halstead is the leader of Black Women Build, an organization that trains black women in carpentry, electrical, and plumbing skills by restoring vacant and deteriorated houses in West Baltimore. Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun

18 Jan 17:57

Jan 2021

Press – Builder Highlight – National Lumber

Jan 18, 2021

04 Jan 19:03

‘How Recycling Existing Buildings Could Solve the Urban Housing Crisis’ – Metropolis Magazine

Dec 07, 2020

29 Dec 19:50

Dec 2020

We passed inspection on all 3 houses!

Dec 29, 2020

16 Nov 02:26

Nov 2020

‘What is Generational Wealth’ ED Shelley Halstead interviewed on CNBC

Nov 15, 2020

02 Oct 18:31

Oct 2020

We were on the Kelly Clarkson Show!

Sept 22, 2020

Kelly Clarkson Show 9.22.20

02 Oct 16:01

We have a new Program Manager!

Aug 16, 2020

24 Sep 18:07

Sep 2020

Press – BWBB featured in Christian Science Monitor

Sept 24, 2020

25 Aug 15:25

Aug 2020

Stabilization on the next 3 houses has begun!

Aug 25, 2020

18 Aug 16:09

Please meet our new BWBB Participants!

Aug 18, 2020

11 Aug 17:54

Our first home owner and ED interviewed for NPR’s Marketplace

Aug 11, 2020

Black Women Build – Baltimore participant Quanshay Henderson. Amy Scott/Marketplace

27 May 16:08

May 2020

Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle Grant

May 25, 2020

22 Apr 16:40

Apr 2020

Strategic Plan 2020

April 22, 2020

13 Jan 21:48

Jan 2020

Baltimore Justice Report – New Impact Series photo essay

Jan 13, 2020

Black Women Build featured in Baltimore Justice Report
New Impact Series photo essay/Colby Ware

20 Nov 16:02

Nov 2019

Wide Angle Youth Media video

Nov 12, 2019
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Wide Angle Youth Media

15 Oct 19:45

Oct 2019

Winter is Coming – Fall 2019 Newsletter

Oct 15, 2019

01 Oct 22:31

Black Women Build featured in Baltimore Magazine

Oct 1, 2019

26 Sep 22:52

Sep 2019

Baltimore City Community Catalyst Grant #2

Sept 26, 2019

19 Sep 22:18

Etting Street Project moves forward!

Sept 19, 2019

31 Jul 21:29

Jul 2019

DEMO begins on Quanshay’s House!

July 31, 2019

It has Begun…

10 Jun 20:28

Jun 2019

Elected New Board of Directors + Advisory Board

June 10, 2019

01 Jun 18:35

First participant announced! Congratulations Quanshay Henderson!

June 1, 2019

We are excited to announce Black Women Build’s first participant is Quanshay Henderson.

Creating community, knowledge, and wealth together.

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Black Women Build-Baltimore is an equal employer. You do not need to identify as Black or a woman to apply but as a mission-based organization, we center Black women.