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Housing + People + Neighborhood

BUILDING PLACES.
TRANSFORMING LIVES.

NOW WE KNOW is a Baltimore-based nonprofit advancing neighborhood transformation through housing, human stability, economic opportunity, strategic partnerships, and community investment.

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  • Baltimore-Based
  • Maryland 501(c)(3)
  • Veteran-Informed Leadership
  • Community Development Platform
  • Community Partnerships
Why NOW WE KNOW Exists

Connected problems need a coordinated response.

Neighborhood stabilization requires more than housing. It requires a balanced ecosystem of housing choices, human stability, commercial investment, economic opportunity, quality public spaces, and long-term resident ownership.

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Residents

Housing stability, homebuyer readiness, and pathways to economic mobility.

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Neighborhoods

Strategic land reuse, vacant-property transformation, and neighborhood-scale investment.

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Partnerships

Convening public, capital, development, and community partners around shared outcomes.

Our Core Pillars

Housing + People + Neighborhood.

Three connected pillars form how NOW WE KNOW approaches community development — the operating structure of Baltimore Reimagined.

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Housing

Expanding housing choice through mixed-income development, homeownership pathways, veteran housing strategies, and innovative infill development.

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People

Strengthening housing stability through navigation, supportive services, homebuyer preparation, workforce connections, and coordinated community partnerships.

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Neighborhood

Rebuilding the physical and economic fabric of communities through strategic land reuse, commercial development, placemaking, partnerships, and neighborhood-scale investment.

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Baltimore Reimagined

Our Flagship Framework: Baltimore Reimagined.

Baltimore Reimagined is NOW WE KNOW's integrated neighborhood transformation framework.

It coordinates housing, human services, commercial development, land strategy, placemaking, workforce partnerships, and community investment around a simple idea: lasting neighborhood transformation happens when we strengthen Housing, People, and Neighborhood together.

Initiatives advance as partnerships, financing, and Board authorization allow.

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Implementation Relationships

Partnerships That Strengthen Communities.

Comprehensive neighborhood development requires coordinated expertise and capital across the public, private, philanthropic, and community sectors.

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Independent Development & Implementation Company

Bravo Two LLC

Bravo Two LLC is an independent, for-profit development and implementation company that may provide professional services to NOW WE KNOW on a project-by-project basis under written, arm's-length agreements.

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Build With Us.

Partner with NOW WE KNOW to strengthen Housing, People, and Neighborhood across Baltimore.

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