RBPCDC Program Overview

Rebuilding Broken Places Community Development Corporation (RBPCDC) is a 501©3 not for profit faith based organization committed to the development of economically distressed urban and rural communities in Goldsboro and Wayne County.

Our mission implements the strategies of Nehemiah Chapter 2 in the old testament for rebuilding the community and the gospel of Luke 4:18 in the new testament for helping those in need. Our sole purpose is to raise the social, educational and economic levels of low-income citizens by providing long-term quality of life improvements.

As a faith based community development corporation we are a business with a conscience and a theology. It responds to people as a whole; it doesn't single out just spiritual or just physical needs; it speaks to both. Faith based does not mean RBPCDC proselytize the community it serves to a particular faith, however, RBPCDC operates on the basis of its Christian faith.

Rebuilding Broken Places believes in comprehensive economic development. By focusing on the social, educational and economic needs of the community. Through comprehensive economic development we build buildings and people in order to revitalize the community.

Poverty results from a combination of overlapping problems—poor health, unemployment, inferior schooling, juvenile delinquency, family problems, drug dependency, etc.—our comprehensive strategy focuses on:

1. affordable housing,
2. preschool/daycare/after school;
3. credit restoration;
4. mortgage financing;
5. senior citizen housing,
6. job readiness training and skills development;
7. leadership development,
8. small business enterprise development and
9. substance abuse prevention.

Our purpose is rooted on the fact that no community should exists in economic isolation. Moreover, when individuals and families are provided with the resources and the support they will take advantage of the opportunities to help themselves.