Empowering Community Developers to Build Thriving Neighborhoods

The Community Developers Roundtable is a collective network and capacity-building initiative for established non-profit and for-profit community oriented real estate developers, that reflect the communities in which they serve.


The Roundtable builds the community development ecosystem by offering a longer term, developer-led structure with ongoing feedback and accountability. Roundtable participants have access to critical capital to fund innovative and impactful community-oriented real estate projects and to grow their organizational capacity.

New Opportunities: CDR Comes to Fort Worth!

Building on the incredible success and impact of our Dallas initiatives, we are officially bringing our capacity-building network and critical resources to Fort Worth.


Join us at our launch event on August 28, 2025, to learn more about the vision for CDR in Fort Worth, and the opportunity to empower more community-oriented real estate developers who are ready to transform their neighborhoods. We're extending our proven model of ongoing support, accountability, and access to vital capital to fuel innovative and impactful projects across the city.


This expansion means more than just growth for the Community Developers Roundtable program: it means a future with more affordable housing options, revitalized commercial spaces, and stronger, more vibrant communities throughout North Texas and beyond. By investing in local developers, we empower community prosperity.

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Empowering Community Development throughout North Texas

WHY NOW?

Fortifying Communities Across North Texas

Across North Texas, there is a need to build capacity for existing and rising community-oriented developers bringing innovative solutions to increase housing affordability and community-based amenities in order to stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods. 


Many emerging markets are limited in capacity and typically lack access to flexible capital and partnerships. Empowering existing, community-focused developers will allow increased possibilities to address neighborhood-level concerns in our communities, including minimal attainable housing options, fear of displacement, and loss of communal assets like community-led grocers and retailers.

OUR IMPACT

Driving Tangible Change in Community Development

By aggregating partnerships, maintaining community, and promoting collective strategies, the Roundtable is strengthening the community development ecosystem. A result of the program is increasing both the capacities and collective voices of community-oriented developers, and growing the developer pipeline focused on housing affordability and community-based amenities.

2022-2024 Pilot Program Results

Impact Report

Since its launch in September 2022, the Community Developers Roundtable (CDR) Pilot Program has significantly elevated the impact of 22 community-oriented real estate developers in Dallas. This two-year initiative has successfully empowered its members with vital technical, networking, and financial resources, fostering their growth in business, skills, and community impact.


This collaborative approach led to remarkable collective impacts:


  • 11 CDR members secured new capital through Roundtable introductions
  • 8 engaged in new business ventures with fellow members
  • Cumulatively, CDR members were involved in nearly $125 million in development activity between Fall 2022 and Fall 2024.
  • CDR financial partner BCL provided over $1.7 million in loans to members, directly funding 39 housing units and underscoring the program's tangible contributions to Dallas's affordable housing supply, new retail, and vital community services.
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