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2025 Highlights
Legacy Resident Ambassadors Voices Strengthen City’s Home Repair Programs
The ideas and insight of Southeast Raleigh Promise Legacy Resident Ambassadors (LRAs) led the City of Raleigh to make updates and changes to its Home Repair and Substantial Rehabilitation Programs.…
Paving Pathways to Prosperity with Preparation and Access to Opportunities
At Southeast Raleigh Promise, we believe pathways to prosperity are built through preparation and opportunity. To move forward, we must first understand where we’ve been and where we are today.…
SERP Draws One Step Closer to Delivering on the “Promise of Home”
After more than three years of planning, determination, and coordination, Southeast Raleigh Promise (SERP) is one step closer to delivering on the “Promise of Home”: we have officially closed on…
Southeast Raleigh Coalition Wins Statewide Award for Property Tax Justice
We’ve been awarded for impact! Southeast Raleigh Promise, along with the Men of Southeast Raleigh, Raleigh Village East, and Southeast Raleigh Table, has received the Best Grassroots Mobilization award from…
Preserving Legacy, Building Hope: Southeast Raleigh’s Volunteer Day Delivers Impact
The 4th Annual Southeast Raleigh Home Preservation Volunteer Event on September 24, 2025, was an incredible day of unity, purpose, and impact! Thanks to over 100 volunteers and community partners,…
Partnership Brings Free Estate Planning Services to Southeast Raleigh
We are proud to continue our partnership with Legal Aid of North Carolina and Smith Anderson Law Firm to host free Wills & Estates Clinics. Over the past two years,…
Your Voice Helps Build Promise: Join the NCSECC Campaign
The North Carolina State Employees Combined Campaign (NCSECC) is in full swing—and this year, social media is taking center stage. With fewer in-person events, online storytelling is how we’ll connect…
Bringing Small Business Together: RQRC SBA Hosts First Networking Event for Corridor Entrepreneurs
Our Rock Quarry Road Corridor Small Business Alliance (RQRC SBA) is excited to announce its first-ever networking event, created specifically for the small businesses located along the Rock Quarry Road…
Southeast Raleigh 4th Annual Home Preservation Volunteer Event Will Repair Homes, Help Build a New Home, & Beautify Southeast Raleigh
On Wednesday, September 24, Southeast Raleigh Promise will join with Wells Fargo and Habitat for Humanity for the 4th Annual Southeast Raleigh Home (& Parks) Preservation Volunteer Event. Partners for…
Neighbors Win Historic Property Tax Justice in Southeast Raleigh
In June, Wake County took an unprecedented step: reducing the tax values of 600 longtime neighbor properties across six historically Black neighborhoods—just one year after a countywide revaluation. This outcome…
New elementary school in Y facility aims to turn Southeast Raleigh’s image around
The News & Observer By: T. Keung Hui The Wake County school system has 191 schools, but the only school with a swimming pool is not in affluent western Cary…
Southeast Raleigh Promise Overview
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Saving the lives of black babies in Wake County is the goal of a new effort
The News & Observer Lynn Bonner Black babies in Wake County are six times more likely to die before they reach their first birthday than white babies. The higher death…
Warm welcomes encourage children on first day of school in Wake, Durham, Cumberland counties
The majority of students in central North Carolina headed back to school Monday. Wake County Public School System schools on the traditional calendar, Durham Public Schools, and Cumberland County Schools…
SECU Foundation Provides Funding to Help Revitalize Southeast Raleigh Community
Raleigh, N.C. – A $2 million grant from the member-funded SECU Foundation will help revitalize the Southeast Raleigh community. SECU Foundation Board Chair Cynthia Jolly announced the grant and presented…
Growing Leadership
Dalia Place Southeast Raleigh Promise Do you believe the old adage “They’re a natural born leader”? As the oldest of six, you can imagine how many times this has been…
‘It’s hard.’ Forum focuses on gentrification and mental health in Southeast Raleigh.
The News & Observer By Anna Johnson Much like their parents and grandparents, teenagers and children in a community feel the effects of gentrification, including the havoc it can wreak…
Groundbreaking held for joint YMCA, school in southeast Raleigh
Gloria Rodriguez RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) — Community leaders celebrated a joint school and YMCA being built in southeast Raleigh. The project on Rock Quarry Road will include pools, playgrounds, an…
By The Community For The Community
Entrepreneurship is critical to the vitality of the local economy and a resource for community health and well-being. Creating a culture of entrepreneurship among community residents generates empowerment within the…
Welcome Jennifer Castillo to Southeast Raleigh Promise
Jennifer is returning to graduate school for a Master’s in Social Work (with a certificate in family life coaching) because as much as she loves first generation college students, she…