CULTIVATE INITIATIVES WORKFORCE HUB + VILLAGE

Cultivate Initiatives’ workforce hub will provide 26 transitional tiny home pods for houseless friends seeking skills training, paid work experience, and supportive services.  Each 120sf pod is designed to be moveable, durable, energy efficient, and accessible.  Additional goals for these pods is that they can be paired as duplexes to maximize site efficiency, each can be personalized with spaces for co-created murals, and all will feature solar panels and healthy materials.  

Cultivate’s Workforce Hub provides office and meeting space for service operations, equipment repair / training facilities, vehicle fleet parking for community cleanup and maintenance operations, toiletry supply distribution storage and truck loading, pod construction yard / shop, a community gathering / event hub, outdoor kitchen, pod village (for workers transitioning to permanent housing).

Back in 2020, Ink Built met a small group of committed people with minimal resources of their own, providing hands-on services to encampments of houseless folx during the pandemic.  Since helping them tell their stories of impact through a winning RFP response, we’ve supported Cultivate Initiatives as they’ve expanded into a full non-profit organization crafted of their own vision.  We helped them evaluate and secure a former retail/industrial property as their new workforce hub, and worked as Architect, owner’s rep, and development advisor as they’ve completed office renovations, village housing pod design, and a reimagining of their site as a place of workforce training, housing, and community gathering. 

Cultivate Initiatives abundant heart and tenacity alongside our strategic and holistic skillset have enabled their rapid growth as they secure grant funding and apply it through one incremental improvement project after another.  This is some of the most exciting and rewarding work we do, because the impacts in people’s lives are real and visceral as we’ve lived alongside them through every step.