WHERE WE WORK AROUND THE NATION
BUILD California
The BUILD program was first founded in the Bay Area in 1999. As the flagship BUILD region, BUILD California showcases that dreaming big, working hard and persistence is in all of us.
In 2020, BUILD began exploring the feasibility of bringing our entrepreneurship education programming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through the support of the Richard King Mellon Foundation (RKMF), BUILD conducted a comprehensive Landscape Analysis Study (Study).
Since its launch in 2009, BUILD Metro DC has been a critical feature for the city in engaging students from under-resourced communities through our four-year entrepreneurship, business development, and post-secondary readiness model. In partnership with DCPS and charter schools, we virtually serve 180 students at five high schools in the District of Columbia.
In our seventh year in New York, BUILD is serving over 700 students at 7 partner schools in under-resourced communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island.
Before there was BUILD in Boston, there were three big-hearted venture capitalists with a dream to make a difference in the lives of teens in their community. In 2008, Jeff Glass, Ajay Agarwal, and Scott Friend of Bain Capital connected with BUILD’s founder and then CEO, Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, and the plans to bring BUILD to Boston were born.
Educators teaching BUILD’s Design Challenge
The BUILD story in California
Student prototype from Da Vinci RISE High School, Los Angeles, CA
