Peach Umbrella Network identifies, promotes, grows, and invests in  the Black-owned small business community in our BELOVED COMMUNITY. The aim is to build a cooperative and collective economy in The Set. Goods and services of Peach Umbrella Network can be found at Blackmer’s Market, a quarterly open air market showcasing the locally owned Black businesses serving The Set.

Affiliate Partners: VP Creative Consulting manages the Peach Umbrella Network activities and partners.

We Are Home builds affordable homes on the properties of legacy families in The Set. Repair + Restore protects The Set’s elders and families from losing or selling their properties due to economic pressures and/or lack of access to resources for needed structural improvements and repairs by providing resources and rehabilitation support. Together, efforts support affordable and attainable housing and allow residents of this BELOVED COMMUNITY to resist complete displacement and gentrification.

Affiliate Partner: Delray Beach Community Development Corporation protects and preserves existing ownership of housing stock in The Set neighborhood and helps build new, attainable homes on the properties of legacy families.

Education for Liberation efforts focus on The Set’s community schools. Teachers, staff, parents, and students are reimagining the public education options for our youth and reclaiming our schools through family and community advocacy and engagement, teacher and staff support, student-centered visioning, design facilitation, and resource development. Reclaim Our Village at Village Academy is bringing the “community” back into “community schools.”

Affiliate Partner Sunflower Creative Arts is bringing PLAY, NATURE and the ARTS into our early childhood classrooms.