JENNIFER HAWKINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR at One Neighborhood Builders, is helping to launch the organization's $1 million community-led participatory budgeting initiative, which is using funds that comes from both a $450,000 grant from the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and through private grant funding. / COURTESY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS
Jennifer Hawkins has been the executive director at One Neighborhood Builders since 2017, and she has been credited with helping to double the capacity of the organization, as it adds to a portfolio of 466 units of affordable homes in Greater Providence that it developed throughout its nearly 35-year history. Now, One Neighborhood Builders is…