10th Street Neighborhood Resource Center

The Neighborhood Resource Center (NRC) at 1208 E 10th St. is a renovated historic structure in the Tenth Street Historic District, one of the nation’s oldest intact Freedmen’s Towns. The home opened to the public on June 15, 2024 and will remain open to residents in the neighborhood as a place of organizing, planning and arts events.

In partnership with the Tenth Street Residential Association, monthly neighborhood meetings will now take place here along with regular planning events to aid in realizing resident aspirations as outlined in the 10th St. Neighborhood Plan.  Before the NRC opened, there was no public meeting space in the neighborhood. For years residents had to travel outside the neighborhood to gather for neighborhood meetings, and lacked any type of public space or amenity in the neighborhood. 

In tandem, we have partnered with local artist and curator Hakeem Adewumi and his Juneteenth House project to assist with design, art, and inaugural cultural programs for the neighborhood at the Neighborhood Resource Center.

While the arts programming is funded through generous grants, and we continue to seek funding for planning implementation, we are asking for your support in funding the ongoing operational cost  -- the less glamorous but crucial items like electricity, gas, and insurance. The cost is $1,000 per month, $12,000 per year to keep the NRC open to the residents of 10th St. 

Help us reach this goal to keep the Tenth Street NRC thriving in 2025!

We are aiming to have all operational expenses funded and in reserves by the end of December 2024. In addition to helping us meet the day-to-day expense of running the NRC, this fundraiser can serve as a 1:1 match source to help us secure additional grants for exciting programming!

The Tenth Street Historic District is one of the nation’s oldest intact freedmen’s towns, and the last remaining in Dallas. Over the decades, the neighborhood has had to fight against highway construction, demolition of their homes, and for appropriate levels of public investment and care including paved roads and sidewalks. Despite all of this the neighborhood remains, and has a vision for its future -- by providing a location within Tenth Street to meet and organize in, the NRC can play a key role in helping shape that future. 

Just as importantly, the NRC is four miles from Dallas’ arts district, but community members and artists experience barriers in accessing or taking part in those cultural spaces. In the area that includes Tenth Street, 45% identify as Black, 45% as Hispanic/Latino, and 6% as white. Additionally, roughly 37% live below the poverty line.

Our goals for 2025 include:

Goal 1: Provide a neighborhood space for residents to meet, plan, and advocate for the neighborhood's future. 

Goal 2: Facilitate the production of arts and culture exhibitions that amplify neighborhood/local artists, in particular Black artists

Goal 3: Provide free educational arts and design workshops through the NRC