Who Are We?

Citywide Youth Development uses manufacturing and entrepreneurship to elevate a new economic framework for youth and young adults in Baltimore that builds upon traditional approaches and incorporates key strategies that result in doing business in a more intentional and ultimately more effective way.

 In order to further our mission to providing solutions for crime & poverty, Citywide has established the EMAGE Center. The acronym stands for Entrepreneurs Making And Growing Enterprises!

The idea of “Community Wealth Building - is a place-based, systems approach to community and economic development that ensures local and equitable ownership and control of wealth; develops mutually reinforcing economic enterprises; invests in assets that are anchored locally; and engages the procurement power of institutional partners.”