Isles, Inc.
Founded in 1981 by students and faculty of Princeton University, Isles is an award-winning community development and environmental nonprofit organization. Isles’ mission is to foster self-reliant families in healthy, sustainable communities.
Isles is known for its comprehensive approach to complex community challenges, offering services such as:
- Green job training
- Green real estate development
- Community gardening
- Homebuyer education
- Foreclosure prevention counseling
- Community planning
- Youth training and education
- Micro-business loans
- Environmental education and remediation
To broaden its impact, Isles develops easily replicable approaches to community development. Isles works with hundreds of public, private, and academic partners to achieve innovative, cost-effective ways to accomplish its mission. In addition to community-based development services, Isles works to change regional and statewide policies that concentrate poverty, undermine schools, promote sprawl, and foster racial segregation.
