How we got started
The Incremental Development Alliance began in 2015 as a collaboration between small developers who found themselves overwhelmed by the number of people asking them the same question: how do I build a small building in the place I love? In order to share their mentorship and hard-won knowledge far and wide, the Alliance was created to structure a suite of classroom-based and hands-on coaching tools that could be scaled across the country for the benefit of municipal clients and developers alike.
The Alliance part of our name celebrates the many individuals, institutions, foundations, and grassroots groups that are our allies in this work. We are an Alliance of doers dedicated to our neighborhoods across this continent.
IncDev was created by a small and mighty few of radically committed thinkers and doers. Our Founding Members are credited with establishing the foundation the Alliance builds upon today. Although our Founding members are not active, each one leaves a lasting impression on the cities and neighborhoods that we know and love from the east coast to the west. We are certainly proud of all our Founders have supported the Alliance through and the work they continue to do independently. We are grateful to our founding members for making this Alliance a reality.
