Historic Clayborn Temple is a nonprofit organization located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The building (also known as Historic Clayborn Temple) is officially acknowledged as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, because of the role it played in the Civil Rights Movement. It served as the base of operations for the Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968, where civil rights and labor activists organized to demand better working conditions and higher pay, and the venue where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech that helped to galvanize the nation’s attention. The church was closed in 1999 and subsequently fell into disrepair until artist, cultural strategist, and restorative economics practitioner Anasa Troutman acquired the building in 2019. The holistic approach Historic Clayborn Temple is taking in its work (investing in the physical, economic, cultural, and social infrastructure of a specific place, its broader neighborhood, and eventually the city) is a harbinger that will indicate if we as a country are prepared (or not) to acknowledge, learn from, and (most importantly) repair the harms done to Black communities, Indigenous peoples, and other historically marginalized people. AmbitioUS provided $150,000 of renewed general operating support to Historic Clayborn Temple.