Field Catalyst

Field Catalyst brings together established leaders in community investment, community development, community organizing, adaptive leadership, and racial justice to cross-fertilize and refine their coaching and technical consultation skills.

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Racial Equity

CCI aims to catalyze field-level change by sharing its work broadly and creating a multiplier effect.

Field Catalyst helps us do this by convening established practitioners for 15 months of cross-fertilizing their experiences and expertise, strengthening their coaching and technical skills, and deepening their understanding of community investment (including capital absorption), racial justice, and adaptive leadership.

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Field Catalysts Lead Change

Field Catalysts are transforming the community investment field. With boldness, clear direction, and accountability, they coach others on how to apply the capital absorption framework. Expanding our collective learning, they use their expertise to hone current tools and create new resources to reach our shared goals. Field Catalysts help others:

Identify bottlenecks and gaps in the community investment system.

Surface and refine shared priorities to guide decision-making and resource allocation.

Advance built environment projects aligned with community priorities.

Advocate for the creation of new policy and practices.

Address structural inequities in their institutions and fields.

Center the voices and vision of community members.

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Testimonial

I was on the steering committee of Chicago Funders Together, an affiliate of the national Funders Together to End Homelessness. We were shepherding a strategic plan for this collaborative to help move resources. I was able to apply the capital absorption framework and thinking around racial justice to inform that work more explicitly.

Heather Parish, Albert Pick Jr. Fund

Meet our 2024-2025 Field Catalysts!

These 16 changemakers will participate in a 15-month action-learning program that develops leaders’ capacity to facilitate effective community investment collaborations. They join a network of leaders committed to advancing racial equity and supporting disinvested communities to achieve their environmental, social, and economic priorities. 

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Joanna Trotter

Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase and Co.
Executive Director/Senior Program Officer, Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul Markets
Chicago, Illinois
Joanna Trotter

Past Participants

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Emily Yu

Chief Partnerships and Program Officer, Newman’s Own Foundation
Founder & CEO, AI PRIORI, INC
Washington, District of Columbia
Emily Yu
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Mike Walsh

Riverside County Department of Housing & Workforce Solutions
Deputy Director
Indio, California
Mike Walsh
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Robert Harris

Center for Community Investment
Initiative Director, Connecting Capital and Community
Indianapolis, Indiana
Robert Harris
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Romi Hall

Center for Community Investment
Director of Network and Influence
Oakland, California
Romi Hall
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Stacy Spann

Wells Fargo Foundation
Head of Housing Access and Affordability Philanthropy
Kensington, Maryland
Stacy Spann

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