Helping Communities Achieve Their Visions
People want to live in thriving places. But structural racism distributes resources inequitably. CCI helps communities create equitable, effective investment systems so all their residents can flourish.
Capital Absorption Framework
Communities use CCI’s Capital Absorption Framework to collaborate on strengthening their investment systems and accessing resources to achieve their visions.
Defining a Shared Priority: A shared priority guides your capital absorption work. Affordable housing? Economic development? Climate resilience? Your community will decide.
Building and Moving a Pipeline: Your pipeline is a set of deals and projects that will help achieve your community’s shared priority—and make your investment system work better.
Shaping the Enabling Environment: The enabling environment is what makes investments easier or harder (policies, practices, funding, skills, relationships, and more). You can change it!
Our Resources
New and Notable
- Report, Case Study
Redefining Risk in Service of Mission: Lending Cases from Bay Area LISC
Testimonial
CCI exposed us to the world, they exposed us to so many different possibilities and ways of thinking, they helped us to disrupt the status quo and disrupt the structural stuff that perpetuates these issues around housing.
Thea James, Executive Director of the Health Equity Accelerator, Boston Medical Center
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What Do You Want to Know
CCI offers many entry points to capital absorption and equitable community investment. Take a look at our programs, dive into the resources for our focus areas, join our network, or subscribe to our newsletter.
Our Work
Our place-based initiatives, leadership development cohorts, and other programs equip participants with the capital absorption, adaptive leadership, and racial equity skills to transform their investment systems.
Our Focus Areas
Community partners use capital absorption to advance affordable housing, climate resilience, community health, philanthropic partnerships, and racial equity.
Our Network
Want to connect with other people and organizations doing this work? Curious about what’s happening in your community or region? Seeking peer support for your efforts? Our network is for you!
The Latest From CCI
News, stories about our work, and more. For general press inquiries, please contact [email protected].
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Cities, and managed an affordable housing investment program at the Center for Community Investment. In her current role as a Senior Program
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She previously worked as a public health strategist with the Center for Community Investment and the National League of Cities. A native
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The CDFI Creating Affordable Homeownership Models in South Los Angeles
initiative, Connecting Capital and Community (3C), which is run by the Center for Community Investment and funded by JPMorgan Chase. In five
Our Resources
Learn About Equitable
Community Investment
- Case Study
Preserving Affordable Housing Along the Purple Line Corridor: AIHC’s Purple Line Coalition
