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Hospitals have provided care to the sick for centuries. Now, driven by a growing understanding of the social determinants of health, many healthcare organizations are addressing the root causes of health concerns. They go beyond individual needs to the underlying conditions that affect the health of a whole community. Health institutions can use their assets—land, financial resources, relationships, expertise—to support community investment and improve community health.
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Capital Absorption Framework
Communities use CCI’s capital absorption framework to collaborate on strengthening their investment systems and accessing resources to achieve their visions.
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Turning Investment Around
About the Framework
The capital absorption framework turns investment inside out, with community partners and stakeholders—rather than outside developers—driving the process and working together to build an effective community investment system that works for that community. The framework focuses on three areas: a shared priority, an investable pipeline of deals and projects, and the enabling environment. When a community group works on all three areas, it strengthens the community’s ability to achieve needed systemic change—and improves the community investment system so that future deals will be easier.


Shared Priorities
A shared priority has two parts: an aspiration for using investment to bring racial equity to a community and a result that names the specific change and outcome that will achieve that aspiration.


Investable Pipeline
An investable pipeline is a set of deals and projects that help a community reach its shared priority. Instead of focusing on one deal at a time, working on a pipeline of deals can help a community achieve a shared priority more quickly and efficiently.


Enabling Environment
The enabling environment is the setting in which community investment takes place. It includes everything that makes it easier or harder to develop and fund projects to realize a shared priority.
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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, or join our network.
Field Catalysts help others advance built environment projects aligned with community priorities.
Field Catalysts help others surface and refine shared priorities to guide decision-making and resource allocation.
Field Catalysts help others advocate for the creation of new policy and practices.
Field Catalysts help others surface and refine shared priorities to guide decision-making and resource allocation.
Field Catalysts help others advocate for the creation of new policy and practices.
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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, or join our network.


Our Programs
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
Capital absorption is an approach that works for affordable housing, climate resilience, community and economic development, health institutions, philanthropy, community control, racial equity and more.


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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!
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Capital absorption is an essential framework for producing and preserving the equitable, quality affordable housing that communities need for all their residents to thrive.


As communities navigate the impacts of climate change, the capital absorption framework will help leaders work together to design equitable strategies and innovative financing for climate resilience.


Community and Economic Development
Equitable community and economic development led by and for community organizations, leaders, and residents builds community assets.


Hospitals, health systems, and health insurance plans are increasingly focused on community health. Their mission, resources, and relationships make them invaluable community investment participants and partners.


Foundations have the knowledge, wide-ranging relationships, multifaceted resources, and flexibility to be powerful supports for innovation in local community investment systems.


Shared Ownership
The capital absorption framework keeps residents at the center of community investment, from identifying community priorities to making deals that prevent displacement and create ownership opportunities.


The capital absorption framework unlocks the capital needed to undo structural racism so that all communities can thrive by meeting local needs and transforming their investment systems.
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The Capital Absorption Framework
The framework’s three functions—articulating shared priorities, creating and executing an investable pipeline of deals and projects, and improving the enabling environment.
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Our Programs
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.
Making Investments Work
The Capital Absorption Framework
The framework’s three functions—articulating shared priorities, creating and executing an investable pipeline of deals and projects, and improving the enabling environment.
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Our program brings together a diverse cohort of up to 12 rising executives from the public, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sectors. Each Fellow will commit to addressing a challenge of critical importance to their organization and community. Eligible participants are those who:








Have been working for at least 10 to 15 years in one of our focus fields—community health, climate resilience, housing and community development, creative placemaking, philanthropy, and finance








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Hospitals and health systems can be game-changing participants in efforts to improve conditions in the places they serve. They can do this through investing upstream in the social determinants, harnessing an array of assets to create more equitable, sustainable, and healthy communities.
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