Capital Absorption
Strengthening Housing Through a Just Recovery (2021)
This Sprint brought together four teams pursuing place-based housing investment initiatives in California’s San Bernardino and Riverside counties (a region known as the Inland Empire).
Strengthening Housing Through a Just Recovery
Participants in this four-month course sought to strengthen affordable housing investment in the Inland Empire because it is where people who have been displaced from the bigger cities in Southern California have ended up. CCI convened leaders committed to learning and applying a systems approach to community investment in affordable housing with a lens of addressing racial inequities and economic marginalization in their communities.
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Community and Economic Development
From Silos to Collaborations: Building a Health Partner Investment Strategy
Community and Economic Development
COVID-19, Structural Racism, and Community Investment: Notes Toward a Just Recovery
Program Principles
Each learning community session will include coaching and facilitation tailored to each team’s needs, as well as opportunities for peer exchange. These sessions are structured to drive creative problem solving and generate systems level insights through active participation of team members.
Center Racial Justice and Black Communities
Nothing About Us Without Us
Spend According to Your Values
Prepare for the Long Haul
Lead with Courage
Community Learning Sessions
CCI supports teams to strengthen their local community investment ecosystems by applying three functions of capital absorption – defining shared priorities, developing a pipeline and capital flow, and changing policies and practices – to transform the structure of opportunity and achieve important community goals through intensive learning engagements.
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino, California
Riverside County, California
Coachella Valley, California
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