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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
Leadership Development
CCI offers leadership development opportunities based on our Capital Absorption Framework. To ignite lasting change in communities, leaders focus on community investment, racial equity, and adaptive leadership.
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Leadership programs often focus on individual leaders without considering their contexts—in both their locations and fields. CCI brings together different types of leaders working across the country and equips them to lead transformational change, allowing participants to learn from each other and creating a multiplier effect.
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The Fellowship not only facilitated my growth as a leader, but it also introduced me to amazing thinkers and practitioners who are transforming how economic development is done in our cities.
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Fulcrum Fellowship
The Fulcrum Fellowship equips rising executives in the philanthropic, nonprofit, public, and private sectors to lead transformational change. Grounded in action learning and based on CCI’s capital absorption framework, the program positions Fellows to help disinvested communities achieve their environmental, social, and economic priorities.
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Field Catalyst
Field Catalyst is designed to bring 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 to support community investment partnerships.
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California Climate Leaders Fellows
The California Climate Leaders Fellowship addresses the challenges created by climate change—especially in the BIPOC, immigrant, and rural California communities that struggle to get their fair share of resources despite their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. This requires not just advocacy, but also investment and system change.
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Initiatives
Connecting Capital and Community (3C), funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co, addresses the racial inequities at the core of the housing ecosystem. The three-year initiative is working to change opportunity structures in five U.S. cities.
Partnerships
Cross-sector partnerships can find solutions to complex problems through community-led change efforts. CCI can help you strengthen your local community investment systems so that your community can reach its full potential.
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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
