Challenges We Hear
Practitioners are asked to prove community capacity without the data infrastructure to do it.
- EDOs and CDFIs must demonstrate community capacity to investors, regulators, and philanthropic co-funders — with little supporting data.
- Place-based revitalization plans lean on demographic indicators that miss philanthropic and civic capacity.
- Catalytic-capital deployment stalls when local match potential cannot be sized in advance.
- Anchor institutions struggle to coordinate giving and investment across a corridor or district.