PRESENTER
MEET THE SPRE SUMMIT PRESENTER
Community Spaces Network
Community Spaces Network is a peer-driven network, innovative thought leader, and resource-rich convener for the social purpose real estate field across the United States and Canada. We are: nonprofit shared space operators and developers, community and nonprofit leaders, nonprofit real estate professionals and developers, community finance professionals, social justice advocates building power through land control, architects, planners, and construction professionals, government and economic development practitioners, and affordable housing and land trust professionals. Together we work to grow the collaborative network necessary to create community-serving, community-owned real estate assets, so that ultimately social purpose real estate leaders can support greater impact in local communities.
host committee
MEET THE SPRE SUMMIT HOST COMMITTEE
The Host Committee is made up of Atlanta-based social purpose real estate organizations who know their city deeply and are passionate about sharing it. Working alongside Community Spaces Network, these locally rooted community leaders and SPRE practitioners weave Atlanta’s people, places, and expertise into every aspect of the Summit.
Kindred Futures
Kindred Futures is an Atlanta-based nonprofit dedicated to building collective Black wealth and dismantling the racial wealth divide across the South. Founded in response to Atlanta’s stark economic inequities, Kindred Futures leverages ideas, people, and capital through research, policy advocacy, movement building, and catalytic investment to support Black communities in driving immediate and lasting wealth-building transformation.
Low Income Investment Fund
Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is a national nonprofit CDFI that mobilizes capital and partnerships to expand opportunity for low-income people and communities. With a regional office in Atlanta, LIIF finances affordable housing, early care and education, charter schools, and community facilities across the city and broader Southeast — grounded in the belief that access to quality homes, education, and good jobs are foundational to community well-being.
PCCI
Project Community Connections, Inc. (PCCI) is an Atlanta-based nonprofit dedicated to permanently rehousing individuals and families experiencing homelessness into decent, affordable homes — often within 30 days. Using a Housing First approach, PCCI builds relationships with property owners, government agencies, and community organizations across metro Atlanta to connect people to stable housing and the wraparound support they need to thrive long-term.
Reinvestment Fund
Reinvestment Fund is a national mission-driven CDFI that combines flexible financing, data analysis, and policy expertise to build opportunity in communities underserved by traditional capital. With a regional office in Atlanta, Reinvestment Fund has been a consistent partner in the city’s community development landscape — financing affordable housing, community facilities, and education projects across the metro area and broader Southeast.
The Guild
The Guild is an Atlanta-based, worker-owned cooperative and leading innovator in community-owned real estate. Rooted in Southwest Atlanta, The Guild deploys models like the Community Stewardship Trust and People’s Community Land Trust to enable residents to co-own and steward neighborhood assets — ensuring that wealth generated from real estate stays in the communities that built it.
WORKING GROUP
MEET THE SPRE SUMMIT WORKING GROUP
The SPRE Summit Working Group is a collective of interdisciplinary social purpose real estate organizations and practitioners united by a shared commitment to advancing a vision forward for community real estate, development, and investment. Together with Community Spaces Network, they build the SPRE Summit that brings that vision to life.
312 Main
312 Main is a centre for social and economic innovation located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A project of Vancity Community Foundation, 312 Main transformed a former Vancouver Police Department headquarters into a community-centered hub offering affordable coworking, office, and event space for nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, artists, and local residents. Rooted in principles of social justice and economic inclusion, 312 Main creates the conditions for collaboration and community connection — demonstrating what’s possible when space is stewarded in service of people and place.
AACDFI
The African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs (AAACDFI) is a national coalition of Black-led Community Development Financial Institutions committed to closing the racial wealth gap and expanding economic opportunity in Black and historically excluded communities. Through advocacy, capacity-building, and peer collaboration, the Alliance strengthens its members’ ability to grow their institutions and deepen their community impact — bridging historic capital gaps and driving long-term economic development where it’s needed most.
CCI
The Center for Community Investment (CCI) supports places — especially low-income, rural, and immigrant communities — to transform their community investment ecosystems so they can achieve their visions for the future. Through a national practitioner network, CCI ensures communities are working not in isolation but as part of a broader collective effort to advance equity and self-determination. Recognizing that who owns, governs, and benefits from investment is as important as how much capital flows into communities, CCI promotes shared ownership, long-term stewardship, and community control of assets.
Community Center for Progress
The Center for Community Progress is the only national nonprofit dedicated to transforming vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties into assets for neighbors and neighborhoods. Since 2010, their team of legal, strategic, and policy experts has worked alongside policymakers, local governments, and community members to address the full cycle of property revitalization — including building the land banking systems that make equitable reuse possible. By uncovering and disrupting the unjust systems that allow vacancy and blight to take root, Community Progress helps communities reclaim land and put it back in service of people.
CAST
Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) is a community-centered real estate organization committed to ensuring artists and cultural workers can stay anchored where they create. CAST models new ways to secure and steward affordable, inclusive spaces for creative and cultural expression — applying real estate financing tools and structural models in innovative ways, building community knowledge and agency, and creating space for arts activation and visioning. Their programs have helped arts organizations build pathways to ownership, enabled artists to secure long-term affordable leases, and created dedicated spaces for cultural connection and exchange.
IFF
IFF is a mission-driven CDFI grounded in equity and deep sector expertise, championing nonprofits to shape more equitable and vibrant communities through community-centered lending, real estate development, and consulting. Since 1988, IFF has worked at the intersection of facilities and finance, providing $1.8 billion in flexible, affordable financing to nonprofits across a variety of sectors — and is one of only a few CDFIs nationally to hold Aeris’ top four-star rating for impact management and AAA rating for financial strength.
Reinvestment Fund
Reinvestment Fund is a national mission-driven CDFI that has channeled more than $3.5 billion into communities underserved by traditional capital sources since its founding in 1985. By combining flexible financing with rigorous data analysis and policy expertise, Reinvestment Fund supports affordable housing, community facilities, healthy food access, education, and healthcare in low-income communities — working to dismantle the inequitable investment practices that have long concentrated wealth and opportunity away from the people and places that need it most.
RWJF
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the largest health-focused philanthropy in the United States, dedicated to achieving health equity and building a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right. Through grantmaking, research, advocacy, and impact investing, RWJF works alongside communities, practitioners, and institutions to address the structural conditions — including racism, economic inequality, and access to opportunity — that drive health disparities across the country.
Thirdspace Action Lab
ThirdSpace Action Lab was created to disrupt the vicious cycle of disinvestment and displacement that exploit low-income communities of color. We are a grassroots research, strategy, and design cooperative dedicated to prototyping creative place-based solutions to actualize racial equity. We are institutional and community organizers turning evidence-based strategies into action and co-creating liberated “third spaces” for people of color.