Financial Aggregation Feasibility

What would it take to make it easier to acquire capital for community ownership?

Community ownership organizations often pursue financing one project at a time, each “reinventing the wheel” as they navigate complex transactions and build relationships with funders and lenders to assemble capital for a single deal. Meanwhile, many sources of institutional capital operate at a scale that individual organizations and projects struggle to access.

As a partner of the COLA Lab, The Bridgespan Group explored whether financial aggregation could help bridge that gap.

Community Ownership Financial Aggregation Research

This study explores whether aggregating capital can make financing more accessible for shared ownership while keeping community control at the center. It outlines what different structures could look like and the conditions necessary to make them viable.

In this webinar highlight reel, we dive into the findings of The Bridgespan Group's first-of-its-kind study on financial aggregation for community ownership.

Join Atharva Sinha (Bridgespan Group) and Curt Lyon (Transform Finance) as they unpack the critical tensions between hyper-local needs and national-scale capital markets. In a conversation facilitated by Ahmed Mori (University of Miami's Community Ownership Learning & Action Lab), they discuss the study's recommendation for a dual-track aggregation model and other strategies to make community ownership a viable competitor in today's real estate landscape.