Racism and injustice are woven into our nation’s financial and political systems. These systems shape local policies and funding practices, concentrating economic precarity in specific neighborhoods. Community investment seeks to meet the needs of those neighborhoods but doing so one project at a time leaves the underlying systems unchanged. No single organization or campaign will overcome these systems. The Center for Community Investment’s capital absorption framework offers ways to create coordinated, justice-oriented interventions. A holistic intervention coordinates community priorities, projects to address those priorities, sources of funding for projects, and the relationships and regulations that make resources available for them.  Join leaders from California’s Coachella Valley, where a multisector team is working to develop 10,000 new affordable housing units by 2028. Using collective impact and capital absorption, they are working to broaden the realm of the possible and create new ways to invest in communities for the long haul.