Our long-term vision is a Chicago where all communities have the resources they need to create healthy built environments that support their goals for vibrant spaces, positive economic activity, and community wealth-building.
Bringing Capital & Connections
to Chicago Communities
Community Desk Chicago is a community development intermediary leveraging relationships, aggregating risk tolerant capital, and working intentionally in under-resourced communities to shift power dynamics and create a path to advance economic prosperity through community wealth-building and small-scale infill commercial real estate development.
Our Vision
Our Mission
Community Desk Chicago’s mission is to advance equitable economic prosperity in collaboration with historically under-resourced communities. We do this through an integrated approach of pooling capital, building knowledge and networks, and engaging with investors, funders, and others who influence a community’s ability to thrive.
Diversity Statement
Our strengths to serve our clients is driven by the ability to leverage our unique talents and contributions. Our organization exists for the benefit of creating a path towards advancing the needs and goals of under-resourced communities. As a result, it is important that our clients see a reflection of us in them. Throughout our work, we support diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to age, disability status, economic circumstance, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation.
From 2018 to 2022, The Desk incubated at the Chicago Community Trust. It was established through a collaborative partnership with the Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Illinois’ Future and JPMorgan Chase.