Events

Community Vision and Community Spaces Network are thrilled to co-present the 2025 Social Purpose Real Estate (SPRE) Summit 2025.

Join us May 6-8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California where we will bring together community real estate professionals and practitioners interested, active, and expert in all aspects of commercial community spaces.

This interdisciplinary conference is for social purpose real estate leaders across North America; intentionally including various perspectives in the conversation. It is an opportunity to learn from peers and experts about best practices in development, ownership, and stewardship of social purpose real estate. Together we’ll establish and 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.

Learn more and register here.

Join us for part one of Real Estate Readiness, our free, three-part series designed for community organizations who are starting or considering a facility project. In this series you will learn how to assess your organization’s financial readiness, whether you should pursue leasing or buying, and how to get on the path to ownership. 

In this session, we will help you assess your organization’s financial readiness as we explore:

• How to use financial ratios to understand your organization’s financial health and stability
• How to look at the implications of occupancy costs on your budget and what you might be able to afford
• Strategies to establish a reserve to support a real estate project or other organizational innovation

These workshops are ideal for executive directors, senior managers, and board members who are looking for real estate solutions for their organization. Executive directors and board chairs are strongly encouraged to attend together. We recommend that you attend all three sessions of this series, but each workshop will still provide valuable information if attended on its own.

Register HERE.

Join us for part two of Real Estate Readiness, our free, three-part series designed for community organizations who are starting or considering a facility project.

This session will provide you with a decision-making roadmap on what space solution best meets your needs and will highlight:

• What you need to consider to get ready for leasing and buying
• What the capital and operating considerations are for each scenario
• Benefits and risks of leasing
• Benefits, responsibilities, and pitfalls of ownership

These workshops are ideal for executive directors, senior managers, and board members who are looking for real estate solutions for their organization. Executive directors and board chairs are strongly encouraged to attend together. We recommend that you attend all three sessions of this series, but each workshop will still provide valuable information if attended on its own.

Register HERE.

Join us for the final session of Real Estate Readiness, our free, three-part webinar series designed for community organizations who are starting or considering a facility project.

This session takes us deeper into what it takes to put your organization on the path to buying a building. Together, we will review:

• How to get ready to buy
• The real estate development process and timeline
• Financing options and strategies (putting together your capital stack)
• Legal structures for shared ownership
• Best practices for assembling your development and governance teams 
• Asset management and responsibilities of ownership

These workshops are ideal for executive directors, senior managers, and board members who are looking for real estate solutions for their organization. Executive directors and board chairs are strongly encouraged to attend together. We recommend that you attend all three sessions of this series, but each workshop will still provide valuable information if attended on its own.

Register HERE.