AmbitioUS is a time-limited initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI). It uplifts alternative economies that expand equitable access to ownership, resources, and opportunities; strengthen collectivization and community self-determination; and create the conditions for all communities to thrive socially, financially, creatively, and culturally.
ABOUT AMBITIOUS
We exist to reimagine how capital shows up in the lives of artists, culture-bearers, and the communities they sustain.
We pair catalytic resources with relationship infrastructure, strengthening community-led and governed models, elevating the stories beneath the numbers, and building the tools, practices, and partnerships that help local economies take root, stabilize, and scale.
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Show me your investment terms, and I’ll show you the soul of your capital
How do artists build an economy that works for everyone?
EB PREC Breaks Rocks: A Celebration to Preserve and Restore Esther’s Orbit Room in West Oakland
In early December 2025, funders, organizations, creatives, and longtime West Oakland community members gathered at Esther’s Orbit Room—EB PREC’s pilot mixed-use project—for a ceremonial rock-breaking to mark the start of its restoration ahead of construction beginning in January 2026.
Reimagine Possibility -Boston Ujima Project’s Assembly of Black Possibilities in Chicago
After a learning journey studying cooperative systems in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna and Spain’s Basque Country, the CCI–AmbitioUS team landed in Chicago for Boston Ujima Project’s Assembly of Black Possibilities, a biennial gathering of solidarity-economy practitioners and communities of color.
