Local control with the benefits of scale
The OppCo model allows local community development organizations to enjoy the benefits of scale while keeping control and assets within the communities they serve.
OppCo leverages the combined resources of its members to provide a level of administrative support and programmatic capacity that would otherwise be out of reach. Members remain as independent nonprofits with their own missions and assets. Members also retain local control of decision-making, programming, and budgeting.
Our shared services and access to OppCo’s deep pool of expertise helps members to strengthen the impact of their work, while avoiding the pitfalls that often accompany scale: decreased community accountability, and increased distance between community developers and local leaders. Learn more about our shared services.
Our services and programs are designed to amplify CDC outcomes:
Member benefits
Located across eastern Massachusetts , OppCo’s members benefit from the following:
More cost-efficient administration and programming
Shared back-office services and affordable housing-related programming, combined with a wealth of knowledge on best practices in community development, helps keep individual members’ costs down and results high.
Sustained local control while benefiting from scale
Members continue working with local residents, businesses, and municipalities while enjoying increased technical capacity in real estate development, asset management, and tenant services.High-capacity accounting and financial management
A finance team delivers financial analysis and advice for managing assets and investments and implements uniform internal controls, reporting, and policies and procedures.Full-service human resources help members navigate a constantly changing work world to remain an employer-of-choice.
Increased organizational sustainability
Investors and funders have high confidence in member ability to deliver results.
Greater capacity for learning
A data and learning team fosters a results-driven culture that provides members with proven methods for gathering and analyzing data directly from the community.Robust asset management ensures members’ portfolios remain vibrant assets for the community over the long term while providing important cash flow for operations.
Deeper real estate and program outcomes
Access to in-house expertise helps members to diversify pipelines and to expand the range and scale of real estate deals, from acquisition and rehab to homeownership and commercial development.
