Kevin Hart, A Big Green Award + $28M to Nurture Local Groups

LISC and Coalition Partners Awarded $2 Billion via National Clean Investment Fund

LISC is one of five organizations leading?Power Forward Communities, a new coalition investing in green housing and jobs to support economic opportunity and climate resilience. Earlier this month, the EPA awarded the coalition $2?billion to implement a decarbonization strategy that also lifts up under-resourced communities—making housing more affordable, mitigating climate impacts and improving local health. Continue reading.

LISC Awarded a $28M HUD Section 4 Grant to Strengthen Local Nonprofit Housing Organizations Serving Under-Resourced People and Places Across the U.S.

LISC is among three of the community development and housing groups receiving a total of $83 million in Housing and Urban Development Section 4 capacity building funding. LISC will use its $28 million allocation to support 480 community development corporations nationwide. More.

Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino Tequila and LISC Disburse $1M to Seed Growth for Under-Resourced Small Businesses

With our partners Gran Coramino? Tequila and Kevin Hart, LISC has awarded $1 million?in grants to more than 100 Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, helping close wealth and opportunity gaps that limit their ability to grow. Meet our latest group of grantees. More.

Sharing the Story of Social Justice Investing

With the launch of the new book,?The Social Justice Investor, LISC’s CFO Christina Travers, one of the book's contributors, reflects on the ways that CDFIs have tapped the capital markets to deepen their impact—working to upend lingering misconceptions among some investors.?“Whether we are financing affordable housing, small businesses, health, safety, climate resilience, racial equity or jobs, we see financial performance and local impact as part of the same whole.”?More.

LISC + Foot Locker Foundation Announce Youth Development Grantees

Eighteen community organizations across 11 cities received grants from the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program. They will use the funding to offer a range of services for young people, including health and wellness, education and life skills, mentoring, and career development. More.

“A Gateway for Possibilities”: Resident Leadership and Community Ownership

LISC's Institute for Community Power has published a new Spotlight examining three leadership development programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners for distinct communities in different parts of the country: Training the Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia. Each group has leveraged the leadership program to inform and strengthen their work and, in turn, to serve their communities more effectively. Learn more.

LISC + Rocket Community Fund Jumpstart Asset Building Journey for Thousands

LISC teamed up with Rocket Community Fund to connect under-resourced communities to the coaching and financial products they need to accelerate their asset-building journey in the current economy.?Our initiative has helped nearly 2,100 people develop the financial know-how to make the most of their incomes and build savings at the same time. Meet three of them.

Federal Reserve System's Community Perspectives Survey

LISC is disseminating the Federal Reserve System's Community Perspectives Survey in order to report the economic conditions of low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities and the health of the organizations serving them.??Please help us by?taking this survey?to provide feedback to the Fed?so they can hear insights on community conditions from the people and organizations doing this work.?The survey will close on Friday, May 3rd.?Take the survey here.

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