Eddie Fallon’s goals were clear when he came to LISC partner Volunteers of America-Texas: he wanted to secure a stable job and save for a deposit on a new apartment. With support from Wells Fargo through LISC, VOA coaches connected Fallon to job training, plus interview and resume prep services, that helped him land a job as a forklift operator. VOA also worked with Fallon to create a budget and savings plan. Today, Fallon is living in a new apartment and driving a new car that provides reliable transportation to a new, better-paying job as a repair technician. “Having an apartment and a car [in] little less than a year of saving makes me even more determined to keep working hard and save more.” LISC Houston
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Catalyzing Opportunity for All
About us
With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. Strategies We Pursue Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communities Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being Our products & services includes loans, grants, equity investments and on-the-ground experience in some of America’s most under served neighborhoods.
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http://www.lisc.org
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 201-500 employees
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- New York, NY
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- Nonprofit
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- 1979
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- community development, neighborhood development, economic development, affordable housing, financial stability, creative placemaking, community safety, school facitilies development, community development finance, lending, new markets tax credits, low income housing tax credits, and community engagement
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In a new op-ed in Smart Cities Dive, LISC President CEO Michael T. Pugh and Enterprise Community Partners President CEO Shaun Donovan weigh in on how climate and community development are fundamentally part of the same whole—the premise of the newly published What’s Possible book.
"We cannot allow climate change to continue to overburden under-resourced communities." Enterprise Community Partners CEO and President Shaun Donovan and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) President and CEO Michael T. Pugh write in Smart Cities Dive about how #WhatsPossible provides a blueprint for building sustainable neighborhoods now. https://lnkd.in/e9-ZFmhb
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Meet Jasmine Thai, a graduate of LISC Massachusetts's Bridges to Green Jobs program, supported by TD Bank! Read how the program helped Jasmine secure a new career within a growing industry and receive guidance from a financial coach, setting her on a path to financial stability: https://lnkd.in/eQkpERU8
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Before heading off for your holiday break, stay updated with the latest LISC news!
Celebrating Pride month, Juneteenth, and strides in community violence intervention
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We hope you had a fantastic #PrideMonth! Here are some readings to continue the celebration recognition of the LGBTQ communities impact on #communitydevelopment every day of the year: ✍🏾 LISC's Julia Duranti-Martínez discusses LGBTQIA liberation, land ownership, and community building highlights upcoming research on efforts nationwide to achieve community ownership: https://lnkd.in/eTjqt4HG 🏗 #LISCLending provided a $1.83 million loan to The Ali Forney Center in NYC to support the acquisition of a building that will serve as transitional housing for 18 homeless transgender young adults and to provide on-site programming and services. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ebcB42qS 🔦 We highlighted LGBTQ -owned businesses Thrive Cakery and Officiant NYC, recipients of LISC x Gran Coramino grants, and their ongoing efforts to support the LGBTQ community year-round. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eyGmPnhH Enjoy!
Pride Means Protecting LGBTQIA People, Places, and Histories | Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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“The fact that we are not paying interest to LISC is huge for us,” says Raghu Chejarla, who co-founded the St. Paul, MN-based IT consulting and staffing firm HighCloud Solutions with his wife Susie Ruddarraju. Learn how affordable capital from the Abbott-LISC Initiative to Support Diverse Businesses in Health is helping HighCloud better compete for supplier contracts: https://lnkd.in/eJYGFv-m
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Community Violence Intervention (CVI), which first emerged in urban areas, is now practiced across rural America with capacity-building support from LISC. Read how LISC's Safety Justice team and Rural LISC are investing in rural CVI groups working tirelessly to make their communities safer. https://lnkd.in/e9ptBYbr Mona Mangat, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
Pain and Progress Through a Rural Lens: Community Violence Intervention Beyond Urban America | Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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The Supreme Court ruling allowing jurisdictions to arrest unhoused people for sleeping outside is unjust and misguided. This will only worsen homelessness. We need additional resources for affordable housing and services, NOT criminalization of our most vulnerable people. Read more: https://lnkd.in/euZ4Ppg2
LISC Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson | Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) reposted this
Rhode Island is putting forth a bond for $120 million to provide funding for the creation of affordable housing. That bond issue will be voted on during the November 2024 election and hopefully will be passed by the voters. It's a great start at addressing the housing crisis in Rhode Island, but progress won't be made without everyone working together to achieve the goal. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our local economy. Read the Op-ed by LISC Rhode Island's Senior Executive Director Jeanne Cola thanking the advocates and State leadership for their work, and asking for others to step up and help. https://lnkd.in/dsh6m-Db
Rhode Island can’t solve this housing crisis without everyone’s help - The Boston Globe
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Black and Latino entrepreneurs often have less access to cash reserves, credit, and capital, and they’re likely to encounter even more challenges if they identify as LGBTQ . For #PRIDEMonth, we’re highlighting two grant recipients of LISC and Gran Coramino’s Coramino Fund, Thrive Cakery and Officiant NYC. Read more about how they’re supporting the LGBTQ community through their businesses. https://lnkd.in/eviwNuDs
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