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LISC names LA Times’ Baum to lead communications

2012-02-07T20:30:00+00:00

NY bureau chief takes over marketing for national community development group

LISC and IFF partner in KCPS repurposing initiative

2012-02-07T15:30:00+00:00

Greater Kansas City LISC and IFF Missouri have partnered together to ease the financial burden of repurposing Kansas City Public Schools’ shuttered schools.

GETTING IT DONE II: Building Strong Communities In A Changing World

2012-02-07T15:00:00+00:00

Amy Rankin: Public-private deals must be two-way street

2012-02-06T14:30:00+00:00

Amy Rankin has been working with community development partners and Jacksonville LISC for many years.

Assessing Section 4: Helping CDCs to Grow and Serve

2012-02-03T16:45:00+00:00

LISC, Enterprise, and Habitat commissioned Social Compact and Weinheimer & Associates to evaluate their use of HUD's Section 4 program, which supports training for community development corporation (CDC) boards and staffs, helps CDCs meet organizational needs (such as hiring new staff or improving financial management systems), pay for technical assistance (such as feasibility studies for new projects) and fund community projects. The program averaged just under $33 million a year between 2001 and 2009. Relying primarily on an online survey of 235 carefully sampled CDCs receiving Section 4 grants between 2001 and 2009, researchers tested whether the Section 4 theory of change was validated in practice. Did Section 4 investments produce observable organizational capacity growth? Was this growth linked to increased production of affordable housing and other community assets?

Gardens for Great, Green Communities

2012-02-02T20:45:00+00:00

Posted online in the Journal of the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development (Volume 2, Number 2 -- December 2011), this article from the LISC Green Development Center outlines the opportunities that urban gardening offers, with a special focus on examples of job-training and employment programs.

HUD awards $20 million in technical assistance to help local communities stabilize neighborhoods hard-hit by foreclosure

2012-02-01T19:00:00+00:00

New senior apartments in Petersburg celebrate opening

2012-01-31T14:00:00+00:00

Claiborne Square, the first state-of-the-art senior apartment complex in Petersburg, opens.

2010 MetLife Awards: Hawthorne EcoVillage

2012-01-26T15:00:00+00:00

CASE STUDY

Project for Pride in Living and Minneapolis Police Department
2010 MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Neighborhood Revitalization Award

Experts Online: Improving Health in Low-Income Communities: When Fresh Food's Not Enough

2012-01-20T17:45:00+00:00

DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative: Supporting Cradle-to-College Success

2012-01-13T18:15:00+00:00

DC LISC invites you to learn more about our Promise Neighborhood and designated Sustainable Community, Parkside-Kenilworth.

Building Sustainable Communities: A Super Bowl legacy

2012-01-11T16:30:00+00:00

LISC led a quality of life planning process in Indianapolis’ Near Eastside that is today most clearly exemplified by the Super Bowl Legacy Project. With LISC financial, technical, and management support for projects and programs in this community—as well as our long-standing relationship with the NFL Grassroots Program and the many other partners we helped bring to the table—this long struggling neighborhood has seen new energy and growth.

NEF closes $833MM in 2011 LIHTC investments

2012-01-11T14:15:00+00:00

Tax credit equity helps create jobs, spur community recovery.

Greater Kansas City LISC awards grant money to 6 organizations

2012-01-06T13:30:00+00:00

Greater Kansas City LISC awards grant money.

Kubic, Perucca are ready to listen, expedite the Paseo Gateway plan

2012-01-05T19:45:00+00:00

Kansas City LISC helps with the Paseo Gateway Transformation Plan.