Bay Area | LISC Bay Area

Boot Camp for Non-Profits Combating Homelessness Across CA

As California's homelessness & affordable housing crisis deepens, LISC's Housing Development Training Institute (the only program of its kind) readies project managers to help close the housing gap across California. [...]

Investments in small business revive whole neighborhoods

In an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, LISC CEO Maurice Jones and program vice president Joseph Horiye describe how local entrepreneurship is benefiting the long-disinvested Bayview neighborhood. [...]

Rehabilitation of ex-offenders helps the entire community

An Op-Ed in the East Bay Times by Bay Area LISC's late Executive Director, Margaret Gee, highlights the importance of community based support for the rehabilitation of the formerly incarcerated. [...]

What is LISC?

We are LISC—the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. It may be a mouthful, but our name does, in fact, say it all. We are a national organization with a grassroots focus. Bay Area LISC is one of 31 local LISC sites throughout the country, and is dedicated to helping community residents transform disinvested Bay Area neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity - good places to work, do business, and raise children.

Bay Area LISC helps make neighborhood dreams a reality by working with cities, residents, nonprofit organizations, and key public and private partners to build healthy communities by creating affordable housing, supporting local neighborhood economic development, and by helping families reach financial stability through integrated financial services and support.