Technical Resources
In addition to providing financing, LISC offers extensive technical assistance and training to CDCs. The goals of this assistance include:
-
improving
community development project output;
- creating
long-term sustainability of community development projects;
- strengthening community development organizations.
LISC provides technical assistance to
CDCs on each project to guide them through the pre-development, development and
management phases of projects including:
financing, site acquisition, permitting, construction and asset
management. This project-based assistance improves the CDC's ability to
successfully complete the project and manage assets for the long-term benefit of
the community. LISC also assists CDCs in defining development strategies that
encompass multiple projects in a neighborhood.
LISC provides training through the Connecticut Community Development
Institute, a partnership among LISC, the Connecticut Housing Coalition and
the Connecticut Housing Investment Fund. Over the past three years, LISC has
offered CDCs training in a variety of housing and community development topics
including: housing finance, site assembly, managing partnerships, neighborhood
revitalization, multi-family development homeownership development, strategic
planning and business planning. These courses have reached over 100 participants
from 40 different organizations.