Greater Kansas City, MO

LEADERSHIP

Executive Director:
Julie Porter

Chair, Local Advisory Committee:
Lynn Craghead
US Bank
CONTACT INFORMATION
3535 Broadway
Suite 200
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Telephone: (816) 753-0055
Fax: (816) 753-6883
Website

Established in 1981

Achievements by the Numbers:

(LISC and Affiliates)
  • 3,491 homes and apartments
  • 920,366 square feet of commercial space
  • $115 million total investment
  • $256.8 million leveraged

Profile:

Greater Kansas City LISC’s mission is to attract, coordinate and provide resources to assist in transforming targeted neighborhoods into healthy, sustainable communities in partnership with their residents. We will accomplish this by:

  • Working with neighborhood residents to create and implement Quality-of-Life Plans to meet their economic, safety, housing and educational needs
  • Establishing partnerships, collaborations and strategic alliances to bring financial resources, policies and programs to achieve community improvement objectives
  • Measuring progress and communicating results so that stakeholders can benchmark and share successful strategies and tactics

Simply put, Greater Kansas City LISC is a community economic development engine that transforms once-abandoned neighborhoods across the bi-state core into healthy and sustainable communities.