Virginia

LEADERSHIP
Executive Director:
Candice Streett

Chair, Local Advisory Committee:
John Benesole,
CapitalOne
CONTACT INFORMATION
One Monument Avenue
413 Stuart Circle, Suite 300
Richmond, Virginia 23220
Telephone: (804) 358-7602
Fax: (804) 358-7603
Website

Established in 1990

Achievements by the Numbers:

(By LISC and Affiliates since inception)
  • 2,970 homes and apartments
  • 464,271 square feet of commercial space
  • $76.6 million total investment
  • $384.3 million leveraged

Profile:

Virginia LISC’s comprehensive community development strategy, the Neighborhoods Rising Initiative, connects Central Virginia’s low-income communities to the resources and expertise necessary to implement initiatives that can transform these challenged communities into great neighborhoods where people choose to live, work and play. The overall strategic focus of this program will be on three neighborhoods within Richmond and two neighborhoods in Petersburg. In 2010, Virginia LISC dedicated resources to the start-up of the Building Sustainable Communities Initiative in both Petersburg and Richmond. Both of these Sustainable Communities initiatives are in the final stages of creating residents’ Quality-of-Life plans, and smaller taskforce groups are being created to begin project implementation.

Through LISC and the Home Depot Foundation’s Healthy and Efficient Neighborhood Homes Partnership, two community development corporations received grant funding to cover the costs of incorporating green materials and techniques into the development of 290 affordable housing units and public green space in Richmond and Petersburg. To improve the quality of life in these communities, Virginia LISC teamed up with the NFL Youth Football Fund and others to renovate two youth football fields in central city neighborhoods in Richmond and Petersburg allowing for over 2,000 youth to use these fields.