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Media Contact:       

Terri Mueller

Director of Development & Public Relations
816.753.0055 x19
tmueller@lisc.org

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Greater Kansas City LISC Fact Sheet

Community Safety Initiative Fact Sheet

Lending & Development Fact Sheet

Lending Project Profiles

ArtsTech

Children's Campus of Kansas City

Mission Cliffs Development

North 6th Street, KCK

reStart Homeless Shelter

Shops of Blue Parkway Development

Southmoreland Condominiums

Upper Room Summer Academic Camp

NeighborhoodsNOW Case Statement - Phase II (2009-2011)

NeighborhoodsNOW Fact Sheet

NeighborhoodsNOW Phase I Summary Report

    Phase I Neighborhood Summary Reports (published Dec. 2008)

Downtown KCK

St. Peter/Waterway

Blue Hills

Scarritt Renaissance

Ivanhoe Northwest

Douglass-Sumner

National LISC Annual Report – 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006;  2005

Policy Fact Sheet

Newsletter archives

News Headlines

       2011

• Urban Farming Subcommittee Taps LISC's Expertise

• Rain or shine, LISC helps beautify urban neighborhood

• Urban Residents and Nat’l Experts Explore Health, Safety and the Built Environment

• Douglass-Sumner Redevelopment Begins wtih Construction of the First New Homes in 50 years.
• HELP network hopes to be a champion for Northeast -Kansas City Star, May 18
• Northeast HELP announces new neighborhood resources
• Community Leaders Explore Innovative Land Reuse
• 2011 NeighborhoodsNOW grants awarded:  More than $1 million distributed to local organizations
• A 30 Year Success Story: What's Next for LISC
• LISC seed grant jump starts Northeast HELP Network
• Youth Summit gives teens a voice and valuable tools
• LISC receives $70 million New Markets Tax Allocation
• Resident Makes Second Opportunity Count
• KCMO Mayoral Candidates Voice Ideas at LISC-Sponsored Forum

       2010

• Neighborhood Roll Call in Spanish helps build stronger community police relationship
• LISC Leads Community Effort to Solve Vacant Property Crisis
• LISC Surveys Landscape for Financing Charter School Facilities
• NeighborhoodsNOW attracts the attention of the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development
• LISC loan brings summer reading program to urban youth
• Greater Kansas City LISC Leads Community Effort to Solve Vacant Properties
• Network Backed Bill Facilitates the Rehab of Vacant Properties
• LISC Publishes Definitive Guide to Charter School Financing
• Police Athletic League Awarded $100,000 NFL Grassroots Grant
• Tax Credits Jump-Start Children's Campus Project
• Literacy Fair Celebrates Community
• New law accelerates efforts to rehab vacant properties
• Greater Kansas City LISC sponsors Vacant Properties Symposium
• Police and community groups to teach Blue Hills residents to prevent crime through design

       2009

• Video - Thank you to our partners, funders and friends for supporting us in 2009.

• New Markets Tax Credits Boost Children’s Campus of Kansas City - Tax Credit Allocation Is a First for Greater Kansas City LISC

• Police Teach Scarritt Merchants to Prevent Crime Through Design

• Kansas City Community Safety Partners Win National Award

• LISC Sponsors Vacant Properties Symposium

• LISC Leadership and Funding Lead to Successful Latino Merchant "Meet-and-Greets" with Police

• Unique Community Partnership Weatherizes Homes

• LISC loan gives highly successful Upper Room funds to operate and "room       to grow"

• Scarritt Renaissance Youth Art Club launched

• Innovative Loan Fund Available for Qualified Applicants

• Six neighborhoods receive federal funding to improve safety

• EPA and HUD Honor Blue Hills Community Services

• Greater Kansas City LISC State Policy Director blogs about her trip to the inauguration for 7th and 8th graders.

• LISC Applauds Housing Stimulus Package as Critical for Communities.

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