With our partners Gran Coramino® Tequila and Kevin Hart, LISC has awarded $1M in grants to more than 100 Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, helping close wealth and opportunity gaps that limit their ability to grow. Here in Rhode Island, it was Thrive Cakery that we celebrate.

LISC Rhode Island began administering the SNAP E&T program more than a decade ago with only three participants. Ten years later, LISC has expanded the program by 500% and brought more than $8.5M to program providers.

LISC is among three of the country's largest community development and housing groups receiving a total of $83M in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 4 capacity building funding. LISC will use its $28M allocation to support 480 community development corporations nationwide, focusing on affordable housing access in historically disinvested communities. The grant …