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.

By Matt Josephs, Senior Vice President of Policy

LISC’s Matt Josephs reflects on this year’s State of the Union speech, taking particular note of the president’s comments about affordable housing, child care, climate solutions and community safety. "Taken as a whole, the speech offered a strong and hopeful statement of purpose,” Josephs said, adding that it will take sustained leadership at all levels …