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Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity, good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide local community development organizations with:
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Loans, grants, and equity investments
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Local, statewide, and national policy support
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Technical and management assistance
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LISC is a national organization with a community focus. Our program staff is based in every city and many of the rural areas where LISC-supported community development takes shape. In collaboration with local community development groups, LISC staff helps identify priorities and challenges, delivering the most appropriate support to meet local needs.
Since 1980, LISC has marshaled more than $7.1 billion from 3,100 investors, lenders and donors. In over 300 urban neighborhoods and rural communities nationwide, LISC has helped 2,800 organizations build or rehabilitate more than 196,000 affordable homes and almost 27 million square feet of retail, community and educational space totaling $16.7 billion in development. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people have better lives and brighter futures.
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Critical to the redevelopment of any community is the revival of its commercial corridors, the so-called "main streets" of groceries, drugstores, coffee shops, restaurants, barbershops, hardware stores and services that frequently act as a neighborhood pulse. To create that pulse, business owners, residents, politicians and police must organize around a common vision for neighborhood business revitalization. LISC's Commercial Markets Advisory Service (CMAS) helps them do that. |
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indianapolis is the local office of a national organization that helps transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy ones - good places to live, do business, work and raise families. Locally, LISC has played an important role in community development, investing more than $90 million and leveraging more than $310 million in neighborhood development activity.
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