LISC in the News

Click on the links below to view LISC Publications and News Articles featuring LISC

• Ribboncutting Ceremony at 1320 Mississippi Ave SE (video).  Mayor Gray recognizes LISC's role in helping to house the homeless and those with special needs.

• A 30-Year Success Story: What’s Next for “LISC”?
Neal Peirce / Apr 12 2011- Washington Post Writers Group

• Columbia Heights: 'A Rapid Renaissance'?... Not So Fast
A Perspective by Washington DC LISC

Long before Columbia Heights became the place that is being celebrated today, nonprofit organizations were hard at work, creating the environment that would bring investment back into the neighborhood.

Click on the link above to read the article that addresses a Washington Post article on the 'Rapid Renaissance' of Columbia Heights. The document is in PDF format.

• Stories from our 25th Year (pdf)

Read the impact of LISC investments made during 2007 and 2008.

• LISC's Definition of Sustainable Communities (pdf)

At LISC, we are dedicated to creating sustainable communities. This has a nice ring, but what exactly does it mean? The term "sustainable" is used across many industries and can mean different things. In recognition of the potential ambiguity surrounding this term, LISC has created a list of definable, specific characteristics. Not meant to be exhaustive, but rather a set of ideal traits that would be found in a sustainable community.

• Lessons Learned: Ten Years of Investing in Neighborhood Based Community Facilities (pdf)

For over ten years, Washington, DC LISC has been investing in the acquisition, expansion, renovation and/or leasing of space for childcare providers, arts organizations, health centers, youth and senior services organizations and community and family life centers.

Several years ago, we gathered our nonprofit partners to reminisce about the joys and pains of their community facilities projects.  Using their real life experiences we gathered a long list of “lessons learned”.  Read what they had to say.

•  The Homeownership Group Report (pdf)   

Learn how a consortium of nonprofit housing developers came to together to redevelop 78 vacant, scattered site properties into 105 for sale housing units with 2/3 of the units sold to low and moderate income buyers. LISC provided $4 Million in recoverable grants and loans.

• Washington Post: A Quiet Partnership is Beating Blight (pdf)
25 Sep 2005  - Columnist David Broder reviews LISC’s history and accomplishments during LISC's 25th year.

• A Conversation with Oramenta Newsome - Washington Business Journal

Oramenta Newsome, Director of Washington DC LISC was featured in the April 28-May 4, 2006 edition of the Washington Business Journal. She discusses her opinions on hot button issues and the current development taking place in the City at the time.