Contact Information
Kaiti Wang, Spark Opportunity Program Officer: kwang@lisc.org
General Inquiries: sparkopportunity@lisc.org
About Us
About the Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Together with residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. We invest in affordable housing, better schools, safer streets, growing businesses and programs that connect people with financial opportunity.
Since 1997, LISC has provided more than $365 million in loans, tax credit allocations, guarantees and grants to finance charter school facilities in low-income neighborhoods in 21 states across the country. Schools use this money to acquire, build, or renovate their facilities. LISC also provides technical assistance and promotes transparency of financing options to help school leaders secure affordable debt through resources like our SchoolBuild research portal.
About the Walton Family Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. The children and grandchildren of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. In 2018, the foundation awarded more than $595 million in grants in support of these initiatives. To learn more, visit waltonfamilyfoundation.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Pacific Charter School Development
Pacific Charter School Development was founded with the mission to create affordable, high-quality facilities for charter schools with high academic results. PCSD has over 15 years of charter school facilities experience across all phases of the development lifecycle – working with charter schools to acquire land, build school facilities, and match the project with affordable financing from a lender – all in the effort to bring more high-quality charter school seats to the markets that need them. PCSD has developed $828MM in total projects, leveraging philanthropy, private financing, and state funding to create 83 campuses serving over 37,000 students across multiple districts.