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The LISC Resource Library is the place to go for community leaders interested in growing an equitable small-business ecosystem and for small business owners looking to learn about new opportunities.
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Resources for those interested in growing an equitable small-business ecosystem.
Featured resources
A playbook from LISC and Next City offers a framework for pursuing equitable pathways to small business success, and lays out contextualized strategies related to capital access, small business capacity, and commercial real estate. Two of its authors explain why that’s so important.
By presenting early outcomes and lessons from the field, this brief from LISC and Brookings, seeks to provide guidance for cities looking to enhance opportunity in their disinvested neighborhoods and test a new kind of economic inclusion rooted in the knowledge, strength, and collective power of community.
A study of economic development strategies that establish manufacturing entrepreneurial ecosystems.