Commercial Community Ownership as a Strategy for Just Development
This LISC report highlights commercial community ownership strategies and shares lessons and recommendations from groups working to preserve affordable space for small businesses and community organizations, build community wealth, and promote community-led economic development.
Improving Storefronts
This guide from LISC’s Economic Development team provides helpful tips on developing a storefront improvement program for place-based economic development. It includes local examples from LISC offices in Indianapolis, New York City and Virginia.
Pop-Up MKE Tool Kit
This tool kit is meant to be a resource for any person, neighborhood, organization, business, governmental agency, or collaboration interested in implementing a “pop-up” program, where entrepreneurs sell their products or services in a brick-and-mortar setting on a temporary basis.
Equitable Pathways to Small Business Recovery
A playbook from LISC and Next City that 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.
Tactical Guide: Inclusive Small Business Support
This guide from LISC and Bloomberg Associates outlines the challenges facing underserved businesses, the importance of supporting their recovery, and some key principles to guide City policies and programming
Webinar: Promoting Equitable Industrial District Recovery
This LISC Institute webinar with the LISC Research and Evaluation team features a panel discussion on how cities, intermediaries, community organizations, and philanthropy can support industrial district ecosystems in ways that advance equitable economic outcomes.