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3.08.2023 -

Going Green: Community Development that Promotes the Wellbeing of People and the Planet

LISC is intensifying its work on and investments in climate resiliency and green projects, especially in disinvested communities that bear the brunt of climate change and ecological degradation. In fact, advancing environmental justice is mission-critical in LISC’s efforts to promote racial and economic equity in American cities, towns, and rural areas. Here's how we're doing it.

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6.21.2022 -

LISC Launches Pilot Program with Wells Fargo Grant to Help Small Businesses Build Disaster Resilience

Climate disasters—combined with the lingering economic stress of the pandemic—present immediate challenges to the survival of small businesses and the outlook for long-term recovery and growth. With the generous support of the Wells Fargo Foundation, LISC is developing our Small Business Resiliency Network to ensure businesses can innovate, expand, and thrive.

Building from the Bottom Up and the Middle Out: Biden Speaks to the Nation on Opportunity, Equity and Growth

Matt Josephs, LISC senior vice president for policy, takes a look at the president’s State of the Union address and what it might mean for efforts to bridge gaps in health, wealth and opportunity throughout the country.

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Community Wise Podcast: A Conversation with Michelle de la Uz

In this episode, LISC's Interim CEO & President, Lisa L. Glover, interviews LISC board member, Michelle de la Uz who is also the Executive Director of the Fifth Avenue Committee in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation highlights the work of the Fifth Avenue Committee around COVID, environmental initiatives and climate change, community advocacy, and affordable housing. It’s a great conversation that celebrates the importance of community partnerships in an ever-changing urban landscape.

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10.06.2021 -

“If You Don’t Adapt, You Die”: Rural LISC’s Caitlin Cain on the (Surprisingly Hopeful) Path Forward to Climate Resiliency

Underinvested communities in rural America are bearing the brunt of the many ways climate change is transforming environments, economies and daily life. In the wake of Hurricane Ida, and in advance of the 2021 Rural LISC Annual Seminar, Caitlin Cain, vice president and director of Rural LISC, explains how, as CDFIs, funders and community developers, we must radically shift our approach to investing for preparation and resiliency.

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6.11.2021 -

Nurturing Resilience on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast

In the wake of the pandemic and a series of devastating hurricanes, Rural LISC responded with relief grants to entrepreneurs and support for business development organizations, helping buoy a critical rural sector: Louisiana Gulf fisheries. Read on to learn about the people, groups and places touched by LISC's $3.2 million investment in nurturing resiliency for the heritage industry.