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3.13.2024 -

LISC Named One of ImpactAssets 50 Emeritus Awardees for 2024

LISC has once more been named Emeritus Impact Manager for the ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50), a who’s-who of fund managers dedicated to creating positive social and environmental impact. The IA Emeritus category represents impact fund managers who have been on the IA 50 for at least five years. LISC is one of ten community development financial institutions (CDFIs) that were selected for this year’s IA 50, reflecting the critical role CDFIs continue to play to build more inclusive and equitable communities.

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1.26.2024 -

National Equity Fund Announces Nearly $2 Billion in Affordable Housing Investments for 2023—a Record

NEF, one of LISC's affiliates, invested a record $1.43 billion in Low Income Housing Tax Credit production, including $70 million in dedicated funding for developers of color, creating or preserving an additional 11,100 affordable homes nationwide.

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1.25.2024 -

New Study Tracks Significant Growth in Tax-Exempt Bond Financing for Charter Schools

LISC’s charter school finance team analyzed the full range of charter school bond issuance from 2015-2022, building on three prior reports that catalogued the history of the sector. “With public charter schools now educating more than 3.7 million students nationwide, and against the backdrop of unprecedented learning loss stemming from the pandemic, preserving dollars to invest in core academic programs is of heightened importance,” the report states.

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12.14.2023 -

Gustavo Quiroga Named New LISC Boston Executive Director

With deep experience in real estate, economic development and sustainability initiatives, Quiroga will build on LISC’s 40 years of work in Boston to expand community investment strategies and drive gains in underserved neighborhoods.

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11.29.2023 -

Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino Tequila Teams Up with LISC for New Round of Grants to Fuel Growth for Black and Latinx Entrepreneurs

Being a successful entrepreneur is hard if you can’t dream big. That’s why LISC, Gran Coramino and Kevin Hart are teaming up again to offer $10,000 grants to help fuel small business growth for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who face systemic obstacles to accessing capital.

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11.28.2023 -

The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation and LISC Award $1.275 Million to Upgrade Under-Resourced Community Sporting Spaces in 14 Cities and Towns

Every community deserves safe, quality sports facilities where youth and their families can play and socialize. Thanks to the Game On-Community Places to Play Initiative, a partnership of LISC and The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation, under-resourced neighborhoods in 14 cities and towns now have funding to improve their local youth sports facilities.