Next month, LISC and Enterprise Community Partners will release “What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods,” an urgent collection of essays on the intersection of community development and climate resilience.

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.

LISC has been named a Gamechanger to Watch by CohnReznick in their second annual Gamechangers in ESG Awards program. LISC is one of seven organizations receiving this designation under the program, which recognizes U.S.-based organizations that are embracing environmental, social and governance principles to drive positive change.

What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods, due out in early 2024, will be a comprehensive collection of essays by experts dissecting the multiple challenges to communities on the frontlines of climate change – and how our sector can help those communities build resiliency. “When we develop climate solutions that respond to long-standing inequities, we can build a stronger, healthier, future for tens of millions of people and better protect the planet,” noted Michael T. Pugh, LISC CEO

LISC is bringing its successful Entrepreneurs of Color Fund (EOCF) to Miami, to help get growth capital to diverse small business owners who historically have been shut out of conventional lending streams. EOCF, which currently operates in 10 U.S. cities, will partner with four Dade County economic development nonprofits to connect Miami-area entrepreneurs to the dollars and technical assistance they need to flourish and create jobs.

In collaboration with the Walmart Foundation, LISC announced funding to help eight community-based nonprofits increase access to healthy, affordable food in under-resourced communities. Located primarily across the Southeast region, grantees will undertake efforts ranging from farmer-led urban agriculture to mobile food markets to the establishment of a community food policy council.