Our Mission

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families. LISC is the one of the largest community development organizations in the country and the largest nonprofit community development financial institution. We have been supporting communities for more than 40 years. LISC is committed to racial equity and greater access to opportunity in low-wealth communities, many of which are Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. We recently relaunched the Puget Sound Office to advance housing, economic and racial justice by accelerating affordable housing, economic development, and wealth building opportunities.

Strategies We Pursue

• Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places
• Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together
• Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities
• Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communitiea
• ​Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being

LISC grounds this work in their commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice by acknowledging that poverty and other forms of inequity and injustice that LISC works to help redress are largely rooted in this country’s historic and systemic racism, as well as in other forms of discrimination. Pursuing our mission demands that we conceive and implement every aspect of our work through the lenses of equity and anti-racism. LISC is wholly committed to living this approach.

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