Recent News & Stories
Investing In A Future For Us All: LISC’s 2023 Annual Report is here!
It was a year of new leadership, new vision and renewed commitment. We invested an extraordinary $2.4 billion and doubled down on our work to create affordable housing, catalyze financial opportunity and promote climate resiliency. And so much more.
Bloomberg Spotlights MacKenzie Scott’s $65 Million Donation to LISC
An article in Bloomberg highlights MacKenzie Scott’s recent unrestricted grant-making to nonprofits, including a $65 million gift to LISC. Unrestricted gifts like this, in addition to Scott’s 2020 donation of $40 million, allow LISC to intensify and build upon its work with a more flexible and innovative approach. As our CEO Michael Pugh noted to Bloomberg, “the ability to have unrestricted giving like this frankly allows us to unlock and tap into the American Dream for everyday Americans across our country.”
Supporting Pathways to a Strong Financial Future: Q+A with Allianz Life’s Kenna Poppler
Kenna Poppler of Allianz Life understands the power of LISC’s Financial Opportunity Center® model and how it helps strengthen the financial futures of individuals and families across the Twin Cities. Since 2022, Allianz Life’s support has helped pave a path to sustainable financial and career success for nearly 3,000 people. Learn why working with LISC Twin Cities to reduce barriers to economic inclusion is so important to Allianz Life, and to Poppler.
Rising to the Challenge in 2021
View our online event celebrating 24 Years Working in Duluth - Rising to the Challenge
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Meet Microgrant Recipients: Janessa Lott & Ray Moore
Building Healthy Communities Award - Featured Project: Decker Dwellings
What's Happening in Duluth
Click Image to View 2021 Video: The COVID-19 pandemic brought many new challenges to our way of life -- changing the way we work, interact with others and learn. LISC Duluth and partners rose to the challenge to address inequities in health, wealth and education through digital inclusion and access. [...]
Opportunity Zones
Duluth Opportunity Zones Portal
Explore our new portal to learn more about Duluth's zones and the Opportunity Zones incentive. [...]
We Are in the Zones
Find our how LISC is working in Opportunity Zones across the country [...]
Resources
Get the latest tools and information related to Opportunity Zones. Including federal and state resources [...]
Opportunity Zones 101
Not sure what Opportunity Zones are? We've compiled frequently asked questions on design, timeline and impact [...]
About Duluth LISC
Duluth LISC is one of 31 local offices of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national nonprofit community development organization and CDFI. Overall, LISC has invested $17.3 billion in neighborhoods and rural communities across the United States.
We combine corporate, government and philanthropic resources and have invested $90 million, leveraging $302,331,771 million in Duluth to develop or preserve 1,684 units of housing, created 186 new child-care spaces, 1,553 new jobs. Duluth LISC works to see people and places prosper by addressing comprehensive revitalization, affordable housing development and preservation, and building the capacity of local community development organizations to see neighborhoods are places of choice and opportunity to all. Learn more.