Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
LISC Greater Kansas City is intentional in building and maintaining diversity and inclusion. We are committed to ensuring that equitable policies and practices are embedded throughout all our work. LISC Kansas City Staff works with a diversity, equity, inclusion and justice consultant who provides technical assistance to address diversity, equity, and inclusion in our everyday policies and within our 2020 to 2024 strategic plan. As an organization, we are committed to building and maintaining a diverse, effective, and inclusive Local Advisory Board (LAB). We are committed to ensuring that the ways in which LISC KC staff work with one another, their partners, and the communities they serve are inclusive, respectful, and that they are able to support LISC’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Affordable Housing
A safe, affordable home is one of the basic requisites of life—a key to individual and family health, family wealth, economic stability, and wellbeing, and is the foundation for sustainable, economically vibrant and diverse neighborhoods. [...]
Financial Stability
Healthy, sustainable communities are made up of people who have living wage jobs and feel confident about their economic futures. LISC invests in helping people tackle all the facets of financial life. [...]
Our Stories
Community Services League & Hawthorne Place: A case study of holistic stability through housing and savings
In 2017, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) reached out to LISC Greater Kansas City and Community Services League (CSL) to help manage an innovative program at Hawthorne Place. Hawthorne Place Apartments (HPA) is an affordable housing development owned and managed by POAH located about 30 minutes outside downtown Kansas City.
Community Wise Podcast: Mental Health Month Spot Lighting The Five Social Determinants of Health
This month’s Community Wise podcast is about the social determinants of health and mental health. LISC KC’s Holly Long sits down with Dr. Denise Dowd, a physician in the Division of Emergency Care of the Children’s Mercy Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The two will discuss the "Five Social Determinants of Health,” the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. These social determinants are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Together, Holly and Dr. Dowd will examine how these forces and systems include economic policies, social norms, racism, and housing – and if there are any solutions.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Offers Financial Literacy Opportunities for Youth
Financial education is an important component to building community wealth. The Federal Reserve System has three primary functions: to conduct monetary policy, supervise and regulate financial institutions and support the payments processes. Through those functions, the organization is able to further promote stability.