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4.23.2024 -

Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino Tequila and LISC Disburse $1M to Seed Growth for Under-resourced Small Businesses

With our partners Gran Coramino® Tequila and Kevin Hart, LISC has awarded $1M in grants to more than 100 Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, helping close wealth and opportunity gaps that limit their ability to grow. Meet our latest group of grantees.

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4.04.2024 -

LISC and Coalition Partners Awarded $2 Billion via National Clean Investment Fund

LISC is one of five organizations leading Power Forward Communities, a new coalition investing in green housing and jobs to support economic opportunity and climate resilience. Today, the EPA awarded the coalition $2 billion to implement a decarbonization strategy that also lifts up under-resourced communities—making housing more affordable, mitigating climate impacts and improving local health.

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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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3.01.2023 -

LISC Announces 50 Small Business Grants Through The Coramino Fund, a Partnership With Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino® Tequila

How cool is this? Today we announce the 50 Black and Latinx-owned small businesses that received $10,000 grants from The Coramino Fund, a grant program of LISC and Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino™ Tequila. The program provides vital resources to entrepreneurs who have historically faced racial barriers to capital that have limited their ability to grow. Meet the 50 grant recipients!

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2.07.2023 -

LISC & Uber Eats Announce Black Restaurant Fund to Expand Access to Growth Capital

LISC and Uber Eats are teaming up on a new effort to address the racial capital gap that affects many Black restaurant owners, particularly in economically disadvantaged communities.

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12.15.2022 -

Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, & Dwyane Wade’s Social Change Fund United Teams Up with LISC

Together with the Social Change Fund United (SCFU), LISC is providing grants to Black-owned businesses in six cities to help spark economic growth and put a spotlight on the challenges that Black entrepreneurs face when seeking capital for expansion. Each small business is receiving up to $10,000 as a part of SCFU’s ongoing Season of Giving holiday initiatives.