What We Do
LISC invests in overlapping program areas that reach into every corner of community life.
Affordable Housing
Child Care & Early Learning
Creative Placemaking
Economic Development
Education
Income & Wealth Building
Health
Safety & Justice
Small Business
Sports & Recreation
Our approach is comprehensive, data-driven and—most important—guided by what community members want for themselves, their families and the places they call home. Learn more.
Latest Stories
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Pain and Progress Through a Rural Lens: Community Violence Intervention Beyond Urban America
Community Violence Intervention (CVI), an approach to quelling crime and supporting people who may be victims of, or likely to commit, violent crime ( [...]
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Our Results by the Numbers
Grants
$1.6 billion
$1.6 billion
Loans
$5.8 billion
$5.8 billion
Equity
$22 billion
$22 billion
Since 1979
$29.7 billion
total investment
$29.7 billion
total investment
leading to
$82 billion
in total development
$82 billion
in total development
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We Love Our Funders
Bringing Capital and Opportunity to Communities
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Project 10X
LISC’s biggest, most ambitious and most urgent in…
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What’s Possible
A new book on climate resilience & community deve…