LISC Resource Library

Restaurant Toolkit

The first two years of the pandemic have required more flexibility and innovation within the restaurant industry than ever before. A new toolkit from LISC – developed in partnership with Uber Eats, Visa and Streetsense – offers restauranteurs some tips for tackling the wide range of situations they come across, especially in the current climate.

Equitable Pathways to Small Business Recovery: An All-Hands Approach

Equitable Economic Recovery: A Toolkit for Local Governments

The 2021 Equitable Economic Recovery Toolkit outlines how local governments can effectively use their resources to support economic development in communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using Non-Congregate Shelter to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19

National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Alliance to End Homelessness and the National League of Cities co-hosted a webinar to help housing practitioners and advocates understand how to use the benefits to set up non-congregate shelter programs.

Securitization for Social Innovation

A LISC white paper looks at the opportunities, challenges and next steps needed to launch commercial intermediation and create a secondary market for CDFI assets—so that more high-impact capital can flow to communities.

Virtual Community Engagement

Several new resources are aimed at helping people and institutions foster community engagement, even when it’s not possible to convene people face-to-face. The LISC Institute has rounded a few of them up in this article.