Place-Based Community Development

LISC prioritizes investments to organizations and institutions that have created a collective vision for their neighborhood, as formalized in a Quality-of-Life Plan or Great Places, and are actively working toward that vision.

Priorities:

  • Create, implement, and support quality-of-life plans
  • Expand state, federal, and philanthropic investments in neighborhoods
  • Strengthen partner organizations
  • Cultivate operating support for community development sector
  • Establish shared measurement to demonstrate neighborhood progress
  • Align and integrate LISC initiatives
  • Develop resident leadership
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Quality-of-Life Planning

Quality-of-Life plans are visions for a community's future created and owned by the community and have served as a guide for investments and actions

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Cultivating Communities

Seeks to partner with and empower communities of faith to lead economic mobility efforts in their neighborhoods

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Great Places

Great Places is a visionary community development project created to transform strategic places in Marion County neighborhoods into dynamic centers of culture, commerce and community, preparing Indianapolis for unprecedented success.

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Where We Work

We invest in overlapping program areas that reach into every corner of community life. Our approach is comprehensive, effective and—most important—rooted in what neighbors want for themselves, their families and the places they call home.

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Contact

Kelsi Coe, Senior Program Officer, Place-Based Community Development
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