Welcome to LISC Jacksonville
What does LISC stand for?
LOCAL - LISC Jacksonville is dedicated to transforming local neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity - good places to live, work, do business, and raise a family.
INITIATIVES - We fund initiatives and projects that promote neighborhood revitalization, family wealth creation, and community advocacy.
SUPPORT - We support families, businessess, and organizations in Duval County by providing tools, resources, and funding.
CORPORATION - LISC Jacksonville one of 38 local offices of the national Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the largest community development organization in the United States.
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2022-2023 Annual Report
The LISC Jacksonville 2022-2023 report to the community includes people, places and perspectives representing a variety of important work aimed at improving Jacksonville’s most challenged communities and providing all residents the opportunity for their communities and their livelihoods to succeed. [...]
Jacksonville News
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.
New Headstone for Former Slave and Solider Part of Effort to Preserve African American Burial Sites
LISC Jacksonville, Jacksonville University (JU), and local historians and community leaders gathered to unveil a new headstone for Cpl. William Johnson, a formerly enslaved man who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
From Housing to Economic Mobility: Inside LISC’s Strategies for Change with CEO Michael T. Pugh
In a wide-ranging interview with Denver Fredericks, host of the Business of Giving podcast, LISC CEO Michael T. Pugh describes the pillars of LISC's work investing in communities and what's on the horizon for the CDFI under his leadership. "[We] can be a real catalyst for economic development in communities," says Pugh. "And frankly the best is yet to come."