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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 …