Reports and Presentations
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LISC LA and its regional partners explored ways to work together, and with the generous support of the Wells Fargo Open for Business Fund, launched the Together for LA (TFLA) Collaborative in July 2021. The founding members agreed to share information about their research, technical assistance programming, and as needed, originate joint programs to accelerate LA’s economic recovery. On its one-year anniversary, the Collaborative has released the 2022 TFLA Small Business Recovery Report and Resource Guide, capturing the top technical assistance priorities for LA's small business ecosystem, as well as the network of small business and nonprofit services in LA.
The Playbook can help funders, banks, policymakers, and legislators build their understanding of racial economic equity, and inform their programs and policymaking. It will give you strategies for how to discuss racial equity and social justice with funders and banks, and policymakers and legislators.
A new playbook from LISC and Next City offers a framework for paving equitable pathways to small business success, and lays out concrete strategies for supporting capital access, small business capacity, and commercial real estate.
Economic and community developers striving to nurture equitable small business ecosystems in underinvested places need support and proven strategies to do the work well. A new playbook for practitioners from LISC and Next Street offers guidance, best practices, and a platform for workshopping ideas. It also aims to spark conversation and brainstorming among partners and stakeholders engaged in this imperative work.
The 2021 Equitable Economic Recovery Toolkit provides local cities and municipalities with tangible steps to ensure that their COVID-19 economic recovery efforts are as equitable as possible, empowering those impacted most by the pandemic – particularly women and diverse individuals within small business communities.
We know that COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on many small businesses in our community. In a world where social distancing is the new norm, we encourage you to think outside the box, pivot your businesses plans, and develop new strategies to serve your clients. Most importantly we hope you stay connected to your communityyour neighbors, customers, and fellow businesses owners- we are all in this together!
Interested in partnering with health institutions to create career pathways in your community? Check out this playbook, an action-oriented guide to help improve economic mobility and health in neighborhoods.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC) program provides equity investments for small businesses. But only 6 percent of companies receiving SBIC capital are owned by women or people of color. How can we ensure that diverse small businesses have access to the funds they need to grow and succeed? What entrenched policies and practices in the venture capital sector need to change? This policy brief outlines a series of recommendations to make the SBIC program investments more diverse and inclusive.
LISC LA has developed a toolkit, with production funding from CIT Bank, that offers several affordable housing policy agendas and innovative solutions for local governments to consider. The toolkit includes seven immediate recommendations for mitigating the impact of the pandemic.
As the spread of COVID-19 continues to intensify, local governments will need to implement innovative and effective solutions for small businesses across LA and Orange Counties — especially for the people and businesses in historically under-invested communities that are likely to suffer disproportionately due to the pandemic.
LISC LA has developed a toolkit, with funding from Wells Fargo, that offers several small business policy agenda ideas and innovative solutions for local governments to consider. Compiled through in-depth research and reports from LISC LA’s dozens of community-based partners on the front lines of this crisis, the toolkit includes seven immediate recommendations for mitigating the impact of the pandemic.
While the world has changed and will no doubt require a tailored response, the needs of the most vulnerable remain the same. Our current strategic plan calls for safe, affordable housing, employment opportunities, and thriving small businesses in healthy neighborhoods.
In service to our mission to bring economic opportunity to low and moderate income communities, beginning in 2017, LISC LA served as the Chair of the City of Long Beach’s ‘Everyone In’ Economic Inclusion Initiative, an initiative designed to develop policy solutions that deliver economic opportunity to disadvantaged communities, with the ultimate goal of creating a local economy that includes and benefits every resident.
"Public procurement is one of the most powerful tools that local governments can employ to foster more equitable local economies." ~Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, LA LISC Executive Director
With the billions of dollars of public works projects slated for development in the next 10 years we are at a pivotal moment as a region. In our latest white paper, Supporting Economic Inclusion in Disadvantaged Communities: A Case for Inclusive Public Procurement Policies, you can read more about the opportunities we have to improve the current procurement system.
Developing Affordable ADUs Webinar
April 25, 2018, Webinar Hosted by LA-MÁS + LA LISC
Health, Wealth, and Housing: Promoting Cross Sector Collaborations for Equity Conference
October 4, 2017, Federal Reserve Bank
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- Measure of America - Presentation
* Measure of America: A Portrait of Los Angeles County REPORT - LA County Department of Public Health - Fireside Chat: Looking at the Future of Health Equity in Los Angeles County
- Blue Shield of California Foundation Presentation - The Intersection of Health, Housing, and Wealth: Lifting up Low to Moderate Income Families and Communities in Los Angeles County
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