Helping Neighbors Build Community Across Massachusetts
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) equips communities with the capital, strategy, and know-how to become places where people can thrive. Working with local leaders, we invest in affordable housing, health, education, public safety and employment – all basic needs that must be tackled so that progress in one area is not undermined by neglect in another.
As part of a national organization with deep local roots, LISC Massachusetts is uniquely positioned to share resources, best practices, and innovations with the communities we serve. We provide funding, financing, and technical assistance to community development corporations (CDCs), nonprofit developers, grassroots organizations, as well as policy and advocacy organizations throughout Massachusetts.
News
Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $16 Million to Decarbonize Affordable Housing
The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced the third round of funding awards under the Climate Ready Housing program. The program is led by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, in collaboration with Massachusetts Housing Partnership, MassHousing, and Local Initiatives Support Corporation Massachusetts (LISC MA).
LAC Spotlight: Lisa Joyner, TD Bank
LISC Massachusetts is grateful for the wonderful, tenacious, and visionary leaders that support our work through their role in our Local Advisory Committee (LAC). Through LAC Spotlights, we're featuring their leadership! Read the conversation with Lisa Joyner, Regional Community Development Manager at TD Bank and Chair of the LAC.
DBEDC and LISC Massachusetts Announce New Partnership on Green Jobs Training Cohort
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC) and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Massachusetts are excited to announce a new partnership aimed at creating career pathways in the growing green jobs market for Boston residents in underinvested communities. Building on LISC’s current Bridges to Green Jobs program, DBEDC will host a workforce training cohort in Boston in February 2025.
Doubling Down on Impact: MacKenzie Scott's $65M Award is an Opportunity for Deeper Local Impact
The $65 million MacKenzie Scott award represents a testament to the LISC model and our success driving impact in local communities. This gift also presents a unique opportunity for our local partners to recommit to our work, leveraging increasing national capacity for deeper local impact.
MacKenzie Scott Donates $65 Million to LISC
MacKenzie Scott, the prolific philanthropist, announced that she is donating $65 million to LISC, the largest contribution in our organization’s 45-year history. This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, which builds on a $40 million gift in 2020 that was used to seed programs that narrow gaps in health, wealth and opportunity, particularly for communities of color.
A Visit to Arlington, the Home of a Tiny House
Recently, the LISC AmeriCorps members and the LISC team attended a great monthly meeting at Housing Corporation of Arlington (HCA), where a LISC AmeriCorps member Jackson Hamilton presented his service in the beautiful community of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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