LISC Resource Library

Innovate, Create, and Elevate: Child Care as Infrastructure

On September 16 and 17, 2024, the LISC Child Care and Early Learning team held a Child Care is Infrastructure regional convening at historic Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, MO. Over 50 participants representing diverse geographies and backgrounds were in attendance, engaging in an immersive experience of expert perspectives, essential information, peer learning, networking & inspiration. Topics covered included funding opportunities through a federal and local policy lens, strategic partnerships, and infrastructure supply building strategies.

The Power of Arts and Culture: The Heart of Community Health, Revitalization, and Inclusion

A LISC report highlighting case studies from our work with four local community partners using the arts to strengthen community bonds, celebrate local culture while healing collective trauma, and fight displacement through creative economies.

Supporting & Empowering Consumer Packaged Goods Entrepreneurs – A Toolkit for Business Development Organizations

Supporting Business Development for Child Care Providers: A BDO Playbook

“A Gateway for Possibilities”: Resident Leadership and Community Ownership

In this Spotlight for the Institute for Community Power, we look at three leadership development programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners: Training the Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia. What follows is not a comprehensive evaluation of the programs. Instead, this is meant to serve as a jumping off point for further exploration, identifying some of the key themes and topics that emerged from interviews with participants and tracing some of the impacts the programs had both on participants and their communities.

Spotlight on Resident Voice and Community Ownership

Community development, at its core, helps residents create their own shared future. This concept of self-determination – also known as community ownership – is fundamental to LISC’s work, as we recognize that both our own investments and others from the public and private sector need to be directed by local voices. This Spotlight for the Institute for Community Power highlights contemporary efforts to advance community ownership by bringing residents together to elevate their voices and decision-making abilities. In it, we look at three programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners: Training for Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia.