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LISC CEO Joins NBA Roundtable on Racial Justice & Health Inequity
Earlier this month, LISC CEO and president Maurice A. Jones sat down with Caron Butler, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Mitch Landrieu for a timely discussion hosted by the NBA. The conversation focused on the social determinants of health, the racialized life expectancy gap and police brutality. During the virtual session, Jones said, “We cannot have racial reconciliation until we come together.”
In Forbes, Props for LISC’s Work With ESPN & Under Armour to Make Space for Play
An in-depth article in Forbes looks at how ESPN is putting its weight behind programs to boost sports and play in under-resourced places, and calls out LISC’s innovative RePlay partnership with ESPN and Under Armour. Since the collaboration began, we’ve helped 12 community organizations and schools revitalize play spaces and other facilities that promote physical and emotional wellbeing for hundreds of young people in Baltimore neighborhoods with high rates of poverty.
Fast Company: ‘26x26’ Will Boost Soccer, Kids, Communities
Soccer fans have been cheering LISC's $30 million collaboration with Lionsraw and American Outlaws to fuel soccer facilities and youth programming in underserved communities. But the effort to invest in 26 fields by the 2026 World Cup is about much more than scoring goals; the program is set to empower 1 million kids and improve the health of their communities as well. Fast Company takes an in-depth look.
Healthcare Partnerships That Help Heal People and Communities
In a blog for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Healthcare Quarterly, LISC CEO Maurice A. Jones makes the case for pioneering partnerships between healthcare organizations and community development, uniting to upend the roots of poor health. LISC’s collaborations with ProMedica and Bon Secours Health System, among other companies, are powerful examples of how our combined assets, knowledge and experience can begin to close America’s longevity gap.
The Power—and Primacy—of Partnerships
At a recent presentation about the role of cross-sector partnerships and community reinvestment sponsored by the Federal Reserve of San Francisco, LISC CEO Maurice A. Jones stressed the importance of tapping new relationships, and redefining long-standing ones, in order to effectively pursue our shared missions. He pointed to LISC's alliances with the health (ProMedica), sports (NFL) and tech (Facebook) fields as examples of partnerships that combine insight and investment to support the people and places we care about, and as a result, fuel a competitive economy.
Field of Dreams Come True
A 20-year partnership between LISC and the NFL Foundation has built or renovated more than 350 playing fields in communities across the country. An article in Next City reports on how these collaborations in the Twin Cities, host of Super Bowl LII, have nurtured and inspired generations of young people there—including St. Paul’s first African-American mayor.