Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s 2023 annual report; the Latino Equitable Development Collective awarded for excellence in community development; grants invested in Southwest projects; small business and youth grant opportunities and awardees; and more!

LISC and coalition partners will receive $2 billion from the National Clean Investment Fund; a spotlight on Community Connectors resident leaders; a new BDO partnership with the Asian American Chamber of Commerce; and the affordable housing Non-Profit Preservation Initiative concludes Year 1.

In a wide-ranging radio interview with Audacy's On the Block 94.7, LISC CEO Michael T. Pugh unpacks the ways CDFIs, from the most local to the largest, are so well poised to support financial mobility. He also praises the role of good financial advice, and forecasts how AI can create alternative methods for building credit.