State Farm has committed a new $2 million, one-year grant to support affordable housing, small business, income and wealth building, and healthy food access. With the new grant, State Farm’s support for LISC now totals $155 million since 2000! We celebrate this renewed commitment by reflecting on our impact together over more than two decades.

In this economy, it takes creativity, collaboration, and patience to make affordable homeownership a reality. Those are precisely the qualities driving Core City, a LISC Toledo program that acquires, renovates, and sells vacant and blighted properties for homeownership. Learn how we’ve teamed up with Owens Corning to bring homeownership within reach for more Toledo residents.

LISC teamed up with Rocket Community Fund to connect under-resourced communities to the coaching and financial products they need to accelerate their asset-building journey in the current economy. Our initiative has helped nearly 2,100 people develop the financial know-how to make the most of their incomes and build savings at the same time. Meet three of them.

A dozen LISC offices work with TD Bank to create affordable housing in communities that need it most. In Upstate South Carolina, where our office opened in 2019, LISC benefits from the leadership of TD Bank’s John F. Verreault III, who chairs the Local Advisory Committee. In a new Q+A, learn why supporting affordable housing is so important to TD Bank, and to Verreault.

A healthy community isn’t just about access to high-quality, reliable health care. Individuals and families also need access to good jobs, opportunities to build wealth, and thriving, locally-owned businesses. Kaiser Permanente understands how economic factors can shape well-being, especially in communities of color that often don’t benefit from regional or national prosperity. Learn how LISC is collaborating with Kaiser Permanente to support locally-driven strategies that spark economic growth in under-invested places.

LISC is working with The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation to jumpstart youth sports infrastructure projects in communities where support and opportunity are scarce. In a Q+A with The DICK’S Foundation’s Kristen Garmey, we learn why improving athletic spaces for youth in under-resourced communities is so important to The DICK’S Foundation, and to Garmey.

Thousands of enterprises have used Verizon Small Business Digital Ready – a free resource Verizon developed in partnership with LISC – to gain the skills they need to grow and thrive in today’s digital economy. We’d like to introduce to you three of them.

LISC is working with Citi Foundation to make community development more diverse by tapping into the expertise of people who live in and look like the communities our industry serves. We're nurturing a diverse talent pipeline through initiatives that place HBCU students and AmeriCorps Economic Mobility Corps members in yearlong paid employment experiences with LISC and other community development financial institutions. Learn about the people and organizations we’ve impacted through this work.

LISC is working with Umpqua Bank to tackle the systemic roadblocks that prevent many communities of color and rural residents from buying a home. In a Q+A with Umpqua Bank’s Randy Choy, we learn why expanding fair access to quality homeownership opportunities is so important to the bank, and to Choy.

As Black Business Month comes to a close, we are celebrating the impact of our supplier diversity initiative with Abbott. Through the partnership, we connect business owners with the financial resources and advice they need to win contracts, hire more staff and fuel economic opportunity in the communities where they operate. To date, the LISC-Abbott initiative has invested $6.2 million in 19 small businesses and provided one-on-one coaching to 37 small businesses. Meet three of them.