News Archives
2013
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Creating Resilient Communities
In a speech at the Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, discussed the growing need for greater collaboration across disciplines to help build healthier, resilient communities. Using illustrative examples of community revitalization, including several featured in LIIF’s recently published book Investing in What Works for America’s Communities, Mr. Bernanke…
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LIIF to Finance Child Care Small Business Growth with New Innovative Fund
In honor of the national Week of the Young Child, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is proud to announce a new source of capital to help child care centers and family child care providers expand the availability of quality early care and education in the San Francisco Bay Area. The $500,000 Kids Are Our Business Fund will …
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New Report: Filling the Equitable TOD Financing Gap
Today, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), Enterprise Communities Partners and Living Cities jointly released Filling the Financing Gap for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development, a new report that examines the opportunities and systemic challenges of advancing equitable transit-oriented development (TOD) across the country. The report features case studies from Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul and the San […]…
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New Report Says Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Creates Better Communities for All
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Investing in What Works: Los Angeles
On April 4, 2013, LIIF and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco convened a number of cross-sector stakeholders to discuss ideas and opportunities from the recently published book “Investing in What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place & Purpose”…
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Aligning Grants with Impact Investments Can Help Catalyze the Growing Impact Investing Field
Impact investing — investments intended to generate a blended value of social and financial return — continues to attract strong interest from both mainstream investors and traditional philanthropy. Even as foundations and philanthropists increasingly choose investments that advance their social mission, very few have developed a comprehensive approach that links impact investing and grantmaking into a single integrated strategy…
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Las Vegas Meeting Focuses on Transforming Businesses, Communities
Housing Partnership Network’s (HPN’s) Fall Member Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured a morning plenary session, “Transforming our Businesses and Our Communities,” that focused on the innovative community development strategies in the book Investing in What Works in America’s Communities, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and LIIF…
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Meals and Housing to Come Together in S.F.
LIIF joined house Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other dignitaries on January 24 as they broke ground on the new St. Anthony’s Foundation (SAF) dining room in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The new 40,000-square-foot dining room will enable SAF to serve more than 3,000 meals per day and expand its existing free clothing program, fresh food pantry and social work center…
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A Healthier America 2013: Strategies to Move from Sick Care to Health Care in Four Years
The Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), a national health advocacy organization dedicated to disease prevention, recently released A Healthier America 2013: Strategies to Move from Sick Care to Health Care in Four Years, which provides high-impact recommendations to prioritize prevention and improve Americans’ health. In the report, recommendations are paired with real-world examples of how prevention is working in communities across America…
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Northside: Spartanburg Follows Atlanta Redevelopment Model
A team of community stakeholders in Spartanburg, South Carolina are poised to begin a revitalization project aimed at transforming the city’s Northside neighborhood, one of the most troubled in the city, into a healthy and thriving community. City leaders intend to apply the lessons from Purpose Built Communities’ successful transformation of the East Lake neighborhood […]…
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