News tagged
as 'Community Development'
2013
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The New Era of Public Innovation: Part II
In a recent op-ed published in the Huffington Post, Ben Thornley, Director of Pacific Community Ventures, outlined the links between ideas that emerged from the Schwab Foundation’s Social Innovation Summit and LIIF’s recently released publication, Investing in What Works for America’s Communities. Noting the need for evidence-based innovation, Mr. Thornley suggests the international development community…
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Fresh Food Hub Begins Construction on Broad Street
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Tax Credits Spur Investment in Distressed Communities
Last month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund announced the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) authority for investments totaling $3.5 billion to community development organizations nationwide. In a recent news column for HispanicBusiness.com, LIIF was featured as one of 85 organizations that received awards in the 2012 round …
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Modern-day Robin Hood applies business skills to philanthropy
In a new segment on 60 Minutes, Paul Tudor Jones, founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, shares his unique journey of establishing his charity and its focus on early education as one of its primary missions. The segment features a number of LIIF borrowers, including Part of the Solution and Uncommon Schools…
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LIIF Awarded $55 Million New Markets Tax Credit Allocation
Today, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund announced that the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) has been awarded $55 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation. Nationally, the CDFI Fund awarded $3.5 billion in NMTC allocations to 85 organizations. This is LIIF’s sixth consecutive award and brings LIIF’s total NMTC…
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85 CDEs Receive NMTC Awards
LIIF was selected as one of 85 organizations nationwide to receive an allocation of New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) from the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Selected from a pool of 282 applicants, LIIF received an allocation of $55 million, its sixth allocation award. LIIF was featured…
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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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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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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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